We were held up at this Post, awaiting the clearance of ice from close inshore, so that we could follow the narrow channel to Hay River Post, 75 miles further.
Fort Resolution boasts the usual Fur Trading Post, a large Catholic Mission and a Mounted Police Barracks, but it is mainly an Indian Village. During the Winter months, it is more or less deserted while the Indians are away hunting, but in the Summer, hundreds of Teepees – Indian tents – are erected. There are Dog-ribs & Yellow Knives – the latter tribe coming from the Coppermine River district, where there is an enormous outcrop of pure copper, out of which they make pots, pans, & knives etc, etc.
