Moose Lake | |
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.jpg) NASA image showing the location of Moose Lake | |
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  Moose Lake | |
| Coordinates:53°42′0″N100°17′59.99″W / 53.70000°N 100.2999972°W /53.70000; -100.2999972 | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Manitoba |
| Census division | 21 |
| Region | Northern Region |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.66 km2 (0.64 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 260 m (840 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 1,137 |
| • Density | 684.4/km2 (1,773/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−6 (CDT) |
Moose Lake is a small community inManitoba, Canada. It is located on the eastern edge of theSaskatchewan River Delta on the western shore ofSouth Moose Lake about 74 km southeast ofThe Pas. Adjacent to the non-treaty community is a First Nations reserve, home to theMosakahiken Cree Nation.
The community of Moose Lake Manitoba, with the help of Thomas Henry Peacock Lamb (also known as THP Lamb or Ten Horse-Power Lamb), an Englishman from Yorkshire, built atrading post on the western shore of Moose Lake called Lamb's Store. In 1900, THP build a trading post on the west shore of Moose Lake. The trading post was officially called Lamb's Store but most people referred to it as "The Post" and predated the current community of Moose Lake by several years.
THP's son Tom Lamb (who later startedLamb Air), a Cattle Ranch (7-L), a Muskrat Ranch, commercial fishing and construction bought The Post from his father and operated it for years. Eventually, Tom's son-in-law Jock McAree and daughter Carol (Lamb) bought The Post from Tom Lamb. Jock ran the store for several years with the assistance of his wife and children. Later his son Greg McAree took over, they added a video games room and expanded with a laundromat. The North West Company eventually bought The Post from Jock and Carol and is operating today.
THP's daughter, Billie Lamb Allan, wrote a memoir of her family's life at Moose Lake at the beginning of the 20th century. The book "Dew Upon the Grass" was published in 1963. The title came from a favorite quotation of her father from the King James version of the bible: "The King's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favour is as dew upon the grass." "Dew Upon the Grass" chronicled the lives of Thomas Henry Peacock Lamb and Caroline Alice Marks Lamb as they raised eleven children in northern Manitoba.
In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, Moose Lake had a population of 135 living in 30 of its 35 total private dwellings, a change of-32.5% from its 2016 population of 200. With a land area of 9.75 km2 (3.76 sq mi), it had a population density of13.8/km2 (35.9/sq mi) in 2021.[2]
Moose Lake is accessed fromThe Pas (which is 103 km by road) by going north onPTH 10, east onPR 287 then south (from Clearwater Lake) onPR 384.
The town has an airport, Moose Lake Airport, known by theIATA code YAD.
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