Immediately to the north of Duck Lake is the south block of the Nisbet Provincial Forest.

Duck Lake (French: Lac-aux-Canards) was one of the five Southbranch Settlements settled by French-speaking Métis from Manitoba in the 1860s and 1870s.

At Duck Lake, the Prince Albert Trail, which ran from Regina to Prince Albert, crossed the Carlton Trail and it marked the halfway point between the Métis headquarters at Batoche and the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Carlton.

[6] Historic Carpenter Gothic style All Saints Anglican Church built in 1896 is a municipal heritage site.

Its historic cemetery contains the graves of some of those who fought in the Battle of Duck Lake as well as those of other pioneers of the community.