La Loche sits on the eastern shore of Lac La Loche, at the end of Highway 155. Its story begins with the fur trade. Peter Pond came through the Methye Portage in 1778, and fur posts followed soon after on the lake. The North West Company built posts from 1780 on, and the Hudson's Bay Company from 1819. The 19-kilometre portage to the Clearwater River was used for more than a century. Brigades from the south and from the Athabasca and Mackenzie country met each year at Rendezvous Lake to swap trade goods for furs. Today the portage is a National Historic Site within Clearwater River Provincial Park.
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-3°
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Feels like -6° with the wind chill · Wind WNW 8 km/h, gusts 28 · Humidity 80%
- Tonight -3°
- Fri 1°-3°
- Sat 4°-1°
- Sun 4°-3°
- Mon 3°-2°
- Tue 5°-4°
- Wed 5°
Tonight: Mainly cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries this evening. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 3. Wind chill near minus 7.
Normal for today: high 1°, low -7°
- 9 h 25 min of daylight, 4 min 30 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 8:18 a.m., sunset 5:43 p.m.
- Frost likely tonight, low -3°
- Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
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Forecast for the La Loche area, observed at Buffalo Narrows Airport at 10:00 p.m. Forecast and alerts from Environment and Climate Change Canada; water advisories from the Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Health Authority, checked at 10:31 p.m..
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- 145 La Loche Avenue
La Loche SK S0M 1G0 - Box 310
La Loche SK S0M 1G0
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