 In the spring they moved the camp west and built a siding and station (now long gone) where the community's flags and flower garden are now located.The area around Oak Lake is dominated by the Assiniboine River, the nearby lake by the same name, areas of flat farm land, and to the north, large, rolling hills left by receding glaciers.Oak Lake's location in the middle of the Canadian prairies means that Oak Lake experiences an extreme continental climate.