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La Ronge
Saskatchewantown
La Ronge
Total population
2,743
Founded
1905
Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
La Ronge is a northern town in the boreal forest of Saskatchewan, Canada. The town is also the namesake of the larger La Ronge population centre, the largest in northern Saskatchewan, comprising the Northern Village of Air Ronge, and the Kitsakie 156B and Lac La Ronge 156 reserves of the Lac La Ronge First Nation.
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History
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. Undoubtedly, many of the trees along the water’s edge would have been visibly chewed, or completely gnawed to the ground and taken away by the rodents for their dam construction. In 1782, Swiss born fur trader Jean-Étienne Waddens had a fur trade post on Lac La Ronge. In March 1782, Waddens was fatally wounded in a quarrel with his associate Peter Pond. La Ronge began in 1904 as a fur trading post and meeting place, but with the decline of hunting and the fur market, La Ronge has diversified into other areas. Many of the Dene, Cree, and white trappers used La Ronge as their central service point. It incorporated as a northern village on 3 May 1905.
Geography
La Ronge is surrounded by several First Nations reserves, with the Northern Village of Air Ronge located just south of the community on Highway 2. With access to all other points north, east and west, and transportation linkage to the south, La Ronge is also the northern hub for the Saskatchewan provincial government. According to the Köppen–Geiger and Trewartha climate classification systems, La Ronge experiences a borderline (warm-summer) humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb; Trewartha Dc)—prior to the 1991–2020 normals, it experienced a continental subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc; Trewartha Ec). Winters are long, dry and very cold while summer is short, warm and wetter. Precipitation is fairly low, with an annual average of . The highest temperature ever recorded in La Ronge was on 23 August 1929, while the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 15 February 1936.
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Nearby places in Saskatchewan
- Sturgeon Lake123.1 mi away
- Big River128.4 mi away · pop. 1,140
- Petrykozy4451.4 mi away
- Kamienna Wola4452 mi away · pop. 330
- Giełzów4452 mi away · pop. 400
- Rudzisko4452.5 mi away · pop. 55
- Bernów4452.6 mi away · pop. 160
- Skrzyszów4452.9 mi away · pop. 200
- Maleniec4454.6 mi away · pop. 150
- Gracuch4456 mi away · pop. 190
- Wyszyna Machorowska4456.1 mi away · pop. 110
- Komaszyce4457 mi away · pop. 180
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
StatCan — Statistics Canada
- SGC code
- 4718041
- Population (Wikidata)
- 2,688
- Wikidata
- Q2782497
Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) via Wikidata P3012
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • StatCan — Statistics Canada — Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) via Wikidata P3012