Deer Lake is a First Nation community on the Deer Lake Indian Reservation. The community is located in the province of Ontario in the country of Canada. It is the home of the Deer Lake First Nation Band. On a provincial or national map the community appears as a small dot in northwestern Ontario very near the border with the province of Manitoba. The community is a fly in community meaning that the only year round access to the community is by small airplanes landing on a gravel runway.
I taught at the old David Meekis Memorial School in Deer Lake during the 1998-1999 school year. The school was just a series of classrooms without a gymnasium, industrial arts room, home economics room or other facilities that Canadian schools typically have. While I was teaching in Deer Lake I was aware that the community was attempting to negotiate with the federal government to build them a new school. At the end of the school year as I was packing to leave the community some workmen were busy cutting down trees and putting wooden stakes in the ground at the proposed site for the new school. A few years later I saw photographs on the internet showing the old school building burning completely down to ashes.
If you want further information about Deer Lake then you can try visiting the Deer Lake website at http://deerlake.firstnation.ca. I would also highly recommend that you visit the Kuhkenah Network (K-Net) website at: http://www.knet.ca for information about all of the First Nation communities of northwestern Ontario.
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