Falcon Lake is located in the
Whiteshell Provincial Park
Whiteshell Provincial Park is a provincial park in southeast Manitoba, approximately east of the city of Winnipeg. The park is considered to be a IUCN protected area categories#Category II — National Park, Class II protected area under the IU ...
in southeastern
Manitoba
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, Canada. The lake is about 152 kilometres east of
Winnipeg
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on the
Trans-Canada Highway
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near the Ontario border.
The lake is named for
Métis
The Métis ( , , , ) are a mixed-race Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces extending into parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the northwest United States. They ha ...
poet and songwriter
Pierre Falcon
Pierre Falcon (sometimes referred to as Pierriche, meaning 'Pierre the rhymer'; 4 June 1793 – 21 October 1876) was a Métis fur trader and pioneer living in what is today known as Manitoba. He was also a well known composer and singer.
F ...
(1793–1876). It appears on the Palliser map of 1865.
The lake inspired the name of the TV series ''
Falcon Beach
''Falcon Beach'' is a Canadian TV show, filmed in Winnipeg and Manitoba and aired on both Canadian and American networks. It first debuted in 2005 as a movie in Canada, but then produced in 2006 as a TV series. It's unique because each episode has ...
'' although that fictional location is set on another Manitoba lake. The lake was also a favourite summer destination of
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. Since the begi ...
, who wrote a song entitled "Falcon Lake" while with
Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield was a Canadian-American Rock music, rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1966 by Canadians Neil Young, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin (musician), Dewey Martin and Americans Stephen Stills and Richie Furay. The group, widely know ...
.
See also
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Falcon Lake, Manitoba
Falcon Lake is an unincorporated urban centre at the western end of Falcon Lake situated in the southeasternmost section of the Whiteshell Provincial Park in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is the major entry point to the Whiteshell from the ...
the community at the western end of the lake
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Falcon Lake Incident
The Falcon Lake Incident was an alleged UFO encounter on May 20, 1967, at Falcon Lake (Manitoba), Falcon Lake, within Whiteshell Provincial Park in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Unlike typical UFO reports, the lone witness, Steve Michalak, ...
, an alleged UFO sighting at the lake
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List of lakes of Manitoba
This is an incomplete list of lakes of Manitoba, a province of Canada.
Larger lake statistics
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References
External links
Pierre Falconin
The Canadian Encyclopedia
''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' (TCE; ) is the national encyclopedia of Canada, published online by the Toronto-based historical organization Historica Canada, with financial support by the federal Department of Canadian Heritage and Society of Com ...
* https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/podcasts/Pages/ufo-falcon-lake-incident.aspx Falcon Lake Incident Podcast from Library and Archives Canada
Lakes of Manitoba
Whiteshell Provincial Park
Bodies of water of Eastman Region, Manitoba
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