Buffalo Lake
Lake
83 A
Approximately 55 km north-east of Red Deer.
This lake was named on the David Thompson map of 1814 and was labelled "Bull Lake"
on Palliser's map of 1860. The Cree name for it is rendered mustus. Palliser noted the descriptive name was applied "from the resemblance (long ago but not now)" of its outline to a buffalo hide stretched out for the purpose of being dressed. The small stream, "la queue" represented the tail of the animal, according to Palliser's notes. It was also a site of the buffalo hunt. The name in Stoney, is rendered ta-toong-gamna, according to J. B. Tyrrell.