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Francis Joseph Fitzgerald : ウィキペディア英語版 | Francis Joseph Fitzgerald
Francis Joseph Fitzgerald was a Nova Scotian who became a celebrated Boer War veteran and the first commander of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police detachment at Herschel Island in the Western Arctic (1903). From December 1910 until February 1911, he led a mail patrol from Fort McPherson southward to Dawson City. When the patrol did not arrive in time, a search party led by Inspector William John Duncan Dempster, was sent from Dawson City and found the bodies of Fitzgerald and the other patrol members. The trip became known as "The Lost Patrol" 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Civilization.ca - Historic Inuit Art - Francis Joseph Fitzgerald, collector )〕 and as "one of Yukon’s greatest tragedies."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sights and Sites of the Yukon )〕 == Early life ==
Fitzgerald served with the militia in Halifax until the age of 19 and then enlisted as a constable in the North-West Mounted Police on 19 November 1888. He spent the next nine years in the Maple Creek District, Saskatchewan. At age 28, under the command of Inspector John Douglas Moodie, Fitzgerald was the first to chart an overland route from Edmonton to Fort Selkirk, Yukon via northern British Columbia and the Pelly River (1897). The voyage took eleven months, having covered about 1,000 miles (1 600 km). As a result of this achievement, Fitzgerald was promoted corporal in 1899.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography – FITZGERALD, FRANCIS JOSEPH – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography )〕
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