| Cadotte Lake | |
| Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta#Canada |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Cadotte Lake |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Alberta |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Northern Alberta |
| Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
| Subdivision Name3: | 17 |
| Subdivision Type4: | Municipal district |
| Subdivision Name4: | Northern Sunrise County |
| Government Type: | Unincorporated |
| Leader Title1: | Governing body |
| Leader Name1: | Northern Sunrise County Council |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Area Footnotes: | (2021) |
| Area Land Km2: | 1.39 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 23 |
| Population Density Km2: | 16.6 |
| Timezone: | MST |
| Utc Offset: | −07:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | MDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −06:00 |
| Coordinates: | 56.4672°N -116.3808°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code: | 780, 587, 825 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Cadotte Lake is an unincorporated community in Northern Sunrise County in northern Alberta, Canada. It is on the northern shore of the homonymous lake, along Highway 986, 79km (49miles) east of Peace River and 68km (42miles) west of the Bicentennial Highway (Highway 88).
It straddles the boundary between the Woodland Cree First Nation Reserve 226 and Northern Sunrise County. The western part of the community, inside the reserve, is known as the Cadotte Lake Indian Settlement,[1] while the eastern part, in Northern Sunrise County, is designated a hamlet.
Cadotte Airport is located 2.7km (01.7miles) east of the settlement.
The community is named for the nearby lake, as is the out-flowing Cadotte River, which lends its name to the Cadotte Member of the Peace River Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cadotte Lake had a population of 23 living in 8 of its 13 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 61. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cadotte Lake had a population of 5 living in 1 of its 14 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 39. With a land area of 1.66km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[3]