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	Fort Chipewyan - And The Wood Buffalo National Park
		Located on the northwest tip of Lake Athabasca, one of western Canada's largest lakes, Fort Chipewyan is nestled in some of this country's most spectacular natural beauty and wildlife reserves.
		Fort Chipewyan is the launch point for your adventure into Wood Buffalo National Park.
		Only a 40 minute flight from Fort McMurray, your Fort Chipewyan getaway is the ideal "leave your worries behind" retreat.
	www.fortchipewyan.com (192 words)

	Fort Chipewyan, Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Chipewyan is the oldest European settlement in the province of Alberta, Canada.
		The Fort was named after the Chipewyan First Nation living in the area.
		The unincorporated community is part of the expansive Wood Buffalo regional municipality and had a population of 902 living on a land area of 10.24 km² as of the 2001 census.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Chipewyan (429 words)

	Fort Chipewyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A fur-trade eldorado, Fort Chipewyan was the scene of fierce struggles between the NWC, the XY COMPANY and the HUDSON'S BAY CO which culminated in the HBC gaining control in 1821.
		The oldest continuously occupied settlement in Alberta, Fort Chipewyan became a focal point of Peace-Athabasca Delta Project studies after the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.
		On 1 April 1995 the community was included in the amalgamation of the city of FORT MCMURRAY and ID No 143 (previously north and central parts of ID No 18) to form the municipality of Wood Buffalo.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002929 (287 words)

	Fort Chipewyan - Encyclopedia.com
		Fort Chipewyan, trading post, NE Alta., Canada, at the west end of Lake Athabasca.
		The old Fort Chipewyan, on the south shore, was built for the North West Company at the urging of Alexander Mackenzie in 1788.
		Fort Chipewyan homecoming: a journey to Native Canada.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-FortChip.html (460 words)

	Fort Chipewyan
		The Cree drove the Chipewyan Indians north and east of the Athabasca district.
		Fort Chipewyan was relocated to its present site on the northwest shore of Lake Atabasca.
		Fort Wedderburn was abandoned in favor of Fort Chipewyan.
	internet.cybermesa.com /~swede/peace/ftchip.html (1706 words)

	Why is Cancer Sweeping Tiny Fort Chipewyan?
		A generation ago, Lake Athabasca was clear and clean enough that Fort Chipewyan residents drew their drinking water straight from it, and thought nothing about dipping a cup over the side of a canoe during hunting trips.
		Other Fort Chipewyan residents, too afraid to drink from their taps at all, are paying to have bottled water flown in.
		Like many in Fort Chipewyan, the Simpsons began to suspect their surroundings were making them sick after the town's fly-in doctor, John O'Connor, began to push for an official inquiry into what he saw as an astonishingly high number of cancer cases.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines06/0522-05.htm (1360 words)

	Fort Chipewyan. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Fort Chipewyan (chip-uh-WEI-uhn), trading post, NE Alta., Canada, at the west end of L. Athabasca.
		The old Fort Chipewyan, on the south shore, was built for the North West Company at the urging of Alexander Mackenzie in 1788.
		It formed the base from which he set out on his expedition (1789) down the Mackenzie R. to the Arctic Ocean and in 1792 across the mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
	www.bartleby.com /69/13/F02313.html (131 words)

	Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian - Uncorrected OCR Text for volume 18
		Apparently they were Cree, not Chipewyan, for Mackenzie says that it was the former who carried their furs down the river, while the latter made a hazardous and laborious journey over the barren grounds, where they sometimes met death by starvation.
		Fort Chipewyan was the point of departure for Mackenzie's voyage to the Arctic ocean in I789.
		The Chipewyan call this animal "the wary one." The favorite method used to be to surround a bit of swamp or brush in which one was known to be feeding; and while one hunter slowly followed its trail, others disposed themselves in favorable spots and loosed their arrows if the animal came within range.
	curtis.library.northwestern.edu /ocrtext.cgi?vol=18 (15457 words)

	Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
		The three major resource base activities in the Fort Chipewyan area was trapping, fishing and lumbering.
		The only vehicle access to Fort Chipewyan is via a winter road from Fort Smith, 140 kilometers to the north or from Fort McMurray, 303 kilometers.
		The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations is served by the Fort Chipewyan RCMP Detachment.
	www.atc97.org /acfn.html (468 words)

	Featured Articles - Fort Chipewyan's Venerable Churches
		Established in 1788, Fort Chipewyan is Alberta's oldest Euro-Canadian community, and the churches and one school are three of the oldest buildings still standing and in use in the province.
		Until railways and roads replaced waterways as the main transportation corridors, Fort Chipewyan was the service centre for anyone venturing north or west; goods bound for northern missions were also shipped through the community.
		Despite Fort Chipewyan's rich history, most of its historic buildings were demolished, says Oliver Glanfield, president of the local historical society and husband of the Anglican priest, Marjorie Glanfield.
	www.doorsopenalberta.com /alberta_architecture/articles/fort_chipewyan.html (1060 words)

	Alberta Forts
		These were illegal traders from Fort Benton, Montana, trading guns and whiskey to the Blackfoot Indians for buffalo hides and furs.
		Most of the original fort was torn down in 1882 and replaced by newer structures.
		His cousin Sir Alexander Mackenzie departed from this fort on an expedition which led to the discovery of the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories in 1789.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/ab.html (659 words)

	Chipewyan Language and the Chipwyan Indian tribe (Dene Suline)
		Chipewyan is an Athabaskan language of Northern Canada.
		Though many Chipewyan people are bilingual in Chippewa or Cree, it is actually not related to those languages at all.
		Chipewyan is spoken by around 4000 native people in Northern Canada today.
	www.native-languages.org /chipewyin.htm (242 words)

	Backpacker.com - Frozen In Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first and shortest route is to drive via Edmonton to Fort McMurray in northeastern Alberta and either purchase a ticket for a short charter flight (about $225 Canadian round trip on Air Mikisew) into Fort Chipewyan, or hire a boat to escort you up the Athabasca River.
		Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories serves as the park's administrative headquarters and is accessible via Great Slave Lake on AL 5.
		Many intrepid hikers book a room at the Fort Chipewyan Lodge (403-697-3679) on the first and last nights of their stay in the area and spend the other days camping in the park backcountry.
	www.bpbasecamp.com /article/1,2646,586__2_2,00.html (505 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fort Chipewyan homecoming: A journey to native Canada: Books: Mercredi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The cool grey light, the clouds of the wide skies, the look of the shoreline, all have a marvellous subliminal effect as the reader follows Matthew (of English, Scottish, Irish, French, Cree, and Chipewyan ancestry) through a week with his mother's family.
		In this photographic essay, 12-year-old Matthew Dunn takes a trip to Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, Canada, to learn about his Chipewyan, Metis, and Cree heritage.
		His visit to relatives coincides with the community's celebration of Treaty Days, commemorating the 1899 agreement that gave the Chipewyans hunting and fishing rights as well as reservation land.
	www.amazon.ca /Fort-Chipewyan-homecoming-journey-native/dp/1550412906 (494 words)

	Flower Delivery Fort Chipewyan AB Alberta \|Order Fort Chipewyan Flowers Online
		If you want to send flowers, roses, plants, bouquets or balloons to Fort Chipewyan, AB Alberta then you have come to the right place.
		Fort Chipewyan, AB Alberta flower delivery is a service provided by Wesley Berry Flowers since 1946.
		Send Fort Chipewyan, AB Alberta florist greetings to any city or state with a Fort Chipewyan local florist.
	www.800wesleys.com /flowers.Fort_Chipewyan.AB.html (1573 words)

	Fort Chipewyan Lodge Activities/Travel Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fort Chipewyan is located 225 air kilometres north of Fort McMurray and 610 air kilometres northeast of Edmonton.
		Fort McMurray is serviced daily by Canadian Air Lines and Air Canada from Edmonton.
		Fort Chipewyan is serviced daily by Contact Air from Fort McMurray.
	www.fortchipewyanlodge.com /activities.html (124 words)

	Fort Chipewyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		From this post Sir Alexander Mackenzie set out on his epoch-making journeys to the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
		In 1804 this post was abandoned, and a new fort was erected by the North West Company on a rocky point on the north shore of lake Athabaska.
		This post, which became the most important post of the North West Company in the far north, was taken over by the Hudson
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/FortChipewyan.htm (158 words)

	Northland School Division No. 61 :: Contact Us
		Chipewyan Lake can be accessed by air or road.
		Due to freight charges, costs are higher in Fort Chipewyan and Chipewyan Lake.
		Teachers in all communities except Fort Chipewyan and Chipewyan Lake require all “regular” large items furniture except fridge, stove, washer and dryer.
	www.northland61.ab.ca /faq.html (854 words)

	John Amatt's Global Adventures - Report on the Alexander Mackenzie Expedition
		Although the community was initially unprepared for the arrival of the expedition, performances in the school were undertaken by the team and the community prepared a potluck supper with 100 residents turning out to provide entertainment, dancing, fiddling and feasting into the mornings wee hours.
		Poplar trees were beginning to leaf, waterfowl were abundant and the current slowed with the flat terrain as the canoes passed the confluence of the Quatre Fourches and the Peace River, the river that Mackenzie would have to return to three yearn later on his second voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1792-93.
		Fort Simpson, 1,100 persons, is on an island at the mouth of the Liard River where in 1804 a NW Company fort had been constructed.
	www.adventureattitude.com /mackrep.htm (4225 words)

	John Amatt's Global Adventures - Alexander Mackenzie Expedition Concept & Route Map
		The starting point for his explorations was the North West Company’s trading post Fort Chipewyan, located on the south shore of Lake Athabasca in what is now northeast Alberta.
		Alexander Mackenzie left the newly built Fort Chipewyan and embarked in a birch bark canoe with four French-Canadian voyageurs.
		Mackenzie returned to Fort Chipewyan from his exploration to the Arctic Ocean on September 12 after a voyage of 102 days.
	www.adventureattitude.com /mackenz.htm (1130 words)

	Health concerns ignored, Fort Chipewyan residents say (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Despite a seven-year-old study calling for action, residents of a northeastern Alberta town say the province is failing to protect their health.
		Fort Chipewyan residents say they've been complaining for years about high rates of cancers and other serious illnesses, which they suspect are linked to nearby oilsands and pulp and paper operations.
		In March, Dr. John O'Connor, a physician and medical examiner for the remote northern community, about 300 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, confirmed a high number of illnesses in the town, including leukemia, lymphomas, lupus, and autoimmune diseases.
	www.cbc.ca /health/story/2006/05/05/fort-chipewyan.html (1370 words)

	Fanggui Li Collection, American Philosophical Society
		The Li Collection is comprised of ten volumes containing stories in Chipewyan collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by the Chinese-American linguist, Fanggui Li, along with an extensive Chipewyan slip file.
		Li had selected Chipewyan on the belief that it contained more "archaic features" than other Athapascan languages, and believed that it would therefore provide insight into the linguistic evolution of the family.
		The balance of the collection consists of an extensive slipfile for the Chipewyan language, and two audio cassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson in 1982, concering Li's memories of Edward Sapir and other colleagues in linguistics.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/l/li.htm (859 words)

	The Peoples of Fort Chipewyan
		The social roots of Fort Chipewyan predate the fur trade and the arrival of Europeans by thousands of years, to the establishment of Dene (Athapaskan) peoples to the north and west of Lake Athabasca and of Algonkian peoples to the south.
		In fact, neither group was probably aboriginal to the western end of Lake Athabasca, which seems to have been inhabited by the Beaver Indians, an Athapaskan people.
		In local tradition, Peace Point, a location on the north shore of the Peace River in what is now Wood Buffalo National Park, was the site where Beaver and Cree Indians negotiated a peaceful end to their disputes.
	www.albertasource.ca /treaty8/eng/Peoples_and_Places/Northwind_Dreaming/northwind_1.html (361 words)

	Local doctor doubts report on Fort Chipewyan cancer rates
		A provincial report showing no spike in cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan is considered inadequate by the community's only doctor and medical examiner.
		John O'Connor is calling for a more comprehensive report on the health of the northern Alberta community's 1,200 residents.
		Fort Chipewyan community leaders are meeting Tuesday with provincial and federal government officials.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/north/story/2006/07/25/doctor-fortchip.html (1428 words)

	Francis Heron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1815 he deserted to the N.W.C., because of "bad treatment"; and in 1817 Ross Cox met him at Fort Alexander.
		From 1821-27 he was on the Churchill river, and from 1828-31 at Fort Chipewyan.
		In 1832, however, he was discharged from the company's service, and he retired to Canada.
	www.fortlangley.ca /Heron.html (217 words)

	FDI - Chipewyan
		Chipewyan became middlemen beween traders and tribes to the south
		Chipewyan were living on Peace River, but after Cree obtained guns and drove Slaveys tribe from Slave River, the Chipewyan drove off Cree and stayed on Slave River
		Spanish Flu killed many people in Fort Chipewyan, mass graves were dug where the Hudson's Bay Store now stands.
	www.fourdir.com /chipewyan.htm (242 words)

	Fort Chipewyan Lodge - Fort Chipewyan, Alberta
		Incomparable wilderness and history are the backdrop for the Fort Chip Lodge experience, marrying homespun comfort with modern convenience.
		The Fort Chip Lodge is nestled on the border of the Wood Buffalo National Park, making our closest neighbors the largest free-roaming heard of buffalo in the world!
		The sweeping wooden architecture of the Lodge offers ten beautiful rooms, a fully licensed lounge and a dining room offering a floor to ceiling view of the legendary Alberta sunsets, or sunrises for the more ambitious.
	www.fortchipewyanlodge.com (279 words)

	Why is Cancer Sweeping Tiny Fort Chipewyan? \| Mostly Water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A rare and lethal liver cancer plagues Fort Chipewyan, a tidy hamlet of 1,200 at
		Other Fort Chipewyan residents, too afraid to drink from their taps at all, are
		But fear has overridden the patience of the people of Fort Chipewyan.
	mostlywater.org /node/6332 (2139 words)

	Keyano College
		The College has a commitment to Aboriginal education and has been involved with the community of Fort Chipewyan since 1976.
		Residents of Fort Chipewyan can also take advantage of distance education opportunities through an Alberta North Initiative.
		In addition to providing post-secondary programming and distance education, Keyano is the hosting authority for the Fort Chipewyan Adult Learning Council.
	www.keyano.ca /prospective_students/campus/htdocs/fortchip.htm (191 words)

	World Prout Assembly: Why is Cancer Sweeping Tiny Fort Chipewyan? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The company then takes the water used in that processing operation and throws it back into the river.
		It contaminates and poisons the river, flows downstream and eventually reaches Lake Athabasca, the sole water supply of Fort Chipewyan.
		In hundreds of communities we see factories set up which throw their waste water back into once sentient rivers and thus wreak devastation on the surrounding communities - usually in the form of terminal health issues.
	www.worldproutassembly.org /archives/2006/05/why_is_cancer_s.html (1795 words)

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