Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories

Infobox Settlement
name = Fort McPherson
native_name = Teet'lit Zhen
other_name = Location map polarx
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long = -134.881944
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settlement_type = Hamlet
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Canada
subdivision_type1 = Territory
subdivision_name1 = Northwest Territories
subdivision_type2 = Region
subdivision_name2 = Inuvik Region
subdivision_type3 = Constituency
subdivision_name3 = Mackenzie Delta
subdivision_type4 = Census division
subdivision_name4 = Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Bill Prodromidis
leader_title1 = Senior Administrative Officer
leader_name1 = Deanna Black
leader_title2 = MLA
leader_name2 = David Krutko
established_title = Hamlet
established_date = 1 November 1986
area_land_km2 = 53.06
elevation_m = 43
latd= 67.435278
longd= -134.881944
population_total = 776
population_density_km2 = 14.6
timezone = Mountain (MST)
utc_offset = −7
timezone_DST = MDT
utc_offset_DST = −6
postal_code_type = Canadian Postal code
postal_code = X0E 0J0
area_code = 867
blank_name = Telephone exchange
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footnotes = Sources:Community Governance Data List [http://www.maca.gov.nt.ca/governments/printpage.asp?Other=FALSE Community Governance Data List] ] ,
2006 Canada Census, [http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/profiles/community/Details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6107009&Geo2=PR&Code2=61&Data=Count&SearchText=Fort%20Good%20Hope&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom= 2006 Census] ]
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre [http://www.pwnhc.ca/programs/downloads/OfficialCommunityNames.pdf Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre - official names] ] ,
Fort McPherson profile at the Legislative Assembly [ [http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/_live/pages/wpPages/mapfortmcpherson.aspx Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Fort McPherson profile] ]
Canada Flight Supplement [CFS]

Fort McPherson (Gwich’in language: Teet'lit Zhen {at the head of the waters}) is a hamlet located in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located on the east bank of the Peel River and is 121 km (75 mi) south of Inuvik on the Dempster Highway.

Population is 776 according to the 2006 Census, a slight increase over the 2001 Census count of 761. In the 2001 Census 710 people identified as aboriginal, 440 as First Nations, 50 as Métis, 20 as Inuit or Inuvialuit, 205 giving multiple or other aboriginal responses and 50 Non-Aboriginal. [ [http://www12.statcan.ca/english/profil01/AP01/details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6107015&Geo2=PR&Code2=61&Data=Count&SearchText=Fort%20McPherson&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=All Fort McPherson at the 2001 Census] ]

The two principal languages spoken are Gwich'in and English. Fort McPherson is accessible by road all year from Dawson City and Whitehorse, Yukon, with the exception of spring break-up and fall freeze-up on the Peel River. The community also has access to Inuvik via the Dempster Highway and crosses the Mackenzie River at Tsiigehtchic.

Originally the site of a Hudson's Bay Company post the community was named for "Murdoch McPherson".

The Gwich’in people of Fort McPherson are very welcoming of strangers and go out of their way to make them welcome. Most people have vehicles and regularly make trips to either Inuvik, or Whitehorse.

ee also

*Fort McPherson Airport
*Fort McPherson Water Aerodrome

References

Further reading

* Carefoot, E. I., and N. A. Lawrence. "Utility Study Settlement of Ft. McPherson for Department of Public Works, Government of the Northwest Territories". Edmonton: Associated Engineering Services, 1972.
* Gallupe, Scott. "Husky Lake, Fort McPherson Area Historic Hydrocarbon Exploration Investigation June 29 1992". Inuvik, NT: Northern Affairs Program, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1992.
* Kakfwi, Stephen. "Literacy Program Funding, Fort McPherson". Yellowknife?, N.W.T.: Northwest Territories, Executive Council, 1991.
* Manitoba Free Press. "Pemmican Made at Fort McPherson, a Hudson's Bay Company's Post Sixty-Five Miles Within the Arctic Circle and Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-Eight Miles Northwest of Winnipeg A Christmas Present from the Manitoba Free Press". Winnipeg: [s.n.] , 1902. ISBN 0665783248
* Northern Engineering Services Company, and Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited. "Report on All-Weather Road from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Fort McPherson, N.W.T". [Canada?] : Northern Engineering Services, 1972.
* Northwest Territories, and Jane Gilmartin Gilchrist Collection (Newberry Library). "Gwich'in Alphabet Posters Fort McPherson Dialect". [Fort McPherson] : Northwest Territories, Dept. of Education, Programs and Evaluation Branch, 1981.
* Ripley, Klohn & Leonoff International Limited. "Community Granular Materials Inventory Fort McPherson, N.W.T". [s.l.] : Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1972.

External links

* [http://www.stats.gov.nt.ca/Infrastructure/Comm%20Sheets/McPherson.html Fort McPherson at the GNWT]
* [http://www.maca.gov.nt.ca/governments/communityresult.asp?ComCode=402 Municipal Affairs and Community Administration profile]