Sources: Department of Municipal and Community Affairs,[2] Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre,[3] Canada Flight Supplement[4] ^A 2013 figure based on
Edmonton = 100[5] ^B 2015 figure based on
Yellowknife = 100[5]
Fort Providence hosts the annual Mackenzie Days celebrations in August each year.
History
Fort Providence was founded in the 1860s as a Catholic mission site. By 1868, the
Hudson's Bay Company, which previously has a trading post at Big Island at the source of the MacKenzie River, moved the post to the location of the mission site. From that moment, the settlement was known as Fort Providence. In 1867, the
Grey Nuns opened a boarding school and an orphanage in the settlement. Instruction languages were English and French, and most of the nuns originated from Quebec.[6]
Demographics
Federal census population history of Fort Providence
Sources: NWT Bureau of Statistics (2001 - 2017)[15]
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada, Fort Providence had a population of 618 living in 256 of its 292 total private dwellings, a change of -11.1% from its 2016 population of 695. With a land area of 255.49 km2 (98.65 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.4/km2 (6.3/sq mi) in 2021.[14]
Fort Providence has a continental
subarctic climate (
Dfc) typical of the Northwest Territories' populated areas. It is marked by a long cold winter season and short, warm summers, that in many ways are warmer than expected for an area so far north. Transition seasons are extremely short, with temperatures rising and falling quickly in respective seasons.
Climate data for Fort Providence, 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1943–present
Sources: Department of Municipal and Community Affairs,[2] Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre,[3] Canada Flight Supplement[4] ^A 2013 figure based on
Edmonton = 100[5] ^B 2015 figure based on
Yellowknife = 100[5]
Fort Providence hosts the annual Mackenzie Days celebrations in August each year.
History
Fort Providence was founded in the 1860s as a Catholic mission site. By 1868, the
Hudson's Bay Company, which previously has a trading post at Big Island at the source of the MacKenzie River, moved the post to the location of the mission site. From that moment, the settlement was known as Fort Providence. In 1867, the
Grey Nuns opened a boarding school and an orphanage in the settlement. Instruction languages were English and French, and most of the nuns originated from Quebec.[6]
Demographics
Federal census population history of Fort Providence
Sources: NWT Bureau of Statistics (2001 - 2017)[15]
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada, Fort Providence had a population of 618 living in 256 of its 292 total private dwellings, a change of -11.1% from its 2016 population of 695. With a land area of 255.49 km2 (98.65 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.4/km2 (6.3/sq mi) in 2021.[14]
Fort Providence has a continental
subarctic climate (
Dfc) typical of the Northwest Territories' populated areas. It is marked by a long cold winter season and short, warm summers, that in many ways are warmer than expected for an area so far north. Transition seasons are extremely short, with temperatures rising and falling quickly in respective seasons.
Climate data for Fort Providence, 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1943–present