The Fishing Lakes are a chain of four lakes in the Qu'Appelle Valley cottage country some 40 miles to the northeast of Regina, Canada. The perimeters of Pasqua, Echo, Mission and Katepwa Lakes are the location of several provincial parks, public swimming beaches and are -- where not public property or aboriginal reserves -- intermittantly built up with private cottages and youth summer camps. They are fed by the Qu'Appelle River, by underground aquifiers and by numerous creeks flowing through coulees that open into the valley. Regina, Saskatchewan Regina was the territorial headquarters of the Canadian North West Territories (and district headquarters of the District of Assiniboia) prior to the creation of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1905; since then it has been capital of the province of Saskatchewan. ...

Fort Qu'Appelle, between Echo and Mission Lakes, was originally a Hudson's Bay Company trading post; the original factor's buildings are maintained as a museum. There has been some inclination by would-be tourism-promotion elements to rename the Fishing Lakes as the "Calling Lakes" in order further to stress the legend of the Qu'Appelle Valley. The effort has met with resistence from historically minded locals with authentic roots in the locale and has not thus far met with success. The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC. TSX: HBC) is the oldest corporation in Canada (and the second oldest in North America) and is one of the oldest in the world still in existence. ...

See also

• Assiniboia
• Qu'Appelle