Fort Resolution

Community Name:            Fort Resolution
Traditional Name:              Deninoo Kue (moose island)
Land Claim Area:               Treaty 8 First Nations
Electoral District:              Tu Nedhe
Member of the Legislative Assembly:  Tom Beaulieu
Member of Parliament:     Dennis Bevington
Senator:                                Nick G. Sibbeston
Community Leader:            Mayor Elizabeth Ann Mckay 
                                    Deninoo Community Council
                                    General Delivery 
                                    Fort Resolution, NT  X0E 0M0
                                    Phone:  867-394-4556
                                    e-mail: deninoo@hotmail.com

Location:  Fort Resolution is built on a peninsula (ranging from 158 to 163 m above sea level) southwest of the Slave River Delta on the south shore of Great Slave Lake. The community is located at 61'11'N Latitude and 113'41'W longitude and is 153 air km from Yellowknife.

Population:  528 (2004 Census)

Languages:  Chipewyan, Michif, English

Access:  Fort Resolution is accessible by air and road year-round.

History:   Northwest Company trading post was first established on the Slave River delta in 1786. A few years later it was moved to nearby Moose Deer Island however this site was abandoned when the Fort was rebuilt on Great Slave Lake. St. Joseph's Mission House was moved in 1890 and an RCMP detachment was set up in 1913. In 1938-39 a hospital building was built to treat tuberculosis cases but patients were eventually transferred to Edmonton and the building closed.

Today logging/sawmilling is the primary source of income along with trapping, hunting and domestic fishing.