Split Lake

Split Lake, known in Cree as Tataskweyak, the place of tall trees, lies on the Nelson River in northern Manitoba. The Nelson and Burntwood rivers enter its western end, while the Grass joins the Nelson just upstream. The lake's waters continue eastward along the Nelson towards Hudson Bay. Cree people have long lived and travelled in the surrounding lake country. In the 1790s the Hudson's Bay Company maintained a trading establishment at Split Lake, one of several posts in the northern interior.