How to Pronounce Francis Joseph Fitzgerald
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Apr 12, 1869 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Died on 01 Jan 1911 (aged 41)
Canadian police officer
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About 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 Corporal William 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" and as "one of Yukon’s greatest tragedies."
