Cumberland_House_Provincial_Park
Cumberland House Provincial Park
Provincial park in Saskatchewan, Canada
Cumberland House Provincial Park is a located on Cumberland Island at Cumberland House in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The site is the location of the first inland Hudson's Bay Company post in Saskatchewan and the oldest village in the province.[1] A powder magazine shed (used to store explosives) built in 1886 and artifacts from the HBC Northcote steamship are the remaining historic elements on the site.[2]
The site is located along a distributary called Bigstone River[3] on the eastern edge of the delta made by the Saskatchewan River flowing into Cumberland Lake.
The site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1924,[4] and was protected as a historic park by the provincial government in 1986.[5]