[1][4] It is about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Carlyle, is adjacent to Moose Mountain Provincial Park, and surrounds White Bear (Carlyle) Lake.

It encompasses a total of 12,038.4 ha (29,748 acres).

In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 691 living in 237 of its 972 total private dwellings.

[3] The White Bear First Nations signed on to Treaty 4 in 1875 and in 1877 White Bear 70 was established on the east side of Moose Mountain Upland.

In the late 1970s, Carlyle Lake Resort became part of the reserve.