People

Benjamin Massey was born in 1896. At 22 years old he enlisted in the Canadian Army during World War I. He was a solider in

Coming to Selkirk The Purvis Family is responsible for one of the oldest Selkirk based businesses. It all began when William Robert Purvis and his

Richard Henry Gilhuly is best known by the community as the owner of Gilhuly’s Drug Store. He was born in Carleton Place, Ontario in 1857,

William “Bill” Earl Gordon was born July 27th, 1890 in Drayton, Ontario. His father, William Henry Gordon was an analytical man and a lawyer, which

Harold W. Newton immigrated to Selkirk from Lincolnshire where he took up work as the Farm Superintendent at the Manitoba Asylum (now Selkirk Mental Health Centre). He

William Gibbs is best known for being one of two bakers in Selkirk during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Gibbs name is remembered