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He was born Thomas Douglas at St. Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, on June 20, 1771. He was the seventh son of Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, and his wife Helen Hamilton. His brother was Basil William Douglas, Lord Daer.
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He was born Thomas Douglas at St. Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, on June 20, 1771. He was the seventh son of Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, and his wife Helen Hamilton. His brother was Basil William Douglas, Lord Daer.
He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and in 1799, on the death of his father, succeeded to the title.
Selkirk advocated emigration to relieve the distress of many Highland crofters. These small farmers had been dispossessed by the enclosure movement which was turning parts of the British Isles into vast sheep pastures. Selkirk's first offer to form a settlement in what is now western Canada was rejected by the British government, but in 1803 he settled 800 immigrants on land he had purchased on the east shore of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1804 Selkirk purchased a tract of land on Lake St. Clair in Upper Canada (Ontario) and brought in settlers from Prince Edward Island and the United States. He then undertook, by purchasing a controlling interest in the Hudson's Bay Company, to bring settlers into Rupert's Land, the area granted the company by Charles II in 1670. He purchased 116, 000 sq mi of the company's land in the Red River territory. This area, known as Assiniboine, embraced what is now southern Manitoba and portions of northern Minnesota and North Dakota. To it Selkirk brought about 250 settlers, most of them from Scotland. They came in four contingents, the first in 1812 and the last in 1815. They were transported by sea to a point on Hudson Bay, from where they journeyed by lake and river--one party did it in winter on the ice--to the fork of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, where the colony was established. The first years brought hardship and disappointment. In 1813 the first wheat crop failed, and in 1815 and 1816 the colonists were exposed to attacks by the "Nor'westers, " fur traders of the North West Company, who regarded them as wards of the hated Hudson's Bay Company. The Nor'westers made several attempts to destroy the Red River settlement, fearing that it would obstruct their lines of communication between their headquarters at Montreal and the fur fields to the north and west. They also feared that the settlement was part of the scheme to enable the Hudson's Bay Company to monopolize the fur trade. In June 1815, in an incident known as the Pemmican War, the Nor'westers captured and burned the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Douglas, near the Selkirk settlement. This action was precipitated by a proclamation issued by the governor of the colony, Miles McDonnell, which forbade the export, without a license, of goods raised or procured there. This struck directly at the Nor'westers' supply of pemmican, a food whose chief ingredient was dried buffalo meat, upon which they depended to tide them over the long winter months in the interior. Having razed Fort Douglas, they destroyed most of the homes in the settlement and dispersed the settlers, taking McDonnell to Fort William as a prisoner. However, another contingent of immigrants arrived in September 1815, with a new governor, Robert Semple. During the spring of 1816, Semple demolished the North West Company's Fort Gibralter and used the stockades to rebuild and strengthen Fort Douglas. Meanwhile the Nor'westers had roused the native American and half-breed hunters and these, together with some company men under Cuthbert Grant, descended on Fort Douglas in June 1816. Their plan was to cut off the settlers from the fort and then, joining forces with other Nor'westers from Fort William, to attack and capture Fort Douglas. In the ensuing Battle of Seven Oaks, only one of Grant's men fell, but twenty-one of the settlers including Governor Semple, were killed. Fort Douglas was recaptured by the North West Company and the remaining settlers were again dispersed. Even this calamity did not bring an end to the Selkirk settlement. Some of its people returned, newcomers arrived, and the life of the colony was resumed. Selkirk became involved in long and costly litigation with the North West Company, arising from its attempts to destroy his settlement, and especially from the Battle of Seven Oaks. This litigation, which continued from 1816 to his death in 1820, sapped his strength and resources, and as a result he was unable to bring in more settlers. He died on April 8, 1820, at Pau, France, where he had gone in an effort to regain his health.
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He was a member of the North British Society.
Lord Selkirk married Jean Wedderburn-Colville, sister to Andrew Colville, in 1807.