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The name “La Ronge” comes from the lake itself, although the actual origin of the name is uncertain. The French verb ronger translates as “to gnaw”, with at least one explanation theorising that 17th- and 18th-century French fur traders referred to the lake as la ronge (literally, the chewed) due to the abundant beaver population along the lake’s shoreline.
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band (Woods Cree: ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ ᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᕽ, romanized: mistahi-sâkahikanihk [2]) is a Woodland Cree (Sakāwithiniwak) First Nations in northern Saskatchewan. It is one of the ten largest Cree ( Nîhithaw ) band governments in Canada, the largest First Nation in Saskatchewan, with the administrative centre ...
Island on Lac la Ronge. Lac La Ronge Provincial Park [5] extends around the lake on three sides, starting at La Ronge and ending along the east shore. [6] The park contains four RV parks, two of which are on the west shore of the lake, one is in the town of Missinipe (Missinipe is the Woodland Cree name for the Churchill River which is on the south-west shore of Otter Lake, which flows through ...
Holy Trinity Anglican Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church building located on the banks of the Churchill River in Stanley Mission, a community in the Lac La Ronge First Nation and Lac La Ronge Provincial Park in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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The following places in the park are reached from La Ronge on Highway 102 (distances are all from La Ronge). 18 kilometres (11 mi) north is the Nemeiben Lake access road. 27 kilometres (17 mi) north is Wadin Bay. 32 kilometres (20 mi) north is a settlement of the Lac La Ronge First Nation. 44 kilometres (27 mi) north is the junction of Highway ...
James Myles Venne (died November 28, 2007) was a northern Saskatchewan First Nations leader. He served as chief of the Lac La Ronge First Nation from 1971 to 1983 and then again from 1985 to 1987.