Aadland Lake is named in memory of Rifleman Richard (Dick) Aadland. The lake was dedicated on June 2, 1950 by the Government of Saskatchewan.
Dick Aadland was born in September 1904 in Norway. His family emigrated to Minnesota in 1906, but later moved to Chambery, just south of Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. A homesteader by trade, Richard Aadland joined the Regina Rifles in 1943 at the age of 39. His brother Peter served in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, his brother Clarence in the RCAF, and his sister Greda in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps. Dick Aadland was killed in February 1945 near Cleve, Germany during operations to clear the west bank of the Rhine. He is buried in Groesbeek War Cemetery in the Netherlands.
