Country Canada Post office established 1879 Town Incorporated 1911 Population 610 (2006) Province Saskatchewan | Region Saskatchewan Village Incorporated 1898 Time zone CST Local time Tuesday 10:14 AM Area code 306 | |
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Duck Lake is a town in the boreal forest of central Saskatchewan, Canada. Its location is eighty-eight kilometres north of Saskatoon and forty-four kilometres south of Prince Albert on highway 11, in the rural municipality of Duck Lake. Immediately to the north of Duck Lake is the south block of the Nisbet Provincial Forest.
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Map of Duck Lake, SK, Canada
It is also the administrative centre of the Beardy's and Okemasis Cree First Nations band government.
Duck Lake was home to one of the last operating Residential Schools in Canada, St. Michael’s Indian Residential School (Duck Lake Indian Residential School), which closed in 1996.
History
Duck Lake was one of the 5 Southbranch settlements settled by French speaking Métis from Manitoba in the 1860s and 1870s. A Roman Catholic Mission was established in Duck Lake in 1874 by Father André O.M.I. and by 1888 the village had a school, a post office (called Stobart), a flour mill (gristmill) and a trading post. From 1882 to 1905 Duck Lake was within the District of Saskatchewan of the North-West Territories.
In 1885, Duck Lake was the site of the Battle of Duck Lake, a conflict between Métis warriors and the Government of Canada, at the start of the Northwest Rebellion. At Duck Lake, the Prince Albert Trail, which ran from Regina to Prince Albert, crossed the Carlton Trail and it marked the halfway point between the Métis headquarters at Batoche and the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Carlton.
Historic Carpenter Gothic style All Saints Anglican Church built in 1896 is a municipal heritage site. Its historic cemetery contains the graves of some of those who fought in the Battle of Duck Lake as well as those of other pioneers of the community.
The 1973 western Alien Thunder was partially filmed here.