Town of Duck Lake | |
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Town | |
 Duck Lake Town Office | |
  Location of Duck Lake  Duck Lake, Saskatchewan (Canada) | |
| Coordinates: 52°48′44″N 106°13′34″W / 52.81222°N 106.22611°W[1] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Saskatchewan |
| Rural municipality | Duck Lake |
| Post office established | 1879 |
| Village Incorporated | 1898 |
| Town Incorporated | 1911 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Donna Piche |
| • Town Administrator | Michelle Zurakowski |
| • Governing body | Duck Lake Town Council |
| Area (2021)[2] | |
| • Land | 2.38 km2 (0.92 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | 579 |
| • Density | 243.3/km2 (630/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−06:00 (CST) |
| Postal code | S0K 1J0 |
| Area code | 306 |
| Highways | Highway 11 Highway 212 |
| Website | Official Site |
| [3][4] | |
Duck Lake is a town in the boreal forest of central Saskatchewan, Canada. Its location is 88 kilometres (55 mi) north of Saskatoon and 44 kilometres (27 mi) 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.
- ^ "Duck Lake". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
2021censuswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ National Archives, Archivia Net. "Post Offices and Postmasters". Archived from the original on 6 October 2006. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home. "Municipal Directory System". Archived from the original on 15 January 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2013.