Mountain Cabin Recreation Site Explained

Mountain Cabin
Settlement Type:Recreation area
Pushpin Map:Saskatchewan#Canada
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Canada
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Type2:Census division
Subdivision Name2:14
Subdivision Type3:Rural Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Hudson Bay No. 394
Leader Title1:MP
Leader Name1:Cathay Wagantall
Leader Title2:MLA
Leader Name2:Fred Bradshaw
Established Date:1917
Timezone:CST
Utc Offset:-6
Coordinates:53.5838°N -102.1245°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:S0E 1G0
Area Code:306
Blank Name:Highways

Mountain Cabin Recreation Site[1] is a recreation site, and former settlement, near the north-eastern ridge of the Pasquia Hills in Canadian province of Saskatchewan.[2]

The recreation area has free camping, fire pits, a shelter, and bathrooms, and is one of the closest free camping areas to Wildcat Hill Provincial Park.[3]

It is located at the junction of Highways 9 and 55, approximately north of Hudson Bay, south of The Pas, and east of Pakwaw Lake.

The Pasquia Hills are sometimes known as the Pasquia Mountains, or The Pas Mountains, which is where the word Mountain comes from in the name. The original cabin belonged to a mining prospector, and was embedded into the side of a hill.[4]

Another potential origin of the name comes from the Forest Ranger cabin in the area. From 1906 to 1930, the Dominion Forest Service built over a dozen ranger cabins in the Pasquia National Forest Reserve, including one at the mouth of Mountain Creek, which originates in the Pasquia Hills and empties into the Nitenai River. The cabin was officially called Mountain Creek Cabin, but was often shortened to Mountain Cabin, even in official correspondence. The Mountain Creek Cabin was destroyed by a fire in 1961.[5]

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53.5838°N -102.1245°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Place names - Mountain Cabin Recreation Site. Natural Resources Canada. Government of Canada. www4.rncan.gc.ca.
  2. Web site: SGC 2006 - 4714001 - Hudson Bay No. 394. Government of Canada. Statistics Canada. 2009-01-05. www23.statcan.gc.ca. 2019-11-10.
  3. Web site: Google review of Mountain Cabin by Lowell Kotko. Google Maps. en. 2019-11-10.
  4. Web site: Beaten at Bainbridge River. The Saskatchewan Border. en-CA. 2019-11-10.
  5. Book: Hudson Bay & District Cultural Society. Valley Echoes: Life Along the Red Deer River Basin. Inter-Collegiate Press. 1982. Winnipeg, Manitoba.