Miquelon Lake Provincial Park


Miquelon Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in Alberta, Canada, about 65 kilometres southeast of the city of Edmonton. The park features several lakes, the largest of them being Miquelon Lake.

History

In 1920, the area that was to be Miquelon Lake Provincial Park was designated as a bird sanctuary. 1926 A 16ft. deep canal was dug draining the lake in the opposite direction to the Lyseng reservoir in the Battle River watershed to be used by the city of Camrose, much of the lakes water has been drained severely crippling this glacial melt water lake and her watershed, 1944 Camrose needed more water and revisited the lake but found it of poor quality they say the canal was closed but Miquelon waters are still being drained by the provincial government the park was established on May 20, 1958.

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