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Selkirker Hist.

• 1 n. a settler at Selkirk (def. 1).

  See also: Selkirk (def. 1)  Selkirk settler  

  • 1862  The Selkirkers are getting stirred up, and we look for a large emigration towards the mountains.
  • 1952  Several hundred more Selkirkers, most of them Swiss, followed in the next five years, after stops of varying periods in Pembina.

• 2 n. a man of the Hudson's Bay Company, identified with Lord Selkirk, 1771-1820, who, with his brother, had bought control of that company about 1810, before embarking on his plan to found the Red River Settlement.

  See also: Red River Settlement  

  • 1961  [Caption] Fort William . . . became headquarters of the North West Company in 1801, replacing the post at Grand Portage . . . the fort was perched at the edge of the western fur country that was to be so bitterly contested by the Nor'Westers and the determined Lord Selkirk's Husdon's Bay men, called Selkirkers.