History Matters: Freak storm on Lake Waskesiu left four dead

Isabella Merrill never forgot ‘the storm.’
In the fall of 1927, she and her husband Harry, a Prince Albert National Park warden, were living in a cabin on the east shore of Waskesiu Lake.
One day, a fierce storm swept across the lake that seemed to blow itself out as quickly as it came up. When interviewed 60 years later, Isabella vividly recalled the spray from the breakers washing over her cabin roof.
Four people were out on the lake when the freak storm hit.
Reuben Dahl, Emile Fab