Garson Lake, Saskatchewan

The population of this northern settlement is 10 and is led by chairman Jocelyn LeMaigre.

In 1895, Father Penard of the La Loche Mission[4] wrote that there was a settlement of 50 people at Whitefish Lake.

On August 4, 1899, the Dene residents of Garson Lake signed an adhesion to Treaty 8 at Fort McMurray.

[5] Their descendants came to be known as the Portage La Loche Band.

Today they form the Clearwater River Dene Nation.