Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories

Fort McPherson ( Gwich'in: Teetl'it Zheh, dt: " At the head of water" ) is a municipality in the Canadian Northwest Territories. The community had in the collection of 2006 776 inhabitants.

It was founded in 1849 when John Bell, a researcher with the Hudson 's Bay Company established a trading post along the Peel River. After numerous floods this was later moved to a higher location. This office was first named Peel River House, but later renamed after Murdoch McPherson.

Fort McPherson is located on the east bank of the Peel River, 121 kilometers south of Inuvik and is connected by the Dempster Highway with her. Languages ​​spoken English and Gwich'in.

The place went through a funeral in history. In the cemetery next to the Anglican Church Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald, Constable GF Kinney, ROH Taylor and Sam Carter of the Royal North West Mounted Police ( RNWMP ) are buried, the history of the Lost Patrol is told today, as they 1910/1911 to a patrol dog sled trailer combinations from Fort McPherson to Dawson were traveling, because of the rigors of the arctic weather and apparently inaccurate knowledge of the area but had to turn around and froze to death on the way back, about 30 miles from Fort McPherson and starved.

Fort McPherson should not be confused with the homonymous United States Army military base in East Point (Georgia ).