Pinehouse

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|native_name = ᒥᓇᐦᐃᑯ ᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᕽ
minahiko-wâskahikanihk

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|leader_name2 =Gary Vidal

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| title = Population and dwelling count amendments, 2016 Census

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| access-date = 2013-10-02}}{{Cite web

|last=Government of Saskatchewan

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|title=Municipal Directory System (Northern Village of PINEHOUSE)

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}}{{cite web

|title = Directory of Communities by Saskatchewan Electoral District

|url = http://www.elections.sk.ca/resources/directory-of-communities-by-saskatchewan-electoral-district.pdf

|access-date = 2013-10-03

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Pinehouse ({{langx|cwd-Cans|ᒥᓇᐦᐃᑯ ᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᕽ|minahiko-wâskahikanihk|translation=at pine house}}) is a northern village located in the boreal forest of Saskatchewan on the western shore of Pinehouse Lake within the Canadian Shield.

Travelling by road from Pinehouse, the Key Lake mine is {{convert|223|km}} north, Prince Albert is {{convert|346|km}} south, La Ronge is {{convert|214|km}} east and Beauval, the closest community, is {{convert|107|km}} west. Highway 914 passes through the community and Pinehouse is the only established community along this road.

There were 1,074 residents in 2016. Cree was the mother tongue of 630 of the residents in 2011.{{cite web|title=Canada Census 2011|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=4718065&Geo2=PR&Code2=47&Data=Count&SearchText=Pinehouse&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=4718065&TABID=1|access-date=2013-01-31}} The mayor of this predominantly Cree community is Mike Natomagan.{{cite web|title=Municipal Directory System (Northern Village of PINEHOUSE)|url=http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/muniDetails.aspx?cat=5&mun=2619|access-date=2013-01-31 }}

History

There was a North West Company post and a rival post near the mouth of the Tippo River called Lac des Serpents (Lake of Serpents or Snake Lake) in 1786.{{cite web

| title = ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SASKATCHEWAN

| url =http://www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/sk-north.html#serpent

| access-date =2013-01-31 }}

The Hudson's Bay Company had a post at the north end of Pinehouse Lake called the Souris River Post. It was located about {{convert|2|km}} west of the mouth of the Belanger River once known as the Souris River. Most of the residents of this settlement which numbered about 100 people in the 1920s and 1930s eventually moved to Pinehouse.{{cite book | last =Marchildon| first = Greg |author2=Robinson, Sid | title = Canoeing the Churchill: A Practical Guide to the Historic Voyageur Highway | publisher = University of Regina | year = 2002 | location = Regina | page = 203 | isbn=0-88977-148-0}} The Souris River Post near Sandfly Lake operated from 1875 to 1939. The Census of 1906 called this settlement then numbering 73 people Souris River on the Churchill.{{cite web

| title = Census of 1906 (page 32)

| url =http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/census/SaskatchewanNorth-1-32.html

| access-date =2013-01-31 }}{{cite web

| title =Census 1906 (History of La Loche)

| url = https://sites.google.com/site/portagelaloche/home/census-1906

| access-date =2013-02-03}}

Missionaries first visited the Dene population of Pinehouse Lake in 1899. A smallpox epidemic killed around half of the population of the area in 1900-1901. Some survivors moved up the Churchill River towards Patuanak and downriver to Stanley Mission further depleting the area population.{{cite book

| title =CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan by David M. Quiring

|isbn = 9780774809399| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ljmwhoETEKQC&q=PINEHOUSE+LAKE+INDIAN+SETTLEMENT&pg=PA51

| access-date =2013-01-31 |last1 = Quiring|first1 = David M.|year = 2004}}

The 1906 Canada Census uses the name Serpent Lake on the Churchill to describe the community that then had about 11 people which included the family of Samuel and Veronique Misponass.

A townsite was established in the 1940s and a Roman Catholic church (St. Dominic) was built in 1944 followed by a store and in 1948 a school. In 1954 the community was renamed Pinehouse Lake.

Pinehouse was originally named Snake Lake (kinêpiko-sâkahikan in Cree{{cite web

| title =Main Street, Saskatchewan (Pinehouse Lake)

| url = http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/mainstreet/pinehouselake.html

| access-date =2013-01-31 }}).

Although officially named Pinehouse, numerous official sources including the official road map of Saskatchewan issued by the province, identifies the community by the name Pinehouse Lake.

Eighty houses were built between 1967 and 1980 and Pinehouse was connected to the power grid in 1984 replacing a diesel generator set up around 1970. The first road to the community was built from Highway 2 in 1977.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pinehouse had a population of {{val|1013|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|266|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|302|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:1013-1074}}|1074|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|1074|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|6.77|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|1013|6.77|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000203&geocode=A000247 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=March 27, 2022}}

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|footnote ={{cite web | url=http://www.stats.gov.sk.ca/stats/population/SaskCensusPopulation8106.pdf | title=Saskatchewan Census Population (Northern Hamlets and villages) | access-date=12 July 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924105944/http://www.stats.gov.sk.ca/stats/population/SaskCensusPopulation8106.pdf | archive-date=24 September 2015 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web

| title = 2011 Community Profiles

| work = Statistics Canada

| publisher =Government of Canada

| url =http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E

| access-date = May 29, 2012}}

|1986|682

|1991|820

|1996|922

|2001|1038

|2006|1076

|2011|978

|2016|1074

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Infrastructure

Pinehouse is home to a store, a gas station, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment, the northern village's office and a health clinic. The community is served by Pinehouse Lake Airport. The community is also home to the Pinehouse Photography Club, a non-profit organization that supports and encourages youth mental health prevention through therapeutic photography.{{cite web

| title = A New Lens on Life (CBC / Madeline Kotzer)

| url = https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/photographing-pinehouse

| date = December 15, 2018

| access-date =2019-09-08}}

The ice skating arena features an artificial ice plant.{{cite web

| title = Northern Saskatchewan village reaps benefits from uranium deal (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Liam Richards)

| url = http://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/northern-saskatchewan-village-reaps-benefits-from-uranium-deal-1.1738833

| date = May 14, 2013

| access-date =2014-10-19}}

Education

Pinehouse has two schools - Minahik Waskahigan Elementary School and Minahik Waskahigan High School. The schools are in the Northern Lights School Division #113{{cite web

| title =Northern Lights School Division #113

| url = http://www.nlsd113.com/

| access-date =2013-01-31 }} and have an enrolment of 400 students and a support staff of 40.{{cite web

| title = Minahik Waskahigan School

| url = http://www.nlsd113.com/schlcom/north/pinehouse/

| access-date =2013-01-31 }}