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La Loche is a northern village in northwest Saskatchewan. It is located at the end of Highway 155 on the eastern shore of Lac La Loche in Canada's boreal forest. La Loche had a population of 2,611 in 2011 and is within the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Types of Municipalities )〕 Bordering La Loche to the north and reached via Highway 955 is the Clearwater River Dene Nation (CRDN) with a population of 778 people.〔 The La Loche/CRDN population centre with 3,389 people represents about 30 percent of the Denesuline speakers of Canada. The Denesuline language is spoken by 89% of the residents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =https://sites.google.com/site/portagelaloche/home/la-loche-2011-census )〕 The northern hamlet of Black Point lies on the southern shore of the lake and is accessible via the Garson Lake Road Highway 956. This road ends in Garson Lake. From there a winter road is built every year to Fort McMurray, Alberta. Located on the northern end of Lac La Loche is the Methye Portage or Portage La Loche. This portage to the Clearwater River was in use for more than a century during the North American fur trade. Brigades such as the Portage La Loche Brigade from Fort Garry came from the south while the Athabasca and Mackenzie brigades came from the north. At Rendezvous Lake on the 19 kilometre portage the fur brigades would meet every year and exchange trade goods for furs. The furs were then brought to York Factory on the Hudson Bay for shipment to England. The Methye Portage is now part of the Clearwater River Provincial Park and a National Historic Site.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=1640 )〕 The Clearwater River is also a Canadian Heritage River. == History == Fur trade posts were built on Lac La Loche soon after Peter Pond came through the Methye Portage in 1778.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/sk-north.html#buffalo )〕 The Atlas of Canada 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/archives/4thedition/historical/079_80 )〕 shows four post of the North West Company beginning in 1780 to 1819 and three posts of the Hudson's Bay Company beginning in 1819. Another map by the archaeologist Don Steer in 1972〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=ID:24455&start=0&rows=10&mode=results )〕 shows the locations and the dates of seven of these posts. North West Company posts were located on the large peninsula called 'Big Point' (circa 1789-91) and on the south west side of the lake (1819–21). A Hudson's Bay post was located at the mouth of the portage in 1810. Transportation depots were located at each end of the portage from the 1820s to 1880s. In 1857 a permanent trading post was built on the south end of the Portage. This post moved to nearby West La Loche in the 1870s until it was destroyed by fire in 1936. The HBC relocated their post across the lake at La Loche in the newly purchased Revillon Frères buildings where they remained until they sold their northern stores in 1987. The Revillon Frères post had been in La Loche since 1906.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =https://sites.google.com/site/portagelaloche/grand-portage-la-loche/dates )〕 Missionary priests have been coming to La Loche since 1845. In 1860 the separate La Loche Mission of ''Notre Dame de la Visitation'' was established. Father Jean-Marie Pénard O.M.I. (the first resident priest of La Loche from 1895 to 1917) wrote in 1895 that the population of La Loche at the Mission was around 100 people and the population at the fort in West La Loche (six miles from the Portage) was 60 to 70 people.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/7848/8.html )〕 In 1911 he wrote that La Loche had 200 people with another 80 to 100 people living in two communities across the lake.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/8059/3.html )〕 He added that during the autumn of 1911 most residents left for winter camps to the north to hunt leaving only 60 or 70 people around the lake. In 1922 Father Jean-Baptiste Ducharme O.M.I. wrote that there were 500 people in the La Loche Mission area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/8173/6.html )〕 The Mission included other communities such as Bull's House (at the end of the La Loche River), Turnor Lake, Descharme Lake and Garson Lake. In the 1940s a convent was built for the Grey Nuns (now a private residence) along with the first hospital and the first school of the community. In 1953 a new Roman Catholic Mission church which is still in use was constructed. The first road (Highway 155) reached La Loche in 1963. Water/sewer and electricity became available to most homes in 1974. Direct dial telephone came in 1974, television in 1976 and a skating arena in 1978. In 1979 a new high school was opened, Highway 955 to the Cluff Lake uranium mine site was completed and the Clearwater River Dene Nation was officially created. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La Loche, Saskatchewan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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