Green Lake Shack
The place
Green Lake Shack in Saskatchewan, Kamsack/Preeceville area (Parkland Region, Canadian Prairies, Canada), at 612 m elevation, on the plateau of the Canadian Prairies. Continuous Canada Prairies cluster (batches 200-349). Private rustic fishing/hunting cabin (Green Lake is a common place name across Saskatchewan's 100,000 lakes, the "land of living skies"), area within the aspen parkland biome (a prairie-to-boreal transition zone with Populus tremuloides + Prunus virginiana + Cornus stolonifera + ephemeral spring biodiversity) and near Duck Mountain Provincial Park (26,000 ha + a moose Alces alces population of about 2,000 + grizzly bear Ursus arctos horribilis, extinct in southern Canada, the last one killed in Manitoba in 1900), heritage of the Cree-Métis peoples (Nêhiyawak Algonquian speakers, 100,000, Cree language across the Prairies + Métis descendants of unions between French-Canadian voyageurs and Cree at the Red River, the 1869-70 resistance, Louis Riel executed in 1885 after the North-West Rebellion).
The setting
Saskatchewan Kamsack/Preeceville Parkland Region Prairies Canada 612 m Prairies plateau, continuous cluster batches 200-349, private fishing/hunting Green Lake place name SK 100,000 lakes land of living skies, aspen parkland prairie-boreal transition Populus tremuloides/Prunus virginiana/Cornus stolonifera spring, Duck Mountain PP 26,000 ha Alces alces moose 2,000 + Ursus arctos horribilis grizzly extinct southern Canada last Manitoba 1900, Cree-Métis Nêhiyawak 100,000 Cree Prairies + Métis voyageur-Cree Riel 1869-70 executed 1885 North-West Rebellion.
