BUFFALO LAKE VILLAGE
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BUFFALO LAKE VILLAGE |
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NAME: Buffalo Lake
Village COUNTY: N/A ROADS: 4WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Mild summer,cold winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer |
COMMENTS:
Central Alberta REMAINS: Nothing. |
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According to a Colonel Sam Steele of the Canadian Royal Mounted Police,
Buffalo Lake Village was more of a camp than a town. Although it reportedly
consisted of around 400 cabins populated by the Metis (half-breeds) in
1875, it was a gathering place for hunters and their families during
the off-season. At that time, there were only two whites in the village,
a storekeeper and his wife. When all the hunters and their families gathered
there the population could have approximated close to 2000 people. The
disappearance of the buffalo spelled the end of the encampment at Buffalo
Lake. Prairie fires in the late 1889s and early 1890s destroyed most
of the evidence that the place ever existed. H.B. Chenoweth |
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