The Selkirk Steelers, however joined the Central Manitoba Junior Hockey League ( CMJHL ).

The very next year, the MJHL swallowed the CMJHL, creating a North Division to house all four teams, the Selkirk Steelers, Portage Terriers, Dauphin Kings, and Kenora Muskies ( who operated out of Fort Garry the previous year ).

In 1974, the Selkirk Steelers won the national crown, giving the MJHL back to back " Canadian Championships ".

The Selkirk Steelers dominated, between 1974 and 1987, winning eight MJHL championships, including three in a row.

There are several Canadian National Parks in the Pacific Northwest, including Pacific Rim National Park on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Mount Revelstoke National Park and Glacier National Park in the Selkirk Range alongside Rogers Pass, Kootenay National Park and Yoho National Park on the British Columbia flank of the Rockies, Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve in the Strait of Georgia.

With the Canadian economy in recession and interest rates high, the station's owners sold the station to media conglomerate Selkirk Communications.

Originally owned by a consortium led by the Canadian Selkirk Communications with a 46 % stake, LBC was sold in 1987, beginning a turbulent commercial history.

The Selkirk locomotives were 36 steam locomotives of the 2-10-4 wheel arrangement built for Canadian Pacific Railway by Montreal Locomotive Works, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

British Columbia's Rocky Mountains, Cariboo Mountains, Rocky Mountain Trench ( east of Prince George ) and the Columbia Mountains of Southeastern British Columbia ( west of the Canadian Rocky Mountains that extend into parts of Idaho and Northwestern Montana in the USA ), which include the Selkirk Mountains, Monashee Mountains, and the Purcell Mountains, have the largest stretch of interior temperate coniferous rain forests.

Rogers Pass ( elevation ) is a high mountain pass through the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia used by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Trans-Canada Highway.

Connaught Tunnel, in the Selkirk Mountains under Rogers Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia, at long was, at the time it was built, the longest railway tunnel in North America.

* April 2 – Construction begins on the Connaught Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains under Rogers Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia.

Selkirk is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Nevertheless, James Jerome Hill of the Canadian Pacific Railway hired Rogers in April 1881 to find a rail route through the Selkirk and Rocky Mountains.

The Mount Macdonald Tunnel, located in the vicinity of Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, is a railway tunnel constructed through Mount Macdonald by the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ).

He made the 12th successful ascent of Mount Sir Sandford in the Canadian North Selkirk Mountains with Ron Zimmerman and Brian Berry, brother of Jan Berry of the United States musical group, Jan and Dean.

Several companies filed proposals, and early in 1981, the CRTC licensed the proposal by Canadian Satellite Communications Inc, a consortium of Canadian broadcasting companies including Allarcom of Edmonton, WIC Western International Communications of Vancouver, Maclean Hunter of Toronto, Selkirk Broadcasting of Toronto, Telemedia of Montreal, Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien, a Quebec broadcast executive, and Rolf Hougen, a businessman whose interests included CKRW Radio and WHTV Cablevision of Whitehorse.

Selkirk — Interlake is a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1976 to 1987, and since 1997.

Although much of the survey's activity focused on locating suitable mountain passes through the Canadian Rockies, Selkirk Mountains, Monashee Mountains, Canadian Cascades and Coast Mountains of western Canada, locating the best route across the rugged terrain of the Canadian Shield north of Lake Superior was also a primary goal.

* Robert Selkirk Bothwell from Canadian Encyclopedia

Selkirk was a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1871 to 1979.

Selkirk — Red River ( formerly known as Selkirk ) was a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997.

Following his career, Oliver returned to Selkirk, working first as an electrician, then moved to Winnipeg where he worked for the Weights and Measures Department of the Canadian Government.

Oliver grew up in Selkirk, Manitoba and played both junior and senior hockey with the Selkirk Fishermen.

After graduating from the Selkirk Fishermen Juniors, Simpson played senior ice hockey with the Winnipeg Victorias of the NHA in 1914 – 15.

He was in time to play in the last four games of the ice hockey season for his home town, Selkirk Fisherman Seniors of the Manitoba Seniors League.

Selkirk Cricket Club have won the Border League on 23 occasions and the club has produced a dozen Scottish internationalists.

The Kennel Club formed in 1873 and, at the Fleece Hotel at Selkirk, Scottish Borders on November 17, 1875, the Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club ( DDTC ) was formed, becoming the third oldest breed club for dogs in the world.

* Selkirk F. C., a football club

* Selkirk RFC, a rugby club

Selkirk Football Club are a Scottish football club based in the town of Selkirk.

Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.

Accordingly, though the practice violated the no-trading provision of the Selkirk charter which reserved all such activity in merchandise and furs to the Hudson's Bay Company, some settlers went into trade.

An unruly youth, Selkirk joined several buccaneering expeditions to the South Seas, including one commanded by William Dampier, which called in for provisions at the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.

Hearing strange sounds from inland, which he feared were dangerous beasts, Selkirk remained at first along the shoreline.

The islands are mainly known for having been the home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk for four years, which may have inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe.

The islands have an area of, of which are taken up by Robinson Crusoe ( together with Santa Clara ), and by Alexander Selkirk.

Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

Furthermore, much of the appeal of Defoe's novel is the detailed and captivating account of Crusoe's thoughts, occupations and activities which goes far beyond that of Rogers ' basic descriptions of Selkirk, which account for only a few pages.

One copy printed by Neil Selkirk after Arbus's death sold for $ 553, 600 in 2005, which was an auction record for Arbus.

In 1989, Selkirk was acquired by Maclean-Hunter, which was committed to returning the station to an alternative format.

It was meant to guarantee adequate supplies for the Hudson's Bay Colony, but it was viewed by the North West Company as a ploy by employees of the Earl of Selkirk ( majority shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company ) to monopolize the foodstuff, the export of which was important to the North West Company.

Mungo Park was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland at Foulshiels on the Yarrow Water, near Selkirk, on a tenant farm which his father rented from the Duke of Buccleuch.

In the aftermath, Selkirk was ordered to appear in court in Montreal and was charged with four separate offences, all of which related to the alleged unlawful occupation of Fort William.

The City of Selkirk is served by the Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive Secondary School, which is administered by the Lord Selkirk School Division.

Blaikie was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1979 federal election, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative MP Dean Whiteway ( who had previously been elected in the riding of Selkirk, which was eliminated by redistribution ).

Additionally, he oversaw the construction and / or modernization of many hump or classification yards: most notably, the $ 20-million Selkirk Yard which opened outside of Albany in 1966.

In June 1973, David Steel ( MP for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles ), unsuccessfully introduced an amendment that the title of " Provost " shall attach to the chairman of any community council which is based on any existing burgh .. to .. carry forward a title which appears, for example, in the Royal Charters of those burghs ".

** The earldom of Selkirk, which is presently disclaimed by a baron for life, Lord Selkirk of Douglas

Sir Walter Scott was appointed Sheriff-Deputy of the County of Selkirk in 1799, and was based in the Royal Burgh's Courthouse, which can be found in the town square.

The district which covered the Sheriffdoms of Peebles and Selkirk later became of the County of Peebles in the north and County of Selkirk or the " Ettrick Forest " in the south, two of the counties of Scotland.