Bakers Narrows

Bakers Narrows, Manitoba, is a small residential community approximately 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Flin Flon on Lake Athapapuskow.

It straddles the North Arm and Little Athapap sections of Lake Athapapuskow and lies within Bakers Narrows Provincial Park.

Archaeological digs at Bakers Narrows Provincial Park revealed pottery, arrowheads, and other artifacts indicating regular habitation by people of the Shield Archaic tradition, who hunted caribou in the area as far back as 7000 years ago.

[10] The name comes from the first homesteader, Bill Baker a trapper and prospector from Ontario, who settled there with his wife Lydia Paul (from the Cumberland House Cree Nation) in approximately 1910 with the intention of establishing a trading post.

[13] To serve the growing mining industry in the Flin Flon area, a federal boat dock was built there in the early 1950s.

First published map (1917) to use the place name Bakers Narrows