Francis Joseph Fitzgerald Explained

Francis Joseph Fitzgerald
Birth Date:12 April 1869
Birth Place:Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death Place:beside the Peel River south of Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories
Resting Place:Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories
Department:North-West Mounted Police
Service:Canada
Serviceyears:1888–1911
Rank:Inspector
Memorials:Francis Fitzgerald Bridge in the Halifax Public Gardens

Francis Joseph Fitzgerald (12 April 1869 – 11 February 1911) 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]

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  1. Web site: Civilization.ca - Historic Inuit Art - Francis Joseph Fitzgerald, collector . civilization.ca . 25 September 2015.
  2. Web site: Sights and Sites of the Yukon . sightsandsites.ca . 25 September 2015.
  3. FITZGERALD, FRANCIS JOSEPH . XIV (1911-1920) . . biographi.ca . 25 September 2015.
  4. Web site: WarMuseum.ca - South African War - 2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles . warmuseum.ca . 25 September 2015.
  5. Web site: Yukon: Herschel Island - The Law . museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca . 25 September 2015.
  6. Morrison . William R. . January 1986 . F.J. Fitzgerald . Arctic . 39 . 1 . 104–105 . 10.14430/arctic2056 . 24 November 2017 . free . 1 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034231/http://arctic.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/view/2056/2033 . dead .
  7. Web site: The Lost Patrol - Royal Canadian Mounted Police . 2012-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130628221825/http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/hist/hh-ps/lost-perdus-eng.htm# . 2013-06-28 . bot: unknown.
  8. News: Community marks 100th anniversary of Lost Patrol . nnsl.com . 25 September 2015 . 25 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150925144235/http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2011-01/jan10_11ann.html . dead .