Official Name: | Frog Lake |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Frog Lake in Alberta |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 220 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Alberta |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Northern Alberta |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 12 |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipal district |
Subdivision Name4: | County of St. Paul No. 19 |
Government Type: | Unincorporated |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | −7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −6 |
Coordinates: | 53.8317°N -110.4167°W |
Elevation M: | 593 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | T0A 1M0 |
Area Code: | +1-780 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 897 |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Blank1 Info: | Frog Lake |
Frog Lake is a Cree community of the Frog Lake First Nation approximately 207km (129miles) east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is located 11km (07miles) northeast of the Hamlet of Heinsburg and 13km (08miles) southwest of the Fishing Lake Metis Settlement.
Frog Lake has 2,454 band members as of August, 2007. Frog Lake has a reserve population of approximately 1,000 residing on-reserve.[1]
Frog Lake was the scene of the Frog Lake Massacre of which nine white men were killed by Cree Indigenous people on April 2, 1885 in the course of the North-West Rebellion.[2]