All of the guests are seated and grace is said, usually using the Selkirk Grace, a well-known thanksgiving said before meals, using the Scots language.

The Dalton Trail is a trail that runs between Pyramid Harbor, west of Haines, Alaska in the United States, and Fort Selkirk, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, using the Chilkat Pass.

When Jessie's parachuting friend Selkirk ( Corin Nemec ) is severely injured after using a faulty parachute that Ty had intended for Jessie to use, Pete is appointed to take Selkirk's place.

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.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

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

The agile Selkirk, catching two or three goats a day, helped restore the health of Rogers ' men, who were suffering from scurvy.

* " The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk " by John Howell ( 1829 ) from Google Books

( Alejandro Selkirk ), are high enough to cause the Kármán vortex street that can be seen from space.

Alexander Selkirk is mostly covered with grassland from 0 to 400 meters, interspersed with wooded ravines ( quebradas ), home to dry forests of Myrceugenia and Zanthoxylum fagara.

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.

When Scott was a boy, he sometimes travelled with his father from Selkirk to Melrose in the Border Country where some of his novels are set.

* February 2 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

However, Robinson Crusoe is far from a copy of Woodes Rogers ' account: Selkirk was marooned at his own request, while Crusoe was shipwrecked ; the islands are different ; Selkirk lived alone for the whole time, while Crusoe found companions ; while Selkirk stayed on his island for four years, not twenty-eight.

The Selkirk Rex is distinct from all other Rex breeds.

It differs from the LaPerm in that the Selkirk Rex coat is plusher and thicker.

Its source is St. Mary's Loch and from there the Yarrow Water flows in an easterly direction with a fall of passing the settlements of Yarrow Feus, Yarrow and Yarrowford before joining the Ettrick near to the site of the 1645 Battle of Philiphaugh just west of Selkirk.

The valley is traversed by the A708 that runs from Selkirk to Moffat.

Here is an example from William Cowper's " Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk " ( 1782 ), composed in anapaestic trimeter:

The Selkirk Concession, also known as Selkirk's Grant, included the portions of Rupert's Land, or the watershed of Hudson Bay, bounded on the north by the line of 52 ° N latitude roughly from the Assiniboine River west to Lake Winnipegosis, then by the line of 52 ° 30 ′ N latitude from Lake Winnipegosis to Lake Winnipeg, and then by the Winnipeg River, Lake of the Woods and Rainy River ; on the west roughly by the current boundary between Saskatchewan and Manitoba ; and on the south by the ( mostly very slight ) rise of land marking the extent of the watershed.

Selkirk had to ban anyone from taking food out of the colony.

Selkirk then sent in a force of about 100 soldiers from the British Regiment de Meuron to enforce the peace and eventually become settlers themselves, while also capturing the Northwest outpost at Fort William.

Category: People from Selkirk, Scottish Borders

According to the ship's log, Selkirk died at 8 p. m. on 13 December 1721 while serving as a lieutenant on board the Royal ship Weymouth.

In addition to aboriginal canoes and York boats, several steamboats plied the lake, including Anson Northup, City of Selkirk, Colvile, Keenora, Premier, Princess, Winnitoba, Wolverine and most recently the diesel powered MS Lord Selkirk II passenger cruise ship.

In 1969, most of Maine's potato production rotted in the PC's Selkirk Yard, dooming the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad, whose shippers vowed never to ship by rail again.

After drinking a toast to Lady Selkirk, they returned to their ship and presented their captain with his sack full of coal and silverware.

Selkirk, a sailor with the Dampier expedition, was worried about the unseaworthy condition of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and had argued with the captain until he left him ashore on the island where they had briefly stopped for water and food supplies.

Selkirk served as a mate aboard the Duke, and was later given command of a small ship captured by the expedition.

Selkirk had been gravely concerned for the seaworthiness of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and declared his wish to be left on the island during a mid-voyage restocking stop.

Selkirk's colonizing ambitions have been memorialized in the names of the City of Selkirk and the Village of East Selkirk, as well as the Winnipeg neighborhood of Point Douglas ( where Fort Douglas once stood ) and Winnipeg's Selkirk Avenue.

* Gorge-Tillicum-A mix of lower-middle-and middle-class homes, as well as mixed industrial and commercial neighbourhoods, bounded to the northwest by Portage Inlet, to the southwest by the picturesque Gorge waterway ( a narrow channel leading from Selkirk Water to Portage Inlet ), to the east by Interurban and West Burnside Roads, to the north by the Trans-Canada Highway, and to the southeast by the border with Victoria, running along Harriet Road.

Among the lines still used are the famed Water Level Route between New York and Chicago, as well as its former Boston & Albany line between these points, the Kankakee Belt Route through Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, and the West Shore Line between Jersey City and the Albany suburb of Selkirk where the old NYC – now CSX – Selkirk Yard is among the busiest freight yards in the country.

All of the 36 Selkirk locomotives ( 5900 through 5935 ) were initially assigned to handle both freight as well as passenger trains between the major division points of Calgary and Revelstoke a distance of.

Over time, WIC would acquire various broadcasting assets from other companies, including Selkirk Communications – the other major shareholder of BCTV, and also the owner of independent stations CHCH-TV Hamilton and CFAC-TV ( now CICT-TV ) Calgary – as well as Charles Allard's company Allarcom, which had launched CITV-TV Edmonton and pay television service Superchannel.

These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

An enquiry set up by James in 1424 into the dispersal of crown estates since the reign of Robert I exposed legal defects in a number of transactions where the earldoms of Mar, March and Strathearn together with the Black Douglas lordships of Selkirk and Wigtown were found to be problematic.

Arran summoned some of the barons of East Lothian to meet her at Berwick, and the gentlemen of Selkirk, Jedburgh and Duns, Peebles and Lauder, Haddington, Dunbar and North Berwick were summoned to meet her at Our Lady Kirk of Steill on 24 November 1551.

There Somerled and his son Gillebrigte were killed in battle with the levies of the area, led by the Bishop of Glasgow, probably Herbert of Selkirk at that time.

On 6 October 1688, the new Duke of Hamilton surrendered his previous titles to the Crown, and they were reconferred on his third ( but second surviving ) son, Lord Charles Hamilton, who thereby became 2nd Earl of Selkirk, and who changed his surname to " Douglas ".

# if the titles were ever held by a Duke of Hamilton ( either because an Earl of Selkirk succeeded as Duke of Hamilton, or because provision 2 was unable to operate because the heir was a Duke of Hamilton who had no surviving younger brothers ), the titles would pass on that Duke's death to his second surviving son ;

In 1897, three separate companies were organized to build a rail link from Skagway to Fort Selkirk, Yukon, away.

Community centres were: Hagersville, Jarvis, Selkirk, Cheapside and Nanticoke.

During the series of conflicts that would become known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Selkirk played host the Royalist army of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, with his cavalry installed in the burgh, whilst the Royalist infantry were camped at the plain of Philiphaugh, below the town.

These were referred to as the Texas type in most of the United States, the Colorado type on the Burlington Route and the Selkirk type in Canada.

Fur traders and European mercenaries hired by Lord Selkirk to protect his fledgling Red River Colony were among the area's first European settlers.

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.

They were named after the Selkirk range of mountains that they crossed, the ( railway ) summit of which was located just inside the western portal of the Connaught Tunnel beneath Rogers Pass.

Montrose himself, many of his officers and some of the cavalry were quartered in the town of Selkirk, with the infantry and the rest of the cavalry encamped on flat ground the other side of the river ( the Ettrick Water ) at Philiphaugh.

However, a contemporary description of the Royalist infantry position has them behind on one hand an unpassable ditch, and on the other Dikes and Hedges, and where these were not strong enough, they further fortified them by casting up ditches, and lined their Hedges with Musketeers, hence other interpretations would put the royalists within field enclosures shown on an 18th century map between and from Selkirk.

By 1820s three more arrows were also presented by the cities of Peebles ( 1626 ), Selkirk ( 1675 ) and Edinburgh.

The community had first entered Scotland, c. 1113, under the patronage of David I as Prince of the Cumbrians during the reign of his brother, Alexander I, when the monks were given a commission to found their community at a site near Selkirk.