Bell of Frog Lake

The settlement was the site of the Frog Lake Massacre, part of the Cree uprising of the North-West Rebellion in western Canada.

Led by Wandering Spirit, young Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake in the District of Saskatchewan of the North-West Territories[1] on 2 April 1885, where they killed nine residents.

[3][4] After the massacre, the bodies of Fafard, Marchand, Delaney and Gowanlock had been hurriedly placed in the cellar under the church by several of the Métis residents who were now captive.

They, at great risk, also moved the bodies of Quinn and Gouin into the cellar of a house near where they were killed but were refused permission to touch the other victims.

[5] On June 14 the Midland Provisional Battalion (the advance guard of Major-General Thomas Bland Strange) arrived and buried the bodies in the cemetery.

[14] The Frog Lake bell had been misidentified as being from Batoche in a Canadian Centennial yearbook published by a local historical society.