Cree Lake
| Cree Lake | |
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.jpg) Satellite image of Cree Lake[1] | |
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| Location | Northern Saskatchewan Administration District |
| Coordinates | 57°30′N 106°30′W / 57.500°N 106.500°W |
| Lake type | glacial lake |
| Part of | Mackenzie River drainage basin |
| Primary inflows |
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| Primary outflows | Cree River |
| Catchment area | 4,468 km2 (1,725 sq mi) |
| Basin countries | Canada |
| Max. length | 81 km (50 mi) |
| Max. width | 57 km (35 mi) |
| Surface area | 115,200 ha (285,000 acres) |
| Average depth | 14.9 m (49 ft) |
| Max. depth | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Water volume | 17,600,000 dam3 (14,300,000 acre⋅ft) |
| Shore length1 | 2,180 km (1,350 mi) |
| Surface elevation | 487 m (1,598 ft) |
| References | [2] |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
Cree Lake[3] is a lake in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The lake is the fourth largest in the province and is located west of Reindeer Lake and south of Lake Athabasca in the Mackenzie River drainage basin.[4] There is no highway access, but the lake is reachable by floatplane.[5][6]
Cree Lake (Crystal Lodge) Airport (bush strip) and Cree Lake (Crystal Lodge) Water Aerodrome serve Crystal Lodge, a fly-in fishing lodge on Ispatinow Island.[7] At the northern end of the lake, at the tip of Rushmer Peninsula, is another fly-in lodge called Cree Lake Lodge.[8]
Cree Lake settlements
[edit]Cree Lake is in the traditional territory of the Dene and the English River Dene Nation, which is based in Patuanak. There are three Indian reserves on the lake; Cree Lake 192G and Cable Bay 192M are at the south-west corner and Barkwell Bay 192I is at the northern end on Barkwell Bay.[9]
A Dene settlement with an airport was located on the south-west shore of the lake (57°21′15.19″N 107°7′41.52″W / 57.3542194°N 107.1282000°W). It may have been the location of a Hudson's Bay Company trading post from 1891 to 1902.[10] In 1971 there were 36 residents (22 were First Nations).[11] Another settlement was located at the north-east end of the lake near the Cree River outflow. In the 1960s it had an airport, a small log church and numerous houses (57°42′39″N 106°15′49″W / 57.71083°N 106.26361°W).[12][13] A fish plant on Turner Island was built in 1957 by Waite Fisheries.
Other locations on Cree Lake with populations in the 1970s were the Cree Lake Weather Station in the south-west at the entrance to Cable Bay and an airfield (with 10 people) there operated by the Canadian Government. On Turner Island, there was the Cree Lake DNS Radio Station (Department of Northern Saskatchewan) with 10 people and a camp at the north-end with 15 people.[11]
Islands
[edit]The lake has several named and unnamed islands. Some of the named islands include:
- Auriat Island
- Cowie Island
- Dahl Island
- Davies Island
- Dixon Island
- Flemming Island
- Ispatinow Island
- Johns Island
- Keeping Island
- Laurier Island
- Pelletier Island
- Prowse Island
- Ring Island
- Rogers Island
- Turner Island
Fish species
[edit]Fish species include walleye, yellow perch, northern pike, lake trout, lake whitefish, cisco, burbot, Arctic grayling, white sucker, and longnose sucker.[14][15][16]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "NASA Visible Earth (BURN SCARS IN SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA) Note: Dark to light rust coloured areas are burn scars from forest fires". 24 August 2002. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- ^ "World Lake Database (Cree Lake)". Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ "Cree Lake". Canadian Geographical Names Database. Government of Canada. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ Evans, David (6 February 2006). "Cree Lake". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "Cree Lake Fishing Map". GPS Nautical Charts. Bist LLC. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ Lewry, Marilyn. "Cree Lake". Indigenous Saskatchewan Encyclopedia. University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "Crystal Lodge Cree Lake". Tourism Saskatchewan. Government of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "Cree Lake Lodge". Tourism Saskatchewan. Government of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "AANDC Reserves/Settlements/Villages". Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan (Cree Lake Post)". Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ a b "University of Saskatchewan Northern Research Portal (R.M. Bone fonds)". Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ "Main Street, Saskatchewan (Cree Lake)". Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ "The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan (Cree Lake)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ "Cree Lake". Angler's Atlas. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "Cree Lake". Fishbrain. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ Siemens, Matthew. "Cree Lake". SaskLakes. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
