Lane Watkins Lake is named in memory of Private Lane William Thomas Watkins. It was named on November 4, 2010 by the Government of Manitoba.
Lane Watkins was born in June 1987 in Winnipeg but raise and educated in Clearwater, Manitoba. Always expressing a keen interest in a career with the military, he joined the Canadian Forces in July 2005 immediately following his high school graduation, and began his basic training in August 2005. Upon completion of his basic training course, he was posted to 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton. He deployed to Afghanistan with his unit in February 2007. Private Lane William Thomas Watkins was killed on July 4, 2007, in Kandahar Province, at the age of 20 years, while serving in Afghanistan.
