Moose Mountain Provincial Park
provincial park in Saskatchewan
Moose Mountain Provincial Park is a provincial park in south-eastern Saskatchewan about 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of the town of Carlyle on the Moose Mountain Upland. It is one of Saskatchewan's few parks with a community inside the park as there are several subdivisions with both year-round and seasonal residents. The village of Kenosee Lake is completely surrounded by the park but is not part of the park.
History
Long before the park was established, the forest and lakes on the plateau that the park is on had been an important source of resources for the local Indigenous people and early settlers. The forests provided shelter, firewood, fishing, and game. The lakes, especially Carlyle and Fish, provided recreation as, starting in the early 1900s, cabins, stores, and dance halls were being built. Seeing the importance of a "forest island" in the middle of the bald prairie, the Canadian government in 1906 designated the upland as a forest reserve under the Dominion Lands Branch through the Dominion Forest Reserves Act. In 1908, it was re-designated as Moose Mountain Forest Preserve to protect the forests from being cleared for farm and pasture land. The Act also ensured the forest could be managed sustainably. In 1911, the federal government created the Dominion Parks Branch.
“Moose Mountain Provincial Park” enters the record as provincial park in Saskatchewan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moose, Mountain and Provincial can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3364728. The Library of Congress control number is sh88007522. Authority coordinates are 49.821, -102.376. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1908 and 1911.
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This entry incorporates text from “Moose Mountain Provincial Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.