Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan
- Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan
Pelican Narrows is a northern village in Saskatchewan, located 120 km NW of Creighton via the Hanson Lake Road and highway 135. It is at the narrows that join Mirond and Pelican Lakes which lie between the Sturgeon-Weir and Churchill River systems. Pelican Narrows is the administrative centre for the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and the majority of the townsite is reserve land. About 2,500 people live in the Pelican Narrows area.
The Cree settlement dates from at least 1730. It was an area of trade for the Hudson Bay and North West companies. In 1874, the Hudson’s Bay Company established a permanent post at Pelican Narrows, which became the Northern Store in 1987. Roman Catholic missionaries were traversing the area from the mid-1800s and established a permanent mission in 1878. Anglican missionaries arrived in the late 1890s and built a church in 1911. Schoolchildren were sent away to a number of years. In 1967, an all-weather road was built into the community and other services followed.
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