Turnor Lake () is a community on the southern shore of
Turnor Lake in the
Canadian province
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of
Saskatchewan
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. From
Highway 155 it is accessible by
Highway 909. The community includes the
Northern Hamlet of Turnor Lake and
Turnor Lake 193B of the
Birch Narrows First Nation.
The combined population was 598 in the 2011 Canada Census. Turnor Lake had 179 people
and Birch Narrows (Turnor Lake 193B) had 419 people.
History
The lake was once called Island Lake (Lac des Isles). In 1895, Birch Narrows had five families or 25 people in residence.
Father Penard of
La Loche mentions in his letter of 1911 that there were six or seven families living at "le Detroit du Bouleau" (Birch Narrows) 35 miles east of La Loche.
In 1938, Father Ducharme had a chapel built in the community.
In 1966, the people of Clear Lake were relocated to Turnor Lake. (Clear Lake had about 60 people in 1944 according to the Piercy Report.)
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Turnor Lake had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Birch Narrows Dene Nation
As of June 2012, Birch Narrows Dene Nation had 409 members living on reserve and 299 members living at locations off reserve. It is affiliated with the
Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC).
Birch Narrows Dene Nation has territory at three sites:
*Turnor Lake 193B with , which adjoins the Northern Hamlet of Turnor Lake;
*Churchill Lake 193A with ,
which contains the historic site of Clear Lake
at the junction of
Churchill Lake and
Frobisher Lake; and
*Turnor Lake 194 with ,
which is on
Peter Pond Lake
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east of
Dillon.
See also
*
List of communities in Saskatchewan
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Types ...
*
Denesuline
References
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Division No. 18, Unorganized, Saskatchewan
Northern hamlets in Saskatchewan
Dene communities
First Nations governments in Saskatchewan