Mackay Lake

Mackay Lake lies amid the lakes and rocky barrens northeast of Great Slave Lake. Caribou travel through this country in spring and autumn, sometimes moving between Mackay Lake and Lac de Gras as the seasons change. At crossings between islands and shores, Dene hunters once pursued swimming caribou by canoe and speared them in the water. A place on Mackay Lake is remembered by the Yellowknives Dene as Tii Tseh’Go’o, “spear the water”, recalling such a hunt.