Fort Yukon

Built by Alexander Hunter Murray of the Hudson's Bay

Company, at the mouth of Porcupine River in 1847. John Bell had

descended the Porcupine to its mouth in 1844. Although Fort Yukon was on

Russian territory, the Company maintained it until the sale of Alaska to

the United States, when they were summarily ejected, 1869. The Company

thereupon moved up the Porcupine to the Ramparts, where they built

Rampart House, then supposed to be on British territory, but proved to

be west of the boundary. The fort was moved twelve miles up the river,

and in 1890 was again moved to the eastward. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Built by

Murray (not Bell) near mouth of Porcupine River, 125. =Bib.=: Murray,

Journal (Canadian Archives, 1910).