Stories from our past
The Society has a raft of material going back many years and it is our aim to publish as much as possible on this web site. If you have documents, photos, etc that you would like to be included in our web pages, please send them to, or contact the Society Secretary, using the contact link included in the web. For ease the page has been split into two sections and you just need to scroll down to the section you are looking for. Some docs will require you to reposition them or increase the font - just right click or use the tools at the top of the PDF document.
The sections are headed - 1. Society information 2. Newsletters and Bussin' programmes
Section 1 - Society information
Section 2 - newsletters and bussin' programmes
Common Ridings Past
The Society has taken part in every Selkirk Common Riding since 1911 and we are keen to publish as much material as possible covering over 100 years of history. In this section of our web site we are publishing Common Riding pictures from 1911 onwards, except for the current year.
If you have photographs involving the Colonial Society, particularily for the missing years, please get in touch with the Secretary via the ‘’contact’’ page of this web site. We would be delighted to publish them.
Reproduction of some of the images has been problematic because many images were ''glued'' into the old minute books. Using the PDF facilities however you should be able to move the position of the image and/or increase the font size.
1911 John Johnstone and no 2 (Note - T B Williamson was appointed CSB but he was detained by business in New York)
1914 Tom Currie and no 2
War Years
1920 James Nichol - no images found but report of Bussin located in the archive section of the web
1921 William Downie - no images found but report of Bussin located in the archive section of the web
1926 George Muir - no images found but report of Bussin located in archive section of the web
1927 George Robertson image 1................image 2
1928 James Hogg image 1--------------image 2.......................image 3 (Colonial visitors with Chairman Ballantyne)
War Years
1963 Jack Thomson number 2 number 3
1964 George Thomson and George no 2 and no 3 and no 4
1966 Lewis Brydon and number 2 and no 3
1976 Donald Waldie number 2 number 3
1987 David Williamson and also number 2 plus number 3
1992 Trevor Walters and a second photo and number 3
1993 Will Anderson no 2 no 3 no4
1995 Duncan Stewart no 1 no 2 no3
1996 Bill Rathie and a second image and no3
1997 Marcus Waldie number 2 and number 3
1998 Billy Coracy number 2 and also number 3
2001 Mark Screen and a second and no 3
2004 Alan Emond NZ plus another as number 2
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