Shell Lake sits about 90 kilometres west of Prince Albert. It was once part of the Rural Municipality of Shell Lake No. 495 before that municipality was absorbed by the RM of Spiritwood No. 496, and it became an incorporated village on October 18, 1940. In 1967, a nearby farm was the scene of the Shell Lake murders.
Today the village is the administrative centre of the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation band government. Right next to it, on the western shore of Memorial Lake, is Memorial Lake Regional Park, established in 1962 at the intersection of Highways 3 and 12. The park offers camping, swimming, boating, ball diamonds, hiking and an 18-hole golf course, and northern pike are commonly found in the spring-fed lake.
On a hill in the park stands a stone monument built by local boy scouts in 1929. The stones were gathered from the homesteads of local men who died in World War I.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Shell Lake, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.