Fort Selkirk

Fort Selkirk was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post established in 1848 by Robert Campbell at the confluence of the Pelly and Yukon rivers in what is now Yukon, Canada. Its purpose was to trade with local Indigenous populations. The post was burned by hostile Indigenous people in 1852, leading to a withdrawal of European presence from the upper Yukon basin for two decades. The Yukon River itself is a major North American river flowing through Yukon and Alaska, eventually emptying into the Bering Sea. The region gained international attention during the Klondike gold rush of 1896.12