page_title: Selkirk, Manitoba
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Selkirk, Manitoba / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Manitoba Avenue in Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada. Picture taken February, 2012.
context_page_description: Selkirk is a city in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, located on the Red River about 22 kilometres northeast of the provincial capital Winnipeg. It has a population of 10,278 as of the 2016 census.
  The mainstays of the local economy are tourism, a steel mill, and a major psychiatric hospital. A vertical lift bridge over the Red River connects Selkirk with the smaller town of East Selkirk. The city is connected to Winnipeg via Highway 9 and is served by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
  The city was named in honour of Scotsman Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, who obtained the grant to establish a colony in the Red River area in 1813.
context_section_description: Selkirk is located in the Interlake Region of Manitoba, about 22 km northeast of the provincial capital Winnipeg on the Red River. A vertical lift bridge over the Red River connects Selkirk with the smaller town of East Selkirk. The city mostly borders the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews, except to the east, where it borders the Rural Municipality of St. Clements across the Red River. The terrain is extremely flat with fields of wheat and canola surrounding the city.
caption: Downtown Selkirk.
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