The population of Fort Nelson was 4,514 at the 2006 census.

The forests in Fort Nelson are part of Canada's boreal forest.

For other places with a similar name, see Fort Nelson.

Construction was protracted and Fort Nelson wasn't fully armed until the 1890s.

Fort Nelson was abandoned in the 1950s.

The machine will be returned to the museum in the spring of 2013 for a public demonstration of mechanical artillery at Fort Nelson.

Fort Nelson is on the southwest edge of the Greater Sierra oil & gas field.

The 60's also had Fort Nelson's education system formally offer grades 1-12 education.

Fort Nelson is surrounded by vast plains and mountains of boreal forest.

Fort Nelson was originally incorporated as a village in 1971, but established itself as an unregistered community shortly before that.