Lac La Ronge

Lac La Ronge lies on the edge of the Canadian Shield, its waters dotted with more than a thousand islands. The Montreal and Nipekamew rivers feed the lake; the Rapid River carries its outflow over Nistowiak Falls towards the Churchill. Cree people lived around the lake before fur traders arrived in the late eighteenth century. In 1782 Jean-Étienne Waddens maintained a post here and was fatally wounded in a quarrel with his associate Peter Pond.