Fort Collinson was a
trading post
A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded.
Typically the location of the trading post would allow people from one geographic area to tr ...
operated by the
Hudson's Bay Company
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(Post Number B.405) located on
Victoria Island
Victoria Island ( ikt, Kitlineq, italic=yes) is a large island in the Arctic Archipelago that straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the List of islands by area, eighth-largest island in the world, ...
in the
Northwest Territories
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, Canada. It is situated on the
Prince Albert Peninsula
Prince Albert Peninsula is located on northwest Victoria Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is separated from Banks Island by the Prince of Wales Strait. Two large waterways, Richard Collinson Inlet and Minto Inlet are to the north a ...
on the north side of
Walker Bay
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, just north of
Minto Inlet
Minto Inlet is located east of Amundsen Gulf in western Victoria Island, at the southern end of Prince of Wales Strait in the Northwest Territories. It is long and between wide.
The inlet is part of the historical territory of the Copper Inuit. ...
.
Previously known as Fort Brabant
Hudson's Bay Company. Fort Collinson
/ref> the post opened in 1928 when it was moved from its prior location at Alaervik on the north side of Prince Albert Sound
Prince Albert Sound (Inuit: ''Kangiryuak'') is a Northern Canadian body of water located in the Inuvik Region of southwestern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories. It is an inlet of Amundsen Gulf. The sound separates the Wollaston Peninsula ...
.
Named in honour of Sir Richard Collinson
Admiral Sir Richard Collinson (7 November 1811 – 13 September 1883) was an English naval officer and explorer of the Northwest Passage.
Early life
He was born in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, then part of County Durham. He joined the R ...
, an English naval officer and explorer of the Arctic
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, the post closed in 1939 when it was transferred to Holman, now Ulukhaktok
Ulukhaktok (Kangiryuarmiutun (Inuit language) spelling ''Ulukhaqtuuq'' () and known until 1 April 2006 as ''Holman'' or ''Holman Island'') is a small hamlet on the west coast of Victoria Island, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, ...
.
References
Further reading
* Condon, R.G. ''East meets West: Fort Collinson, the fur trade, and the economic acculturation of the northern Copper Inuit
Copper Inuit, also known as Kitlinermiut and Inuinnait, are a Canadian Inuit group who live north of the tree line, in what is now the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut and in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Ter ...
, 1928-1939''.
Hudson's Bay Company forts
Ghost towns in the Northwest Territories
Collinson
Victoria Island (Canada)
Former populated places in the Inuvik Region
1928 establishments in the Northwest Territories
1939 disestablishments in the Northwest Territories
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