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Who established Fort Selkirk at the meeting of the Pelly and Yukon rivers?
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Yukon River
Five Finger Rapid on the upper Yukon River in Yukon.
Robert Campbell, a trader with the Hudson’s Bay Company, established the trading post at Fort Selkirk in 1848 at the junction of the Pelly and Yukon rivers. He founded the post to facilitate trade with the local Indigenous peoples. However, the post was burned by hostile groups in 1852, leading to a two-decade withdrawal of Europeans from the upper Yukon basin.1