Gods Lake is a lake in northeastern

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in Canada. The lake covers an area of with a net (water surface) area of , making it the 7th largest lake in the province. It lies north of Island Lake at an elevation of , approximately east of

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. It has a shore length of . It drains north via the

Gods River The Gods River is a remote wilderness river in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Its flows from its source at Gods Lake to its mouth at the Hayes River. The Hayes River flows to Hudson Bay. The First Nations First ...

and the

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. The area was featured in season 7 of the reality television series ''

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writes about Gods Lake in chapter 5 of Indian Horse.

Settlements

The

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communities of Gods Lake Narrows, Gods Lake (God's Lake 23), and

are located on the shores of the lake. Gods Lake Narrows is in the southern portion of Gods Lake where the lake narrows. The community is built on an island in the narrows of the lake and on the west and east shores. Gods Lake Narrows consists of the northern community of Gods Lake Narrows (a designated place in the 2011 Canada Census) with a population of 85 and God's Lake 23, a God's Lake First Nation community of 1,341 people. At the mouth of Gods River on the northern end of the lake is the primary settlement of the Manto Sipi First Nation community of Gods River (God's River 86A) with 596 people.

References

{{authority control Lakes of Manitoba Hudson's Bay Company trading posts

Settlements

See also

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