Shell Lake, Saskatchewan


Shell Lake is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Spiritwood No. 496 and Census Division No. 16. This village is 90 kilometres west of the City of Prince Albert. It was formerly part of the Rural Municipality of Shell Lake No. 495 before it was absorbed by the RM of Spiritwood No. 496. The Shell Lake murders took place on a nearby farm. It is the administrative centre of the Ahtahkakoop Cree First Nation band government.

History

Shell Lake incorporated as a village on October 18, 1940.

Demographics

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Shell Lake recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2016.
In the 2011 Census of Population, the Village of Shell Lake recorded a population of, a change from its 2006 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2011.