Located in central Saskatchewan, Prince Albert National Park showcases the amazing ecological diversity found in the transition between prairie fescue grasslands and the lakes and wetlands of the mixed wood boreal forest. Situé dans le centre de la Saskatchewan, le parc national de Prince Albert met en vedette l’incroyable diversité écologique qui caractérise la zone de transition entre les prairies à fétuque, et les lacs et milieux humides de la forêt boréale mixte. Source: Parks Canada Website (2022)

Established: 1927 For More Information Please Visit The OFFICIAL PARKS CANADA WEBSITE Pour plus d’informations veuillez visiter LE SITE WEB OFFICIEL DE PARCS CANADA Saskatchewan

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Activity Guide 2015	Guide d'activités 2015	Activity Guide 2016	Guide d'activités 2016
Activity Guide 2017	Activity Guide & Trail Map 2018	Guide d'activités 2018
Activity Guide & Trail Map 2019	Guide d'activités et carte des sentiers 2019	ka-tōcikātīk kīkwāy kiskinotahiwīwin īkwa pimohtīwi-mīskanaw askīwasinahikan 2019	Activity Guide & Trail Map 2020
Activity Guide & Trail Map 2021	Guide d'activités et carte des sentiers 2021	Activity Guide & Trail Map 2022	Guide d'activités et carte des sentiers 2022
Activity Guide & Trail Map 2023	Guide d'activités et carte des sentiers 2023
Winter Adventure Guide 2012	Winter Guide 2014	Guide des activités hivernales 2014
Winter Guide 2016-2017	Guide des activités hivernales 2016-2017	Winter Guide & Trail Map 2017-2018	Guide des activités hivernales et carte des sentiers 2017-2018
Winter Guide & Trail Map 2020-2021	Guide des activités hivernales et carte des sentiers 2020-2021	Winter Guide & Trail Map 2021-2022	Guide des activités hivernales et carte des sentiers 2021-2022
Winter Guide & Trail Map 2022-2023	Guide des activités hivernales et carte des sentiers 2022-2023	Winter Guide & Trail Map 2023-2024	Guide des activités hivernales et carte des sentiers 2023-2024
Summer Programs 2016		Summer Programs 2016
Beaver Glen Campground/Terrain de camping Beaver Glen Date Unknown		Red Deer Campground/Terrain de camping Red Deer Date Unknown
Horse-Use Guide c2010s	Guide concernant l'utilisation des chevaux c2010s	Phase 1 Opening 2020
Routes to Grey Owl's Cabin 2013		Pour se rendre à la Cabane de Grey Owl 2013
Bagwa Canoe Route 2013			Mud Creek Self-Guiding Nature Trail 1993
Boundary Bog Nature Trail Date Unknown	Sentier du Marais-Limitrophe Date Unknown	Treebeard Nature Trail Date Unknown	Sentier de la Barbe-de-Capucin Date Unknown
Maps
1:125,000 1973

Management Plan / Plan directeur (Parks Canada, 2008)

Management Plan / Plan directeur Draft (Parks Canada, 2017)

Management Plan Review Bulletin #1 / Examen du plan directeur Bulletin No. 1 (Parks Canada, 2017)

Management Plan, Prince Albert National Park of Canada / Plan directeur, Parc national du Canada de Prince Albert (Parks Canada, 2018)

Provisional Master Plan, Prince Albert National Park / Plan-cadre provisoire, Parc national Prince-Albert (Parks Canada, c1971)

Waskesiu Community Plan / Plan communautaire de Waskesiu (Parks Canada, amended 2015)

Waskesiu Townsite: Vision 2020 and Beyond — Community Action Plan (Waskesiu Community Council, August 2015)

'A Case of Special Privilege and Fancied Right': The Shack Tent Controversy in Prince Albert National Park (Bill Waiser, Network in Canadian History & Environment, February 14, 2011)

A Study in Conviction and Fantasy: A.S. Belaney and Grey Owl, 1888-1938 Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 378 (James Shortt, Parks Canada, 1980)

A Survey of the Human History of Prince Albert National Park, 1887-1945 (James Shortt, Parks Canada, 1977)

Adaptive Governance for Fire Management Planning: A Case Study on Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan (©Åsa Almstedt, Master's Thesis University of Saskatchewan, November 2010)

An Analysis of the 1984 Walleye, Stizostedion vitreum vitreum (Mitchill), Run at Crean Lake in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan with Reference to the Impact of Spawn-taking Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 1407 (J.A. Mathias, J.A. Babaluk and K.D. Rowes, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, December 1985)

Assessment of Environmental and Human Health Effects from Proposed Application of Foray 48B in Waskesiu, Prince Albert National Park of Canada (AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd. for Parks Canada, April 2003)

At the Edge: The North Prince Albert Region of the Saskatchewan Forest Fringe to 1940 (Merle Mary Muriel McGowan Massie, University of Saskatchewan, December 2010, ©Merle Massie)

Backcountry Users Research Report (Final) (Western Opinion Research for Parks Canada, May 3, 2007)

Bees from Prince Albert Park, Saskatchewan (T.D.A. Cockerell, American Museum Novitates, No. 983, May 12, 1938)

Brûlage dirigé dans la prairie de l'extrémité sud, Parc National du Canada de Prince Albert (Parks Canada, 2015)

Camp #9: An Historical and Archaeological Investigation of a Depression Era Relief Camp in Prince Albert National Park (©Michael St. Denis, Master's Thesis University of Saskatchewan, Fall 2002)

Chronic stress and body condition of wolf-killed prey in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan (Justin R. Shave, Andrew E. Derocher, Seth G. Cherry and Gregory W. Thiemann, extract from Conservation Physiology, Vol. 7, 2019)

DDT Study at Prince Albert National Park / Étude sur le DDT au parc national de Prince Albert (Parks Canada, Summer 2010)

Fescue Grassland Restoration Program, Prince Albert National Park (Dustin Guedo, Parks Canada, undated)

Final Report of the 1973 Archaeological Survey of Prince Albert National Park: Findings and Recommendations Manuscript Report Number//Travail inédit numéro 319 (Eugene M. Gryba, Parks Canada, 1974)

Fire hazard classification for Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan Information Report NOR-X-58 (A.D. Kiil, R.J. Lieskovsky and J.E. Grigel, Canadian Forest Service, April 1973)

Forest insects and diseases in eight of the western Canadian national parks, 1971 Information Report NOR-X-12 (W.G.H. Ives, Canadian Forest Service, January 1972)

Forest insects and diseases in eight western Canadian national parks, 1973 Information Report NOR-X-90 (F.J. Emond, J. Petty, G.J. Smith and V.B. Patterson, Canadian Forest Service, May 1974)

Forest insects and diseases in nine of the western Canadian national parks, 1972 Information Report NOR-X-62 (V.B. Patterson, E.J. Gautreau, G.J. Smith, R.M. Caltrell and J.P. Susut, Canadian Forest Service, April 1973)

Forest insects collected in Prince Albert National Park, 1948-1971 Information Report NOR-X-108 (K. Mortenson, F.J. Emond and J.C.E. Melvin, Canadian Forest Service, June 1974)

Geology of the Prince Albert National Park (E.A. Christiansen, Saskatchewan Institute of Pedology, undated)

Grey Owl / Grey Owl (Parks Canada, 1985)

Guide to the Geology of Prince Albert National Park: A story of hills, lakes and beaches Miscellaneous Report 21 (A.H. Lang, Geological Survey of Canada, 1974)

Habitat Segregation Among Songbirds in Old-Growth Boreal Mixedwood Forest (Enid E. Cumming, extract from The Canadian Field-Naturalist, Vol. 118 No. 1, 2004, ©The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club)

Hearings on Prince Albert National Park (extract from The Blue Jay, Vol. 29 No. 3, September 1971)

Heritage Character Statements / Énoncés de valeur patrimoniale, Prince Albert National Park

Anahareo's Cabin / Cabane d'Anahareo (FHBRO No. 85-63, January 8, 1996, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Assembly Hall (Building #20) / Salle de réunion (bâtiment n^o 20) (FHBRO No. 85-63, December 10, 1993, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Community Hall / Salle communautaire (FHBRO No. 84-06, June 27, 1985, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Doctor's Residence and Clinic (C-5) / Résidence du médecin et clinique médicale (C-5) (FHBRO No. 85-54, September 12, 1994, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Golf Clubhouse / Pavillon de golf (FHBRO No. 85-63, May 3, 1989, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Grey Owl's Cabin / Cabane de Grey Owl (FHBRO No. 85-63, January 1, 1996, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Nature Centre (Museum Building) / Pavillon d'histoire naturelle (musée) (FHBRO No. 85-63, December 4, 1991, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

South Gate Registration Building (Building #3) / Bâtiment d'inscription de l'entrée sud (Bâtiment n^o 3) (FHBRO No. 85-63, May 28, 1991, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Superintendent's Residence/Garage / Résidence et garage du surintendant (FHBRO No. 85-63, January 8, 1996, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

W.L. Mackenzie Cottage / Cottage W.L. Mackenzie King (FHBRO No. 85-63, January 8, 1996, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Wardens' Equipment Building / Bâtiment d'équipement des gardes (FHBRO No. 85-63, August 1, 1990, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Warden's Headquarters/Visitor Centre / Poste central des gardes/centre d'accueil (FHBRO No. 85-63, May 3, 1990, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Historical changes in caribou distribution and land cover in and around Price Albert National Park: land management implications (Maria L. Arlt and Micheline Manseau, extract from Rangifer, Special Issue 19, 2011, The 12th North American Caribou Workshop)

History of Shack Tenting (©Waskesiu Heritage Museum, 2020)

Insect and disease hazard in relation to stand stability: Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan Information Report NOR-X-60 (J. Petty and E.J. Gautreau, Canadian Forest Service, April 1973)

Investigation of the spawning of northern pike in Prince Albert National Park, 1953 Canadian Wildlife Service Wildlife Management Bulletin Series 3, Number 4 (F.H. Schultz, Canadian Wildlife Service, 1955)

Long-term responses of birds to the creation of a community fuel break in the western boreal forest of Canada: implications for management within protected areas (Keith A. Hobson and Kevin J. Kardynal, extract from Avian Conservation & Ecology, Vol. 14, Issue 2, Article 5, 2019)

Monitoring Wilderness Quality: Kingsmere Wilderness Area, Prince Albert National Park (©Wayne R. Tucker, Master's Thesis University of Calgary, September 1998)

Mud Creek Trail (Parks Canada, undated)

Observations of the use of buildings by free-ranging Elk, Cervus canadensis, in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan (Ryan K. Brook, extract from The Canadian Field-Naturalist, Vol. 129 No. 3, 2015, ©The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club)

Populations and movements of the Saskatchewan timber wolf (Canis lupus knightii) in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, 1947 to 1951 Canadian Wildlife Service Wildlife Management Bulletin Series 1, Number 4 (A.W.F. Banfield, Canadian Wildlife Service, 1951)

Prescribed Burning Has Limited Long-Term Effectiveness in Controlling Trembling Aspen, (Populus tremuloides) Encroachment into Fescue Grassland in Prince Albert National Park (Digit D. Guedo and Eric G. Lamb, extract from The Canadian Field-Naturalist, Vol. 127 No. 1, 2013, ©The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club)

Prince Albert National Park creel census analysis, season 1948 Canadian Wildlife Service Wildlife Management Bulletin Series 3, Number 1 (V.E.F. Solman, Canadian Wildlife Service, 1950)

Prince Albert National Park Interpretive Program (Ron Dutcher, extract from The Blue Jay, Vol. 33 No. 2, June 1975)

Prince Albert National Park Nature Centre: Revised Interpretive Plan (Carlene Gorecki, Don Enright and Scott Stephen, Parks Canada, November 16, 2012)

Seasonal and inter-annual variation in diet for gray wolves Canis lupus in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan (Justin R. Shave, Seth G. Cherry, Andrew E. Derocher and Daniel Fortin, extract from Wildlife Biology, 2020)

Sizing up the Catch: Native-Newcomer Resource Competition and the Early Years of Saskatchewan's Northern Commercial Fishery (Anthony G. Gulig, extract from Saskatchewan History, Vol. 47 No. 2, Fall 1995, ©Saskatchewan Archives Board)

Summary of prescribed fire in Prince Albert National Park 2015 (Parks Canada, 2015)

Take me to Waskesiu (Jim Sutherland, extract from cottagelife.com, May 2017)

The birds of Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan Canadian Wildlife Service Wildlife Management Bulletin Series 2, Number 4 (J.D. Soper, ©Environment Canada, 1952)

The Flora of Prince Albert National Park (Vernon L. Harms, undated)

The Great Fire of 1919 (Peter J. Murphy, Cordy Tymstra and Merle Massie, extract from Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2015)

The Limnology and Fisheries of Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan (D.W. Mayhood, March 1974)

The Waskesiu Community Fuel Break, Prince Albert National Park: 15-year review of a fuel modification project in the boreal forest (Dean MacDonald, Parks Canada, c2016)

Unemployment Relief Camps in Saskatchewan, 1933-1936 (Lorne A. Brown, extract from Saskatchewan History, Vol. 23 No. 3, Autumn 1970, ©Saskatchewan Archives Board)

Xplorers (Parks Canada)

P.A.N.P. Early Years (1942)

The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the books which have been published for this park. ParksCanadaHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

Prince Albert National Park M.B. Williams, 1928	Prince Albert National Park M.B. Williams, c1932	Guide to the Geology of Prince Albert National Park: A story of hills, lakes and beaches A.H. Lang 1974	cover only Saskatchewan's Playground: A History of Prince Albert National Park Bill Waiser 1989
cover only Waskesiu and its Neighbours: A Casual Illustrated History Graham A. MacDonald and Grit McCreath 2008	cover only Forest Prairie Edge: Place History in Saskatchewan Merle Massie 2014	cover only The Amazing Wildlife in the Prince Albert National Park Michael Holmes 2018