Location

Falcon Lake Retreat is in Whiteshell Provincial Park, at the far east end of Falcon Lake, Manitoba, on a peninsula of land that is uninhabited except for the retreat itself. There are no roads to the site, and it is accessed by boat in summer and snowmobile in winter. From the public dock at the ski hill parking lot, the retreat is a 10-minute motorboat ride away. Geographically, the retreat center is on the Canadian Shield land formation.

Originally built by monks who retreated to the end of the lake for prayer, meditation, and a simple outdoor lifestyle, the retreat center has been owned by several successive groups over the past eighty years. The retreat stands on leased crown land and is now owned by a non-profit group whose dedicated purpose is the care and management of the site so that it may be offered to individuals, families, and small groups as a place of retreat and renewal. Built on the foundations laid by the first monastic owners, the buildings on the retreat center have continually been rebuilt, renovated, and improved. Still, memories of the past remain in engravings in foundational stone, the stone staircase leading up from the dock, and in marked locations throughout the site.