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All services such as mail, medical help, maintenance work and social services are dependent upon good flying conditions. Television services are not up to par compared to southern counterparts. Movie entertainment is limited to individual residents who own v.c.r's or satellite dishes. The attractive village is situated in a small bay, with houses scattered among the spruce and jackpine, and a small wooded park lining the lakeshore. The fish plant buildings cluster beside the dock, and up the slope stands the white-painted co-operative store. Through the trees to the south is a tiny log church which has witnessed the weddings of most of the second and third generation residents of Kinoosao. The birth of the community was not the location of a traditional settlement. Kinoosao had its birth in 1952, when a fisherman's co-operative decided to build a processing plant there to serve the Reindeer Lake commercial fishing industry. There were no all weather roads to the Reindeer Lake region in those days, and the shortest route to markets in the south was a winter trail leading to Flin Flon in Manitoba. A central position on the eastern shore was chosen because it was near the main fishing areas, and there was the possibility of a road to Lynn Lake, 100 kilometers away, and a railway link to the south. Materials for the plant were hauled up the winter trail and delivered to what had been named Co-op Point. The point turned out to be too small for the operation and construction of the plant was moved to the bay. When a name was needed for the post office, the settlement was renamed Kinoosao, although the old name Co-op Point still lingers on with many residents. Long time Kinoosao resident Swenke Martinson said that among the founders of the fisherman's coperative were John Oslund, a farmer from Smeaton, Ben Larson, originally from Norway, Steine Oskarson, an Icelander, and John Ivanchuk, who began trapping north of Brochet in 1927 and was later to own a tourist camp on Reindeer Lake. Swenke was a commercial fisherman on the lake from 1943 to 1975, when he began looking after the Kinoosao power generators. Other early fishermen were Ted Bowerman and Pete Edwards, who tested new equipment on the lake, and Sid Wilson, who later opened a tourist camp. Kinoosao resident Norville Olson mentioned his father, Olaf worked for 22 years at the Whitesand Dam before retiring for Southend During the past decade, there have been changes in Kinoosao, electricity is provided and street lights align the roads. The Northern Lights School Division constructed a creative playground and a ball diamond in the school yard for the students and the community. A satellite dish provides television services to the community along with telephone services within the community. Source: Denosa, February, 1982 For a list of businesses in Kinoosao, click here. For the Environment Canada weather forecast for Kinoosao, click here. | |||||||
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