Wrigley, Northwest Territories

"clay place") is a "Designated Authority"[7] in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

The community was named for Joseph Wrigley who was the Hudson's Bay Company Chief Commissioner for British North America (1884–1891).

[18] The majority of its 2016 population (110 people) is First Nations and the predominant languages are North and South Slavey and English.

[21] The community has one store, a health centre and a two-person Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment.

The area combines mild to warm, short summers with long and very cold winters.

The S.S. Mackenzie River and three barges tied up at Fort Wrigley in 1946