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Fort Selkirk fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1847-1852.

Reference:

R7796-0-1-E, MG19-D13

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101379

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Fort Selkirk fonds
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Fonds includes:

4 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1847-1852.

Place:

Fort Selkirk (Yukon):

Place of creation:

Yukon Territory

Extent:

3.8 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of journals kept at the post at the forks of the Lewis and Pelly Rivers, 1847-1852, with a fragment of the journal for Frances Lake, October 1850 to May 1851.

The entries are more extensive than is usual in post journals and a fair copy of entries for the period 1849-1851 is included with the original.

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Fort Selkirk (Yukon)

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Fort Selkirk (Yukon)

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Fort Selkirk (Yukon) : Fort Selkirk was built at the forks of the Lewis (Yukon) and Pelly Rivers in 1848 by Robert Campbell, then master of the fort at Pelly Banks, and operated as a subsidiary of that fort. Campbell, a Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) employee, attempted to develop a trade partnership with the Northern Tutchone. Feeling undermined, the coastal Chilkat Tlingit, Northern Tutchone's primary trade partner, looted and vandalized Fort Selkirk in August 1852. Fort Selkirk likely burned down several years later.

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid is a file list of the records in volume 1 (H-2341). MSS2644 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003482.pdf

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Custodial history:

Received in 1929 from W. Bennett Munro of Pasadena, Calif.

Availability of other formats note:

Also available on reel H-2341.
Subject heading:

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Pelly River (Yukon)

Trading posts Canada 19th century

Fur trade Canada 19th century
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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121-020362-6
1994/0097

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MG19-D13
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG19 D 13] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Microfilm reel [MG19 D 13] H-2341

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Textual records: The originals have been withdrawn from circulation; researchers must use the microfilm, reel H-2341 or the photocopies in volume 2.

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