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{{Short description|Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada}}
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'''Meadow Lake'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/HARWU|title=Place names - Meadow Lake|first=Natural Resources Canada|last=Government of Canada|website=www4.rncan.gc.ca}}</ref> is a small, shallow, oval-shaped lake that is the source of [[Meadow River (Saskatchewan)|Meadow River]] and the namesake of [[Meadow Lake Provincial Park]], despite not being within the park's boundaries. The lake is in the transition zone between the [[Boreal forest of Canada|boreal forest]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Boreal Plains Ecozone |url=http://ecozones.ca/english/zone/BorealPlains/index.html |website=ecozones |access-date=19 January 2021}}</ref> and [[Prairies Ecozone|prairies]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Prairies Ecozone |url=http://ecozones.ca/english/zone/Prairies/index.html |website=ecozones |access-date=20 January 2022}}</ref> [[ecozones of Canada]]
Meadow Lake is situated in the [[Rural Municipality of Meadow Lake No. 588]] with the city of [[Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan|Meadow Lake]] located along the western shore and [[Flying Dust First Nation]] located along the north-west shore, adjacent to the city. [[Saskatchewan Highway 55|Highway 55]] runs along the northern shore and [[Saskatchewan Highway 799|Highway 799]], the southern shore. [[Saskatchewan Highway 4|Highway 4]] is west of the lake and provides access to the city.
== History ==
[[File:Meadow Lake Saskatchewan 19.JPG|thumb|left|150px|Peter Fidler monument, Elk's Park, Meadow Lake]]
[[Peter Fidler]] was the first European to discover the lake. He was a [[Hudson's Bay Company|Hudson's Bay]] employee who was exploring and mapping the region in 1799 and upon the lake's discovery, he named it ''Lac des Prairies'' and built a 12 foot by 12 foot log fort. He named the fort [[Bolsover House]], after his home town of [[Bolsover]] in [[England]]. It lasted only one season before being abandoned and relocated to [[Green Lake, Saskatchewan|Green Lake House]]. While the exact location of the trading post is unknown, it is believed to be near the spot where Meadow River flows out of the lake. A monument was erected in Meadow Lake's Elk's Park in 1955 by the [[Government of Canada]] to pay homage Peter Fidler.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://meadowlake.ca/p/history |website=meadowlake |publisher=City of Meadow Lake |access-date=20 January 2022}}</ref>
== Description ==
Meadow Lake is the remnants of a once vast [[glacial lake]] called ''Glacial Meadow Lake'' that existed near the end of the [[Last Glacial Period|last ice age]] over 10,000 years ago.<ref>{{cite web |title=Proglacial Lakes |url=https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/proglacial_lakes.jsp |website=The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan |publisher=Government of Saskatchewan |access-date=20 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Where we are |url=https://meadowlake.ca/p/where-we-are |website=Meadow Lake |publisher=City of Meadow Lake |access-date=20 January 2022}}</ref>
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Meadow Lake is situated north of the [[Meadow Lake Escarpment]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Williston Basin Symposium |url=https://archives.datapages.com/data/ndgs_sgs/data/0002/0070/0070.html |website=Datapages, Inc |publisher=Datapages, Inc |access-date=20 January 2022}}</ref> A large part of the northern slope of the escarpment is within the lake's [[drainage basin|catchment]] and was also the southern limit of Glacial Meadow Lake. The following rivers and creeks flow into Meadow Lake:
*Nolin Creek
*Chitek River, which starts at [[Chitek Lake (Saskatchewan)|Chitek Lake]]
**Lavigne River
**Alcott Creek
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***Myo Creek
== See also ==
*[[List of lakes of Saskatchewan]]
*[[Geography of Saskatchewan]]
*[[North American fur trade]]
== References ==
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