[permalink] [id link]
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.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Selkirk and Concession
The Red River Colony ( or Selkirk Settlement ) was a colonization project set up by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1811 on of land granted to him by the Hudson's Bay Company under what is referred to as the Selkirk Concession.
All these events only intensified competition, and when Thomas Douglas convinced his fellow shareholders in the Hudson's Bay Company to grant him the Selkirk Concession it marked another in a series of events that would lead to the demise of the North West Company.
Nominally the district included all of the territory granted in the Selkirk Concession, however much of this was ceded to the United States in 1818 and in 1838 the district was redefined as the circular region within 50 miles of the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
Selkirk and also
* Alejandro Selkirk Island () ( also known as Isla Más Afuera ), further west.
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.
Gog and Magog are also names given to two rock formations near Friendship Col, 2000 feet above the Alpine Club of Canada's Fairy Meadows hut in the northern Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
As part owner of HBC, Selkirk also wanted to stop the North West Company ( NWC ) from competing with HBC for furs in the region.
As he also had no brothers, he also succeeded as 9th Earl of Selkirk.
* James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas ( born 1942 ), former MP and MSP, also briefly 11th Earl of Selkirk
Selkirk men fought with William Wallace at Stirling Brig and Falkirk, and also with Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, but it is Selkirk's connection with The Battle of Flodden in 1513, her response to the call of the King, the brave bearing of her representatives on the fatal field, and the tragic return of the sole survivor, provide the Royal Burgh with its proudest and most maudlin memories, it being the celebration of a five hundred year old defeat.
The town also has a footballing tradition, having produced some player of note in the Scottish game including Bobby Johnstone of Hibernian, Bob Mercer of Heart of Midlothian, Sandy McMahon of Celtic Selkirk F. C.
Between 1683 and 1686, the Lords of Napier also held the Nicolson Baronetcy, of Carnock in the County of Stirling, and since 1725 the Scott Baronetcy, of Thirlestane in the County of Selkirk, both baronetcies created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.
In 1725 he also succeeded his father as third Baronet of Thirlestane ( The Scott Baronetcy, of Thirlestane in the County of Selkirk, had been created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 22 August 1666 for Francis Scott ).
In addition to the Glasgow and Edinburgh bases of the broadcaster, BBC Scotland also has offices and studios located in Aberdeen, Dundee, Portree, Stornoway, Inverness, Selkirk, Dumfries, Kirkwall and Lerwick.
Alison Cockburn's version is played as a march by the town band but is also the version more often sung ; it is the version known in Selkirk as " The Flo ' ers o ' the Forest ".
By 1820s three more arrows were also presented by the cities of Peebles ( 1626 ), Selkirk ( 1675 ) and Edinburgh.
He was also involved in the Selkirk Restitution and Reconciliation Committee, a program which assists young offenders.
Three stars are borne upon the coat of arms of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition and also on the coat of arms of Lord Selkirk, head of the first permanent settlement in this state.
Two years later, in 1972, CJLH became a semi-satellite of CFAC-TV in Calgary, also owned by Selkirk, changed its call sign to CJOC-TV, and continued local production with shows such as
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.
Selkirk can also refer to:
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.
The survey entailed the first detailed mapping of much of southern British Columbia, including remote areas such as the Coast Mountains icefields and a range of potential pass and route combinations, including new discoveries-the most notable and crucial of which was Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains, but also less famously but no less crucially Eagle Pass through the Monashees.
He was also a member of the Lisgar Masonic Lodge No. 2 in Selkirk.
The route is also used by traffic from New York City via the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge to points west, a detour known as the Selkirk hurdle.
Selkirk and known
Although attributed to Burns, the Selkirk Grace was already known in the 17th century, as the " Galloway Grace " or the " Covenanters ' Grace ".
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.
There are no known health problems specific to the Selkirk Rex breed.
The eighteenth century county maps of Herman Moll ( dated c. 1745 ), preferred to keep the " Shire " suffix a separate word, as for example " Berwick Shire ", " Roxburgh Shire ", " the Shire of Selkirk otherwise known as Etterick Forest ", and in the north to " Murray " ( Moray ), " Inverness Shire ", " Aberdeen Shire ", " Banff Shire ", " Ross Shire ".
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.
Although attributed to Robert Burns, the Selkirk Grace was already known in the 17th century, as the " Galloway Grace " or the " Covenanters ' Grace ".
Neither the Romans, Angles, or the Saxons cleared much of the forestry there and for centuries Selkirk was known for its forest coverage.
He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
Alejandro Selkirk Island, previously known as Isla Más Afuera and renamed after Alexander Selkirk, is the second largest and most westernly island of the Juan Fernández Islands archipelago of the Valparaíso Region of Chile.
The Juan Fernández Fur Seal is known to have existed during the late-17th century on the island with the population of the seals on Alejandro Selkirk Island and Robinson Crusoe Island believed to be in excess of four million by the late 17th century.
The Illecillewaet has been of importance since the discovery in 1881 of an approach along the river to what is now known as the Rogers Pass across the Selkirk Mountains.
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.
The architectural design of the original 1925 Alexander, as it was known until about 1939, was attributed to the architectural firm of Meyer & Holler ; the front addition in 1939 was attributed to Arthur G. Lindley and Charles R. Selkirk, who also designed the Hotel Glendale.
Selkirk and Selkirk's
On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.
Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.
Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.
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.
When Maclean-Hunter took over Selkirk in 1989, Western International Communications ( WIC ) ( BCTV's parent company ) purchased Selkirk's stake to take full control of CHBC.
Among those interested in Selkirk's adventure was Daniel Defoe, who sought out Selkirk, and fictionalised the story as Robinson Crusoe.
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.
0.187 seconds.