La Ronge is the largest community in Northern Saskatchewan with over 3500 people residing in the town itself and about 2000 people on the adjacent First Nations lands of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and some 1000 people residing in the bordering settlement of Air Ronge.

This dynamic and rapidly evolving community has a history and prehistory that encompasses the trials, triumphs and tribulations of the Woodland Cree peoples who have lived here for uncounted generations. The community has also born the mark and seen the passage of the explorers and traders of legend such as McKenzie and Pond. La Ronge is situated on the southwest shore of the lake that gives it its name, a lake that is a major tributary to the Churchill River system. Historically La Ronge has been a travellers crossroads, a trading outpost, a missionary settlement, a fishery center and a tourist Mecca.