Abbott Lake is named in memory of Flight Officer Arthur William Abbott. The lake was dedicated on February 6, 1952 by the Government of Saskatchewan.
Arthur William Abbott was born in November 1918 in Herschel, north-west of Rosetown, Saskatchewan. His family had emigrated from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, to homestead near Herschel. Arthur Abbott completed high school at Virden, Manitoba, and was studying engineering at the University of Saskatchewan when he enlisted at Saskatoon in 1940. Trained as an observer, he had been assigned to No. 205 Squadron RAF when his Catalina was shot down over the Indian Ocean off Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), on April 5, 1942. No survivors were found but his crew is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial for airmen with no known grave.
