Booth Fisheries
Booth Fisheries maintained a steady presence as a local employer in the Selkirk and surrounding areas. The fishery employed 200 locals in processing and established well-equipped posts along the Lake Winnipeg shoreline.
Superior Avenue
Pointing directly toward the Great Lakes, Superior Avenue was born from Selkirk’s absolute certainty that it was destined to become the “Chicago of the North.” This exhibit explores the wild 1870s land boom when speculators watched property prices skyrocket, betting everything on a Transcontinental Railway bridge that would instead cross the Red River elsewhere and change Manitoba’s history forever.
Colcleugh Avenue
Named after Selkirk’s visionary first mayor, Colcleugh Avenue tells the dramatic story of the town’s birth. From buying up “scrip” land in anticipation of a railway boom to single-handedly saving the community from becoming a ghost town after a devastating railway detour, discover how James Colcleugh secured Selkirk’s future.