Selkirk

Selkirk may refer to:

Places

• Selkirk, Scottish Borders, a royal burgh in southern Scotland, incorporated before 1300, and from which many of the following people and places are named
• Fort Selkirk, Yukon, a historic Hudson's Bay Company trading post and First Nation settlement on the Yukon River
• International Selkirk Loop, a route in Idaho, Washington, and British Columbia skirting the Selkirk Mountains
• Lord Selkirk Park, a neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Canada
• Selkirk, Manitoba, a city in Manitoba, Canada
• Selkirk, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Wichita County, Kansas
• Selkirk, New York, an unincorporated hamlet in the town of Bethlehem located in Albany County, New York
• Selkirk Mountains, a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada and the Idaho panhandle, USA
• Selkirk Settlers Bridge, in Winnipeg, Canada
• Selkirk Shores State Park, on the shore of Lake Ontario, located in the town of Richland, Oswego County, New York
• Alejandro Selkirk Island, the largest and most westerly island in the Juan Fernández Archipelago of the Valparaíso Region of Chile, situated 180 km (100 nmi; 110 mi) west of Robinson Crusoe Island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.

People

• Selkirk (surname), surname origin, and list of people with the surname
• Earl of Selkirk, a title in the Peerage of Scotland
• James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, Scottish politician and Life Peer, briefly 11th Earl of Selkirk
• Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada

Animals

• Selkirk (horse), (1988–2013), a North American-bred, thoroughbred racehorse that raced mainly in Europe
• Selkirk Rex, a breed of cat with curly hair

Education

• Selkirk College, a community college in British Columbia
• Selkirk Secondary School, a High School in Kimberley, British Columbia

Sports

• Selkirk F.C., a football club
• Selkirk RFC, a rugby club
• Winnipeg Selkirks, a former ice hockey team from Winnipeg, Canada, see List of ice hockey teams in Manitoba

Transportation

• Selkirk hurdle, a description of the route that freight trains must take from New York City to points west of the Hudson River
• Selkirk locomotive, a type of steam locomotive built by Montreal Locomotive Works

Other uses

• Selkirk Communications a defunct Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, which operated from 1959 to 1989.
• Selkirk Grace commonly recited before a Burns supper, attributed to Robert Burns
• Selkirk transmitting station, the transmitter that provides FM, digital radio and television coverage to Selkirk.