Quill Lake began life under a different name. The community was first established as Lally, after a railway official of the day, and it was later renamed Quill Lake to match the name of its post office. The settlement was built up around the site of an early log school house.
Quill Lake incorporated as a village on December 8, 1906. Its St. Michael's Anglican Church, built between 1907 and 1913, still stands as the village's municipal heritage building. A wood church in the Gothic revival style with a fieldstone foundation, it was once known as the Quill Lake Methodist Church and later the Quill Lake United Church, and it was designated a heritage building in 2000.
The village sits just northwest of the Quill Lakes, a wetland complex that is part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, where many migrating shorebirds stop on their long journeys. Residents like to call their home the "Goose Capital of Saskatchewan."
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