* The Selkirk Steelers, a Canadian junior ice hockey club which plays in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.

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.

Selkirk is the site of the first Border Abbey, however the community of Tironensian monks moved to Kelso during the reign of King David I.

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.

The party won only one seat outside Winnipeg, however, in the urban community of Selkirk.

In the fifth, however, the Yankees chased the youngster from the game when they took a 2 – 1 lead on RBI base hits by George Selkirk and Ruffing.

On 31 December 2008 it was announced that Fraser Lothian, Ally McCulloch, Garry Fraser and Stuart Robertson would head up the new Management team for the Fairydean for the remainder of the campaign, however by the end of the 2008 / 09 season Gala had sunk to a mid table finish at which point, with some players reported to be unsettled, two of them left for local rivals Selkirk, who play in the East of Scotland Premier Division.

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.

In 1989, Maclean Hunter bought Selkirk Communications Ltd., and CFAC-TV-7 was purchased by Western International Communications, and joined the Westcom TV Group.

He subsequently joined radio stations in Selkirk, Kenora and Brandon before returning to Winnipeg's CHIQ.

Subsequently he joined Charles II and was made a Baronet, of Carrington in the County of Selkirk, dated 1 August 1651, at Woodhouse, during the march to Worcester.

Residents in the hamlets of Selkirk and South Bethlehem are part of the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District.

* The usual East-Central-West separators are the Purcell Mountains splitting East from Central and the Selkirk Mountains splitting Central from West.

The riding includes the neighbourhoods of Jefferson North, Mandalay West, Maple Glen, Garden City, Jefferson, St. John's, Inkster Faraday, William Whyte, Dufferin, North End, Burrows Central, Robertson, Selkirk, Mynarski, Northwood, Shaughnessy Heights, Lord, Tyndall Park, Garden Grove, Oak Point, Inkster Gardens, Luxton, the south part of The Maples and the north part of Logan CPR in the City of Winnipeg.

A new shopping centre called Kinross Central on the corner of Connolly Drive and Selkirk Drive has been opened in recent years.

The line runs from the North Bergen Yard in Hudson County, New Jersey north to Selkirk, New York along the alignment of the West Shore Railroad, a former New York Central Railroad line.

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.

* Bumsted, J. M. Lord Selkirk: A Life ( University of Manitoba Press, 2008 ), 517pp, scholarly biography

* Marine Museum of Manitoba in Selkirk

In 1874, Steele was initiated as a Freemason in the Lisgar Lodge No. 2, in Selkirk, Manitoba.

In some accounts of the history of Manitoba, the term Old Assiniboia is used to describe the pre-1870 settlement, though the terms Red River Colony, Red River Settlement and Selkirk Settlement are more common.

Category: Selkirk, Manitoba

Patterson was born on December 27, 1964 in Kapuskasing, Ontario but grew up in Selkirk, Manitoba.

Category: People from Selkirk, Manitoba

Praznik was born in Selkirk, Manitoba, and attended the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.

After losing the Conservative nomination in the Manitoba riding of Marquette, he decided to contest nearby Selkirk instead.

In November 2003, Smith designated Selkirk as the first city in Manitoba to have exceeded its emergency preparedness requirements.

Dewar was born in Selkirk, Manitoba, the grandson of former Mayor Ben Massey.

Dewar served as treasurer of the Selkirk local of the Manitoba Metis Federation, and was a founding director of the Maurepas Village Housing Cooperative.

Dewar was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1990, running as a New Democrat in the riding of Selkirk.

Category: People from Selkirk, Manitoba

Helwer was born in Selkirk, Manitoba.

She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1990, representing the riding of Selkirk for the Manitoba Liberal Party.

* Selkirk Lift Bridge over the Red River in Selkirk, Manitoba

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

Former Premier of Manitoba Howard Pawley represented Selkirk from 1969 to 1988.

Category: Selkirk, Manitoba

Selkirk RFC play in their home games at Philiphaugh, and are now in Premiership Division Two and the Border League ( the oldest established rugby union league in the world ).

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

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.

In 2008 – 09 they reached the Third Round of the Cup, defeating Lossiemouth FC 5 − 1 at home, and then Selkirk FC 6 − 0 at home, before losing to Highland League side Forres Mechanics 2 − 4 after extra time, following a very creditable 2 – 2 draw at Mosset Park, Forres

Selkirk won promotion to the Premier League in season 2005 – 06 after some spirited performances, including a 6 – 1 humbling of local rivals Gala Fairydean.

Towards the culmination of the fixture list, Selkirk had recorded unexpected home and away victories over the reigning league champions, Whitehill Welfare, to avoid the dreaded trapdoor and ensure that Premier League football will be witnessed at Yarrow Park for another year.

Fourteen team members have been inducted into the International League Hall of Fame: John Berly, Bruno Betzel, Ike Boone, Jack Dunn, Luke Hamlin, Dan Howley, Rocky Nelson, Steve O ' Neill, Eddie Onslow, Dick Porter, Dick Rudolph, George Selkirk, George Stallings, and Dixie Walker.