Fort Good Hope Rádeyı̨lı̨kóé Fort Hope, Fort Charles | |
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Charter Community | |
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  Fort Good Hope  Fort Good Hope | |
| Coordinates:66°15′25″N128°38′16″W / 66.25694°N 128.63778°W /66.25694; -128.63778 | |
| Country | Canada |
| Territory | Northwest Territories |
| Region | Sahtu |
| Settlement area | Sahtu |
| Constituency | Sahtu |
| Charter Community | 1 April 1995 |
| Government | |
| • Chief | Collin Pierrot |
| • Senior Administrative Officer | Irvin Eng |
| • MLA | Daniel McNeely |
| Area | |
| • Land | 47.25 km2 (18.24 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 268 m (879 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 507 |
| • Density | 10.7/km2 (28/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−07:00 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−06:00 (MDT) |
| Canadian Postal code | X0E 0H0 |
| Area code | 867 |
| Telephone exchange | 598 |
| - Living cost | 177.5A |
| - Food price index | 166.9B |
| Sources: Department of Municipal and Community Affairs,[2] Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre,[3] Canada Flight Supplement[4] ^A 2013 figure based onEdmonton = 100[5] ^B 2015 figure based onYellowknife = 100[5] | |
Fort Good Hope (formerlyFort Hope,Fort Charles, also now known as theCharter Community of K'asho Got'ine[pronunciation?]), is acharter community in theSahtu Region of theNorthwest Territories, Canada. It is located on a peninsula between Jackfish Creek and the east bank of theMackenzie River, about 145 km (90 mi) northwest ofNorman Wells.
Its population is about 500, mainly indigenous. The two principal languages areNorth Slavey andEnglish. Hunting and trapping are two major sources of income.
TheChurch of Our Lady of Good Hope, aNational Historic Site, is located in the community. The church, completed in 1885, was once home to FatherÉmile Petitot.
The settlement was established as aNorth West Company fur trading outpost in 1804 (or 1805).[6] It was known mainly as Fort Good Hope, but also as Fort Hope and Fort Charles (not the same as the HBC fort from1686) The outpost was relocated several times from the current site; between 1804 and before 1823 somewhere betweenArctic Red River andPeel River (by NWC andHBC) nearTsiigehtchic, 1823 on the west banks of the Mackenzie near what was called Thunder River near where the rivers runs east–west direction north of current site (labelled in A.K. Isbester 1845 map as Old Fort Good Hope), remained there until 1826 relocated onManitou Island.[7] Flooding forced HBC to relocate their outpost twice on the east banks in 1836.[8][7]
The fur outpost ended in 1918[7] and became a HBC retail operation that is now known as Northern Stores.
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| Sources: NWT Bureau of Statistics (2001 - 2023)[17] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, Fort Good Hope had a population of507 living in195 of its231 total private dwellings, a change of-1.7% from its 2016 population of516. With a land area of 47.25 km2 (18.24 sq mi), it had a population density of10.7/km2 (27.8/sq mi) in 2021.[1]
In 2006 theIndigenous population was 465, of which 435 wereFirst Nations, 20Métis and 10Inuit.[16]
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The only all season access is by air,Fort Good Hope Airport, with flights operated byNorth-Wright Airways fromInuvik, Norman Wells andColville Lake.[18] All flights are non-scheduled passenger service. The old airport runway is now Old Airport Road.[6] The community can be accessed in summer using the Mackenzie River. There is no passenger service and the route is primarily used by theNorthern Transportation Company for the summersealift. Winter access is possible via awinter road fromWrigley located further south. The NWT government is seeking federal funding to help extend theMackenzie Highway from Wrigley toTsiigehtchic, where it would connect with theDempster Highway, as of winter 2014 at least eight major river crossings are in place for the new road, some of which are in use as winter crossings.
Fort Good Hope is represented by theK’ahsho Got’ine Community Council and belong to theSahtu Dene Council.[19] Through the council they are in negotiations with theGovernment of Canada for aland claims settlement.
Fort Good Hope currently has three institutes providing some form of education.
Forpre-school, there is the Fort Good Hope Daycare.
Elementary, junior high and senior high school students attend Chief T'Selehye School. The K-12 school is one of five schools under theSahtú Divisional Education Council. The current school was rebuilt in 2011 replace the early 1971 building (renovations 1987 and 1994). It also hosts the community library.
For post secondary educationAurora College Learning Centre located in the town allows students to qualify for admission to Aurora College and meet other college and university admission requirements. The closest campus is Inuvik.
There is no hospital in Fort Good Hope and has basic care from the localcommunity counselling centre. Urgent care can be assessed at Sahtú Got'iné Regional Health and Social Services Centre inNorman Wells and critical care requiring hospitalization toStanton Territorial Hospital inYellowknife (via air ambulance).
RCMP Fort Good Hope detachment provides general policing in community and under north district of "G" Division, West Region.
Fire services are provided from one fire station near RCMP detachment. The service has two pumpers.
Fort Good Hope experiences asubarctic climate (Dfc), with cold winters and short, warm summers. The highest temperature ever recorded was 37.4 °C (99 °F) on 8 July 2023.[20]
Fort Good Hope is said to hold the record for the coldest temperature in Canada outsideYukon, when on 31 December 1910, the temperature was recorded as being −79 °F (−62 °C) by Father Houssais.[21] However, this has been disputed, originally by Father Houssais, amd later by others as thermometer reading error.[22]
| Climate data forFort Good Hope (Fort Good Hope Airport) Climate ID: 2201400; coordinates66°14′27″N128°39′03″W / 66.24083°N 128.65083°W /66.24083; -128.65083 (Fort Good Hope Airport); elevation: 81.4 m (267 ft); 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1907–present[23][24][a]; 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1942–present | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record highhumidex | 4.6 | 1.8 | 16.1 | 21.8 | 30.4 | 36.0 | 38.3 | 35.8 | 25.0 | 22.7 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 38.3 |
| Record high °C (°F) | 6.7 (44.1) | 5.6 (42.1) | 16.2 (61.2) | 21.8 (71.2) | 30.5 (86.9) | 35.0 (95.0) | 37.4 (99.3) | 33.9 (93.0) | 28.3 (82.9) | 22.1 (71.8) | 9.7 (49.5) | 5.3 (41.5) | 37.4 (99.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −22.7 (−8.9) | −19.1 (−2.4) | −12.8 (9.0) | 0.1 (32.2) | 11.7 (53.1) | 21.3 (70.3) | 22.6 (72.7) | 19.0 (66.2) | 10.6 (51.1) | −1.1 (30.0) | −14.2 (6.4) | −20.1 (−4.2) | −0.4 (31.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −26.5 (−15.7) | −23.8 (−10.8) | −19.1 (−2.4) | −6.5 (20.3) | 5.7 (42.3) | 15.3 (59.5) | 16.9 (62.4) | 13.3 (55.9) | 5.8 (42.4) | −4.8 (23.4) | −18.1 (−0.6) | −23.9 (−11.0) | −5.5 (22.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −30.6 (−23.1) | −28.5 (−19.3) | −25.4 (−13.7) | −13.4 (7.9) | −0.4 (31.3) | 9.2 (48.6) | 11.0 (51.8) | 7.8 (46.0) | 1.1 (34.0) | −8.4 (16.9) | −22.2 (−8.0) | −28.1 (−18.6) | −10.7 (12.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −56.2 (−69.2) | −56.2 (−69.2) | −48.3 (−54.9) | −40.0 (−40.0) | −25.0 (−13.0) | −3.3 (26.1) | −1.1 (30.0) | −5.6 (21.9) | −17.0 (1.4) | −38.0 (−36.4) | −47.2 (−53.0) | −52.2 (−62.0) | −56.2 (−69.2) |
| Record lowwind chill | −54.6 | −51.2 | −49.7 | −39.4 | −24.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −4.4 | −15.5 | −31.2 | −43.4 | −56.4 | −56.4 |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 21.0 (0.83) | 19.0 (0.75) | 16.1 (0.63) | 10.2 (0.40) | 14.3 (0.56) | 29.6 (1.17) | 38.2 (1.50) | 41.2 (1.62) | 33.0 (1.30) | 26.6 (1.05) | 22.6 (0.89) | 19.7 (0.78) | 291.4 (11.47) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | — | 7.3 (0.29) | 29.2 (1.15) | — | 38.8 (1.53) | 27.7 (1.09) | — | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | — |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | — | 19.1 (7.5) | 20.3 (8.0) | 17.1 (6.7) | — | 5.2 (2.0) | 0.1 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 6.4 (2.5) | — | 26.0 (10.2) | — |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.2 mm) | 10.2 | 10.5 | 9.4 | 6.4 | 5.6 | 8.1 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 11.0 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 11.4 | 119.7 |
| Average rainy days(≥ 0.2 mm) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2.8 | 7.1 | — | 10.2 | 9.0 | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | — |
| Average snowy days(≥ 0.2 cm) | 8.2 | 8.8 | 8.5 | — | 2.2 | 0.07 | 0.0 | 0.06 | 2.1 | — | 11.5 | — | — |
| Averagerelative humidity (%)(at 1500LST) | 75.4 | 70.7 | 56.0 | 48.7 | 46.5 | 40.7 | 48.7 | 56.5 | 65.3 | 80.8 | 82.9 | 78.8 | 62.6 |
| Source:Environment and Climate Change Canada[25] (January minimum)[26] (February minimum) | |||||||||||||
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