Duck Lake, Saskatchewan
{{Short description|Town in Saskatchewan, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
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| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Donna Piche
| leader_title1 = Town Administrator
| leader_name1 = Michelle Zurakowski
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| leader_name2 = Duck Lake Town Council
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| established_title = Post office established
| established_date = 1879
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| established_date2 = 1898
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Highway 212
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| website = [http://www.ducklake.ca Official Site]
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Duck Lake is a town in the boreal forest of central Saskatchewan, Canada. Its location is {{convert|88|km}} north of Saskatoon and {{convert|44|km}} south of Prince Albert on Highway 11, in the Rural Municipality of Duck Lake No. 463. Immediately to the north of Duck Lake is the south block of the Nisbet Provincial Forest.
The First Nations people are Cree and the band government of the Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation is located here.
Duck Lake was home to one of the last operating schools in the Canadian Indian residential school system, the St. Michael's Indian Residential School (Duck Lake Indian Residential School), which closed in 1996.
History
Duck Lake ({{langx|fr|Lac-aux-Canards}}) was one of the five 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, one of several districts of the Northwest Territories.{{Citation
|publisher = Henry Thomas McPhillips
|publication-place = Prince Albert, NWT
|title = McPhillips' alphabetical and business directory of the district of Saskatchewan, N.W.T.: Together with brief historical sketches of Prince Albert, Battleford and the other settlements in the district, 1888 (pages 93-97)
|year = 1888
|url =http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1740/115.html
|author = Henry Thomas McPhillips
|publication-date = 1888
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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 North-West 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.{{cite web
| title =Canadian Plains Research Center Mapping Division
| url =http://esask.uregina.ca/management/app/assets/img/enc2/PDF/51C276D2-1560-95DA-430F6CC3E32921701.pdf
| access-date =13 Sep 2013 }}
File:Duck Lake Interpretive Centre.jpg
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.[http://www.historicplaces.ca/visit-visite/com-ful_e.aspx?id=4060 Canada's Historic Places: All Saints Anglican Church]
The 1973 western Alien Thunder was partially filmed here.{{cn|date=July 2024}}
Demographics
In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Duck Lake had a population of 579 living in 202 of its 232 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:579-569}}|569|1| % = per cent}} from its 2016 population of 569. With a land area of {{cvt|2.38|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|579|2.38|km2|prec=1}} in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Duck%20Lake&DGUIDlist=2021A00054715062&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1&HEADERlist=0 | title=Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population Duck Lake, Town (T): Saskatchewan [Census subdivision] | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=April 1, 2022}}
{{canada_census
|location = Duck Lake
|2021_population=579 | 2021_pop_delta=+1.8 | 2021_land_area=2.38 | 2021_pop_density=243.3
|2021_median_age=36.0 | 2021_median_age_m=35.2 | 2021_median_age_f=36.4
|2021_total_pvt_dwell=232 |2021_occ_pvt_dwell=202 |2021_mean_hh_income=65,500
|2021_geocode=2021A00054715062 | 2021_access_date=2023-10-19
|2011_population=577
|2011_pop_delta=-4.6
|2011_land_area=2.73
|2011_pop_density=211.6
|2011_pop_rank=
|2011_median_age=41.2
|2011_median_age_m=41.1
|2011_median_age_f=41.2
|2011_total_pvt_dwell=227
|2011_total_pvt_dwell_usual=202
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|2011_access_date=2013-09-25
|2006_population=610
|2006_pop_delta=-2.2
|2006_land_area=2.86
|2006_pop_density=213.5
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|2006_median_age=33.8
|2006_median_age_m=33.0
|2006_median_age_f=34.3
|2006_total_pvt_dwell=254
|2006_total_pvt_dwell_usual=216
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|2006_access_date=2013-09-25}}
Notable people
- Gabriel Dumont - Leader of Métis forces in the North-West Rebellion 1885.
See also
References
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Further reading
- Barnholden, Michael. (2009). Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters' Reports from the War of 1885. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks. {{ISBN|978-0-88922-621-0}}.
External links
- {{official website|http://www.ducklake.ca/}}
{{Geographic location
| Northwest = Shellbrook
| North = MacDowall
| Northeast = Red Deer Hill
| West = Titanic
| Centre = Duck Lake
| East = St. Laurent Gradin
| Southwest = Waldheim
| South = Rosthern
| Southeast = Batoche
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{{Subdivisions of Saskatchewan|towns=yes}}
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Category:Duck Lake No. 463, Saskatchewan
Category:Towns in Saskatchewan