Summary for Old Fort Rae

Although we found mention of Old Fort Rae during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Over time, we expect to discover additional information that will be added to our Gazetteer..

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Typical Abbreviation: Old Ft. Rae

Time Zone: Old Fort Rae lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) The time zone in French: MST- Heure Normale des Rocheuses (HNR), MDT- Heure Avancée des Rocheuses (HAR).

Telephone Area Code: 867

GPS Coordinates (Latitude/Longitude)<2>

For the purpose of mapping and calculating distances, we have chosen the following reference point for Old Fort Rae:

Lat: 62.650300° (or 62°39'1" N)

Lon: -115.834700° (or -115°50'4" W)

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Official Website: https://www.gov.nt.ca/

Tourism: https://spectacularnwt.com/

Parks: https://www.nwtparks.ca/

Fishing: https://www.gov.nt.ca/ecc/en/services/get-fishing-licence

Hunting: https://www.gov.nt.ca/ecc/en/services/apply-hunting-licence

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Old Fort Rae and then turned west". While Old Fort Rae could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Old Fort Rae as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Old Fort Rae could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Northwest Territories community named Old Fort Rae.

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Longitude & latitude values may not be the geographic center of Old Fort Rae, rather it may be a prominent intersection or the center of population, etc. It will vary depending on the source.