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Selkirk is a city in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, located on the Red River about 22 kilometres (14 mi) northeast of Winnipeg, the provincial capital. It has a population of 10,504 as of the 2021 census.
The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assiniboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, on 300,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) of land in British North America.
People from Selkirk, Manitoba, by occupation (1 C) Pages in category "People from Selkirk, Manitoba" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Lord Selkirk signed a treaty with Chief Peguis that eventually became St. Peter’s Reserve in 1817, but Chief Peguis’s people would eventually lose the land and forced to move to the current Peguis First Nation by 1930s [4] when Selkirk’s colony became the province of Manitoba in 1870, the area then became St. Peter’s Settlement and eventually merge into Selkirk, Manitoba.
Thomas Sinclair (April 9, 1841 – March 8, 1888) was a farmer and political figure in Manitoba. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia. [1] He was born in the Red River Settlement, Rupert's Land, the son of Thomas Sinclair and Hannah Cummings. Sinclair married Alice Matilda Davis. [1] He died in Selkirk at the age of 46. [2]
The City of Selkirk is served by the Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive Secondary School, which is administered by the Lord Selkirk School Division. The Lord Selkirk Highway runs from the international boundary between Manitoba and North Dakota, where it connects with Interstate 29 in the United States, to the city of Winnipeg.