Fort Selkirk is a former trading post on the Yukon River at the confluence of the Pelly River in Canada 's Yukon . For many years it was home to the Selkirk First Nation ( Northern Tutchone ).
9-534: On February 3, 1947, a temperature of –65 °C (–85 °F) was recorded in Fort Selkirk, which would’ve been considered the coldest temperature in North America. However, the thermometer that was used was placed on the outside wall of a building instead of a standard instrument shelter, so the record was disqualified. The coldest official temperature recorded in Fort Selkirk was –60 °C (–76 °F) on February 3 and 4, 1968 at
18-658: A result of this achievement, Fitzgerald was promoted corporal in 1899. Fort Selkirk was essentially abandoned by the mid-1950s after the Klondike Highway bypassed it and Yukon River traffic died down. Many of the buildings have been restored and the Fort Selkirk Historic Site is owned and managed jointly by the Selkirk First Nation and the Yukon Government's Department of Tourism and Culture. There
27-525: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Robert Campbell (fur trader) Robert Campbell (21 February 1808 – 9 May 1894) was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and explorer. He explored a large part of the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia . He established the short-lived Dease Lake Post, and in 1838 he was the first European to reach the Stikine River overland. He established Fort Frances, Yukon on Frances Lake in
36-400: Is no road access. Most visitors get there by boat, though there is an airstrip, Fort Selkirk Aerodrome , at the site. 62°46′N 137°23′W / 62.767°N 137.383°W / 62.767; -137.383 ( Fort Selkirk ) This military base or fortification article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Yukon location
45-565: The Liard River basin. In 1840 he crossed from Frances Lake to the Pelly River becoming the first European to explore the upper Yukon River Basin. He established Fort Selkirk, Yukon , at the juncture of the Yukon River and the Pelly River . His discoveries led to little financial gain at the time. All of the posts that he established were abandoned within a few years, largely because of to
54-549: The Pelly Ranch Farm. Archaeological evidence shows that the site has been in use for at least 8,000 years. Robert Campbell established a Hudson's Bay Company 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 Athabaskan First Nations , Chilkat Tlingit First Nation warriors attacked and looted
63-529: The Robert Campbell Bridge which connects the suburb of Riverdale to the downtown of Whitehorse, Yukon . This biography about a Canadian businessperson is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fort Halkett Smith River Falls – Fort Halkett Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia , Canada, protecting Smith River Falls and the former Fort Halkett ,
72-675: The high price of transporting trade goods from Hudson Bay , via the Methye Portage and Mackenzie River . Meanwhile, there were already well-established native trading routes leading to nearby Russian Alaska on the Pacific Ocean. He was also for a time in charge of Fort Halkett . Campbell Peak , just south of the British Columbia community of Liard River , is named after him., as is the Robert Campbell Highway , Yukon and
81-540: The post that summer on Saturday, August 21, 1852. 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, Francis Joseph Fitzgerald was the first person of European descent to chart an overland route from Edmonton to Fort Selkirk, Yukon via northern British Columbia and the Pelly River (1897). The voyage took eleven months, having covered about 1,000 miles. As
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