John Neilson Lake
Male, Deceased Person
1834 –
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Who is John Neilson Lake?
John Neilson Lake was originally a preacher for the Methodist Church in Canada and eventually selected the site that became the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1881 John Lake became the Commissioner of the Temperance Colonization Society of Toronto survey party that was formed to take advantage of a government land sale and established the colony. In 1882 John Lake chose the site that site for the settlement that would eventually become the city of Saskatoon. He is sometimes referred to as the “father of Saskatoon”.
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