Selkirk Water

Selkirk Water (48˚26'19" 123˚22'52" Part of Victoria Hbr, between Bay St bridge and Gorge Waters, Victoria). Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (1771–1820), was a Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant colonies in Canada. He was extremely wealthy, which was fortunate, as he needed to become a controlling shareholder of the HBC before he could establish his most famous agricultural experiment, the Red River Colony, in 1812. The settlement was never particularly successful and...

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