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Fort Selkirk

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is owned and managed jointly by the Selkirk First Nation and the Yukon Government's Department of Tourism and Culture. There is no road access. Most visitors get there by boat, though there is an airstrip,
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trading post nearby in 1848. In early 1852, he moved the post to its current location. Resenting the interference of the Hudson's Bay Company with their traditional trade with interior
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The fort was rebuilt about 40 years later and became an important supply point along the Yukon River. At age 28, under the command of Inspector John Douglas Moodie,
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First Nation warriors attacked and looted the post that summer on Saturday, August 21, 1852.
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Archaeological evidence shows that the site has been in use for at least 8,000 years.
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Some of the historic buildings at Fort Selkirk, Yukon. Mountain in background is
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was the first person of European descent to chart an overland route from
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Fort Selkirk was essentially abandoned by the mid-1950s after the
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Ne Ch'e Ddhawa

trading post
Yukon River
Pelly River
Canada
Yukon
Selkirk First Nation
Northern Tutchone

Robert Campbell
Hudson's Bay Company
Athabaskan
First Nations
Tlingit
Francis Joseph Fitzgerald
Edmonton
Yukon
British Columbia
Pelly River
Klondike Highway
Fort Selkirk Aerodrome
Volcano Mountain
Fort Selkirk Volcanic Field
Ne Ch'e Ddhawa
Fort Yukon, Alaska
Canadian Biography Online – Fitzgerald
Virtual Museum Canada
Yukon Heritage Resources Unit

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