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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Lac La Ronge Provincial Park is located in the boreal forest of the north central part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Canadian Shield.Situated in the Churchill River system, this provincial park has close to 100 lakes and more than 30 canoe routes, many of which follow old fur trade routes.
Grandmother's Bay 219 (Woods Cree: ᑯᐦᑯᒥᓈᓂᕽ, romanized: kohkominânihk) is an Indian reserve of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in Saskatchewan. [1] [4] Located on Otter Lake, part of the Churchill River system, it is about 77 kilometres (48 mi) north-east of Lac la Ronge.
The largest Cree band and the second largest First Nations Band in Canada after the Six Nations Iroquois is the Lac La Ronge Band in northern Saskatchewan. Given the traditional Cree acceptance of mixed marriages, it is acknowledged by academics that all bands are ultimately of mixed heritage and multilingualism and multiculturalism was the norm.
Sucker River 156C is an Indian reserve of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in Saskatchewan. [1] [4] It is at the mouth of the Nemeiben River on Lac la Ronge, about 230 kilometres (140 mi) north of Prince Albert. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 416 living in 109 of its 124 total private dwellings. [2]