Artillery Lake

East of Great Slave Lake, the Lockhart River passes through Artillery Lake on its course across the rocky Shield. The Łutsël K'é Dene call it Ɂedacho Tué, the lake of the big caribou crossing. Its shores and narrows are part of their ancestral country, where caribou have crossed the water during their migrations. In the 1830s George Back gave the lake its English name in honour of the Royal Artillery, to which some members of his party belonged.