page_title: Herschel Island
section_title: The Arctic's first trial
hierarchical_section_title: Herschel Island / The Arctic's first trial
caption_attribution_description: English: Francis J Fitzgerald North West Mounted Police 1905
context_page_description: Herschel Island is an island in the Beaufort Sea, which lies 5 km off the coast of Yukon in Canada, of which it is administratively a part. It is Yukon's only offshore island.
context_section_description: The first court case held in the Canadian Arctic took place at Pauline Cove in 1924 in a building known as the Bonehouse, which was built in the mid-1890s as a storehouse for baleen. Court officials traveled from Edmonton for the trial of two Inuvialuit men charged with murder. Jury members were chosen in Fort McPherson, Arctic Red River (now Tsiigehtchic) and Herschel Island. The men were found guilty, and were hanged from a tie beam in the Bonehouse. The tie beam was removed by the RCMP when they left the island in 1963.
caption: Francis Joseph Fitzgerald, first RCMP officer assigned to Herschel Island (1903)
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