Gordon Lake is a lake in the
Canadian province
Within the geographical areas of Canada, the ten provinces and three territories are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North ...
of
Saskatchewan within the
Churchill River watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
of the
Churchill River Upland ecozone. Gordon Lake was named after Leading Seaman Cyril James Albert Gordon, who was killed in action during the
Second World War. He died on 20 September 1943 while on convoy duty south of
Iceland when the ship he was aboard, , was torpedoed by
U-boats. The lake is about north of the village of
Pinehouse
Pinehouse is a northern village located in the boreal forest of Saskatchewan on the western shore of Pinehouse Lake within the Canadian Shield.
Travelling by road from Pinehouse, the Key Lake mine is 223 km (138 miles) north, Prince Albe ...
in the
Northern Saskatchewan Administration District.
At the southern end of the lake is the Gordon Lake Recreation Site (). The
recreation site has a small campground, picnic area, boat launch, and fish cleaning station. Access is from
Highway 914.
Fish species
Fish commonly found in Gordon Lake include
burbot,
lake trout,
lake whitefish,
northern pike, and
walleye.
See also
*
List of lakes of Saskatchewan
References
Lakes of Saskatchewan
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