Fort Selkirk Historic site is located on Northern Tutchone territory just below the mouth of the Pelly River and about halfway between Whitehorse and Dawson City. The site is co-owned and co-managed by the Selkirk First Nation and the Yukon Government. New exhibits were installed at two interpretive centres in 2001. The primary centre, known as the Stone House, was built by government telegraph operator Charlie Stone in 1935 and is intended as a reception area to orient visitors to the site. The second centre is located in the reconstructed Big Jonathan House, originally built by the Yukon Field Force as a barrack in 1898 and later used as a home by a former Selkirk chief. Here displays focus on the heritage of the Selkirk First Nation. The two interpretive centres are over half a kilometre apart and anchor the ends of the linear, kilometre-long site along the bank of the Yukon River. Archaeological evidence indicates human use and occupation dating back as far as 7,000 years at the site, and up to 11,300 years in the region.
http://register.yukonhistoricplaces.ca/Place/1170
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