Selkirk (disambiguation)
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Selkirk is a royal burgh in the Scottish Borders.
Selkirk can also refer to:
- Places
- Selkirk, Manitoba, a city in Manitoba, Canada
- Fort Selkirk, Yukon, a historic Hudson's Bay Company trading post and First Nation settlement on the Yukon River
- Selkirk, New York, an unincorporated hamlet in the town of Bethlehem located in Albany County, New York
- Selkirk Shores State Park, on the shore of Lake Ontario, located in the town of Richland, Oswego County, New York
- Selkirk Mountains, a mountain range in western Canada
- Selkirk Settlers Bridge, in Winnipeg, Canada
- Lord Selkirk Park, a neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Canada
- People
- Earl of Selkirk, a title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada
- Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island; he is supposed to be inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
- Selkirk settlers, who were brought by Douglas to the Red River Colony (Selkirk Settlement) in Canada
- Education
- Selkirk Secondary School, a High School in Kimberley, British Columbia
- Other
- Selkirk Football Club
- Selkirk Grace, attributed to Robert Burns
- Selkirk locomotive, a type of steam locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works
- Selkirk Rugby Club
- Selkirk Rex, a breed of cat with curly hair
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