Wingard is an

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in Duck Lake No. 436,

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. Wingard is seven miles north-east of

Fort Carlton Fort Carlton was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post from 1795 until 1885. It was located along the North Saskatchewan River not far from Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, Duck Lake, in what is now the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The fort wa ...

and twelve miles north-west of Duck Lake.

History

Wingard history dates back to 1882 when Danish settler Nels Peterson established a farm at the site, along the

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a short distance from Fort Carlton. Peterson named the settlement "Weingarten" which is Danish for "Wine Garden", but later English and Anglo-Metis settlers

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the name to "Wingard." During the

North-West Rebellion The North-West Rebellion (), was an armed rebellion of Métis under Louis Riel and an associated uprising of Cree and Assiniboine mostly in the District of Saskatchewan, against the Government of Canada, Canadian government. Important events i ...

of 1885, Peterson and the other settlers fled to

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to escape Gabriel Dumont's victorious rebels after the

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, alongside the retreating

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and Prince Albert Volunteers. They later returned to the community following the

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. Wingard Ferry is the only remaining

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on the North Saskatchewan between

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and Prince Albert. The first ferry was established by Nels Peterson in 1895, prior to that boats and scows had been used to cross the river. Today Wingard consists of little more than a ferry, an

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, and cemetery.

References

External links

* Where the River Runs: Stories of the Saskatchewan and the People Drawn to its Shores, Victor Carl Friesen, 2001, Fifth House Ltd., Calgary AB * What's in a Name: The Story Behind Saskatchewan Place Names, Third Edition, E.T. Russell, 1997, Fifth House Ltd., Calgary AB {{authority control Duck Lake No. 463, Saskatchewan Populated places established in 1882 Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan Division No. 15, Saskatchewan

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