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Meadow Lake
Saskatchewancity
Meadow Lake
Total population
5,322
Founded
1931
Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Meadow Lake is a city in the boreal forest of northwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. Its location is about 246 kilometres (153 mi) northeast of Lloydminster and 156 kilometres (97 mi) north of North Battleford. Founded as a trading post in 1799, it became a village in 1931 and a town in 1936. On November 9, 2009, it officially became Saskatchewan's 14th city.
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History
Peter Fidler built Bolsover House in 1799 near "Lac des Prairies", the first name given to Meadow Lake. In 1873, Métis families arrived, establishing a Hudson's Bay Company trading post, joined by other settlers in the early 1900s. The largest impetus occurred following a fire of 1919 and the exodus of some of the settlers during the Great Depression from the Dust Bowl of central and southern Saskatchewan to communities in the north. Peter Fidler of the Hudson's Bay Company was told by Indian guides that Meadow Lake was a good place for furs. On August 30, 1799, he reached the mouth of the Meadow Lake River. The stream was so narrow and crooked that he almost despaired of navigating it. When he reached the lake, he found it so shallow and swampy that he had to proceed demi-chargé. Finding no good place on the lake, he went up a river and selected a place about 1,000 yards inland to build the 12-foot by 12-foot log fort. He named it Bolsover House after his hometown in England. The post returned only 190 made beaver in the first season, so in 1801 it was closed and everything moved east to Green Lake House. The exact site of Bolsover House is unknown. There is a monument to Peter Fidler in Meadow Lake at Elk's Park.
Geography
Meadow Lake is located in the middle of an area pre-historically covered by a large glacial lake, also called Meadow Lake, formed from a receding continental glacier, of which only a fraction still exists. The lake is located on the east side of the city. The ancient lakeshore forms the Meadow Lake Escarpment, a significant terrain feature clearly visible looking south from many points in the city. The area is a part of the Southern Boreal EcoRegion with the Northern Boreal EcoRegion to the north and the Parkland EcoRegion to the south. The neighbouring rural areas include Trembling aspen Populus tremuloides, White spruce Picea glauca, Jack Pine Pinus banksiana, Black Spruce Picea mariana and muskegs. Specifically, Meadow Lake is situated in the Meadow Lake plain of the Boreal transition ecoregion in the Boreal Plain ecozone. Meadow Lake experiences a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc) that falls just short of being classified as a Humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb). A record snowfall occurred on November 16, 1984, with and of rain falling on May 17, 1984. A record snowfall depth was recorded on February 22, 1997, when were measured. January 11, 1986, was very cold with wind gusting to per hour. The coldest temperature ever recorded was on 8 January 1930. |date = July 2016 |source 2= weatherstats.ca (for dewpoint and monthly&yearly average absolute maximum&minimum temperature) }}
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Nearby places in Saskatchewan
- Big River66.6 mi away · pop. 1,140
- Sturgeon Lake107.6 mi away
- Petrykozy4576.4 mi away
- Kamienna Wola4576.9 mi away · pop. 330
- Giełzów4577 mi away · pop. 400
- Bernów4577.5 mi away · pop. 160
- Rudzisko4577.8 mi away · pop. 55
- Skrzyszów4577.9 mi away · pop. 200
- Maleniec4579.8 mi away · pop. 150
- Gracuch4581.1 mi away · pop. 190
- Wyszyna Machorowska4581.4 mi away · pop. 110
- Komaszyce4582 mi away · pop. 180
Geography & sun
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Official Identifiers
StatCan — Statistics Canada
- SGC code
- 4717052
- Population (Wikidata)
- 5,344
- Wikidata
- Q1904178
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