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Athabasca Lake


Athabasca Lake
Athabasca Lake


Phone: (306) 787-9571
www.saskparks.net
jhamilton@serm.gov.sk.ca

Open: Jan to Dec


  • fourth largest lake of Canada, NE Alberta & SW Saskatchewan, at the edge of the Canadian Shield
  • part of the Mackenzie River system
  • Gold & uranium are found nearby
  • Fort Chipewyan was built (1788) at the west end of the lake by Roderick McKenzie of the North West Company and has been maintained
  • Steamers of the Hudson's Bay Company ply the lake in summer between Chipewyan & Fond du Lac, from where the canoe route runs by way of Wollaston & Reindeer lakes to the Churchill River
  • Philip Turnor, the British surveyor, surveyed & mapped the lake between 1790 & 1792