Lower Post is an aboriginal community in the Stikine Region[1] of northern British Columbia, Canada, located on Highway 97, the Alaska Highway, approximately 15 miles (24 kilometres) southeast of Watson Lake, Yukon.
Lower Post, or Fort Liard (its original name), had been established by an American, Rufus Sylvester, in 1872.
Before Lower Post became a community, it served as a fishing spot, a crossing and a meeting place.
Because many different indigenous people stopped here for trading, the community still has a diverse ethnic make-up today.
In the early 1940s, it served as a stopover for scheduled airline passenger service between Whitehorse and Edmonton via Fort Nelson.