Wollaston Lake Barge - Front view - July 2013

The Wollaston Lake Barge Ferry is a

barge Barge nowadays generally refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. The first modern barges were pulled by tugs, but nowadays most are pushed by pusher boats, or other vessels ...

ferry that operates in the Canadian province of

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in the

Northern Saskatchewan Administration District The Northern Saskatchewan Administration District (NSAD) is the unincorporated area, unorganized area of the Canadian, Canada province of Saskatchewan. Overwhelmingly larger than the province's other communities, it encompasses approximately half ...

of the province. The ferry crosses

Wollaston Lake Wollaston Lake is a lake in north-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is northeast of Prince Albert. With a surface area of (excluding islands; if islands are included), it is the largest bifurcation lake in the world – that is, a lake th ...

, providing a link between Highways 905 and

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and the community of

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. The barge is operated by the

Hatchet Lake Dene Nation Hatchet Lake Denesuline Nation ( chp, Tthęł Tué Dene) is a Denesuline First Nation in northern Saskatchewan. The main settlement, Wollaston Lake, is an unincorporated community on Wollaston Lake in the boreal forest of north-eastern ...

under contract to the

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. The barge has tolls and operates twice per day during the ice-free season while an ice-road is used during part of the winter. Passage must be pre-booked. The ferry has a length of , a width of , and a load limit of . It is the only non-

cable ferry A cable ferry (including the terms chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in many cases propelled) across a river or large body of water by cables connected to both shores. Early cable ferries often ...

in the province.

References

Ferries of Saskatchewan Division No. 18, Saskatchewan {{Saskatchewan-transport-stub

See also

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