Francis Joseph Fitzgerald
Francis Joseph Fitzgerald | |
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![]() Insp. Francis Fitzgerald | |
Born | |
Died | 11 February 1911 beside the Peel River south of Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories | (aged 41)
Resting place | Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories |
Police career | |
Country | Canada |
Department | North-West Mounted Police |
Service years | 1888–1911 |
Rank | Inspector |
Memorials | Francis Fitzgerald Bridge in the Halifax Public Gardens |
Francis Joseph Fitzgerald was a Canadian who became a celebrated Boer War veteran and the first commander of the Royal North-West Mounted Police detachment at Herschel Island in the Western Arctic (1903). From December 1910 until February 1911, he led a mail patrol from Fort McPherson southward to Dawson City. When the patrol did not arrive in time, a search party, led by Corporal William Dempster, was sent from Dawson City and found the bodies of Fitzgerald and the other patrol members. The trip became known as "The Lost Patrol" [1] and as "one of Yukon’s greatest tragedies."[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Francis Fitzgerald Bridge, Halifax Public Gardens, Nova Scotia (1911)
Francis Fitzgerald Bridge Plaque
Tomb for "The Lost Patrol", Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories (right of the flagpole)
Dempster Highway, south of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, named after Inspector Dempster who found "The Lost Patrol"
Dempster Highway near the Richardson Mountains
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References[]
- ^ "Civilization.ca - Historic Inuit Art - Francis Joseph Fitzgerald, collector". civilization.ca. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ "Sights and Sites of the Yukon". sightsandsites.ca. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ "Biography – FITZGERALD, FRANCIS JOSEPH – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". biographi.ca. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ "WarMuseum.ca - South African War - 2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles". warmuseum.ca. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ "Yukon: Herschel Island - The Law". museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ Morrison, William R. (January 1986). "F.J. Fitzgerald". Arctic. 39 (1): 104–105. doi:10.14430/arctic2056. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
- ^ *"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2012-07-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- ^ "Community marks 100th anniversary of Lost Patrol". nnsl.com. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
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- People from Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers
- 1869 births
- 1911 deaths
- Military history of Nova Scotia
- History of Yukon
- Disasters in Yukon
- Canadian military personnel of the Second Boer War