Fort Fitzgerald

'', and other tugboats, pushed barges to and from the portage at Fort Fitzgerald to the railhead at Waterways, Alberta. Prior to the extension of railway service to Hay River, Northwest Territories, on Great Slave Lake, all cargo being shipped to or from the north had to be portaged from Fitzgerald to Fort Smith, to avoid four impassable rapids. The community was known as Smith's Landing until 1915 when it was renamed Fort Fitzgerald after the late Francis Joseph Fitzgerald. == Demographics ==

Fort Fitzgerald had a population of 6 people in the 2021 Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo census. The population living in Thebathi 196 in the federal 2016 census was 20, a 33.3% decrease from the 2011 census which had a population of 30. == Infrastructure ==

Most of the community's services are provided from Fort Smith, including fire, law enforcement, health care, social services, and telecommunications. Law enforcement is part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 'G division' in the Northwest Territories. An all-weather road, named Hay Camp Road, links Fort Smith and Hay Camp through Fitzgerald. == See also ==