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Yorkton
York City
Flag of Yorkton
Flag
Location of Yorkton, Saskatchewan
Location of Yorkton, Saskatchewan
CountryCanada
ProvinceSaskatchewan
Incorporated VillageJuly 15, 1894
Incorporated Town1900
Incorporated CityFebruary 1, 1928
Government
 • MayorChris Wyatt,
 • MLAGreg Ottenbreit
 • MPGarry Breitkruz
Area
 • Total24.57 km2 (9.49 sq mi)
Elevation
[1]
498.30 m (1,634.84 ft)
Population
 (2006)[2]
 • Total15,038
 • Density612.2/km2 (1,586/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−6 (Central Standard Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−5
HighwaysThe Yellowhead Trans Canada Highway
Hwy 52, Hwy 10, , Hwy 9, the Saskota Flyway
Post office establishedJanuary 1, 1884
WebsiteCity of Yorkton
[3][4][5][6][7]
File:YorktonSK.jpg
On the Yellowhead near Yorkton

Yorkton is a city located in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, near the Manitoba border. Founded and incorporated in 1882 by a group of settlers from Ontario, it has grown to 15,038 residents as of the 2006 census.[2]

The Yorkton Film Festival has been held there every year since 1947.

History

A group of settlers from York County, Ontario, established athe York City settlement in 1882.[8] They had been recruited by the York Farmers Colonization Company, and originally founded York Colony about Template:Mi to km north of the site of the modern city, on the banks of the small Whitesand river.[9] York City remained here until 1893. Yorkton has expanded, and the original settlement was approximately located where Yorkton airport is now located.[10]

The York Farmers Colonization Company, with Ontario Member of Parliament N. Clark Wallace as president, and a capital shareholders’ investment of CA$300,000 was incorporated May 12, 1882.[11] ($300,000 then is equivalent to $9.47 million in present day terms.[12][13][14]) Earlier in the year, a group of Toronto businessmen had met to discuss a plan to invest in the opening of lands for homesteading in Western Canada, specifically in the newly created Provisional Assiniboia, North West Territories.[15]

Geography

The Aspen Parkland ecoregion describes the types of flora and fauna found naturally here.[11] Yorkton is located in the Cypress Hills Forested area of Saskatchewan where there are White Spruce (Picea glauca) and Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta), however the terrain is mainly one of agriculture and there is no forestry industry.[16] It is also in an area of black calcareous chernozemic soils.[11][16] The Yorkton area was located on the edge of an area of a maximum glacial lake.[16] The quaternary geology has left the area as a moraine plain consisting of glacial deposits.[11] The bedrock geology is the pembina member of Vermillion River Formation and Riding Mountain Formation. Yorkton is located in the physiographic region of the Quill Lake-Yorkton Plain region of the Saskatchewan Plains Region.[16]

Climate

Yorkton has a humid continental climate, with extreme seasonal temperatures. It has warm summers and cold winters, with the average daily temperatures ranging from −17.9 °C (−0.2 °F) in January to 17.8 °C (64.0 °F) in July. Annually, temperatures exceed 30 °C (86 °F) on an average in late July Typically, summer lasts from late June until late August, and the humidity is seldom uncomfortably high. Winter lasts from November to March, and varies greatly in length and severity. Spring and autumn are both short and highly variable.

Climate data for Yorkton
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Source: Environment Canada[17]

Demographics

Historically the first settlers to the area at the Yorkton colony were English from Eastern Ontario and Great Britain. Template:Mi to km west were Scottish settlers at the settlement of Orkney.[18]

Historical Population
YearPop.±%
1901 700—    
1906 1,363+94.7%
1910 2,309+69.4%
19163,144+36.2%
1996 15,154+382.0%
200115,107−0.3%
200615,038−0.5%
[2][19][20]

Template:Canada CP 2006

Government

The city of Yorkton has a mayor as the highest ranking government official. The town also elects aldermen or councillors to form the municipal council. Currently the mayor is Chris Wyatt, and is serving with councillors Dick DeRyk, Larry Pearen, James Wilson, Bob Maloney, Les Arenelien, and Randy Goulden.[21]

Provincially Yorkton is within the constituency of Yorkton served by their Member of legislative assembly, the honourable Mr. Greg Ottenbreit.[5]

Yorkton is represented in the Canadian House of Commons by Garry Breitkreuz of the Conservative Party of Canada. From 1968 to 1993, it was represented by Lorne Nystrom of the New Democratic Party.

Infrastrucure

Yorkton established their first hospital in 1902, and this was followed by a maternity care home which lasted a couple of decades.[11]

Transportation

Yorkton is strategically located on a network of highways; The Yellowhead Trans Canada Highway Hwy 52, Hwy 10, and Hwy 9, the Saskota Flyway.[10]

Yorkton was located on the Minnedosa, Manitoba, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Alberta section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The track travelled from northwest to southeast through Insinger, Theodore, Springside, Orcadia, to Yorkton, and continued through Rokeby, Clonmel, Saltcoats and Bredenbury. It is at Bredenbury, that travellers experienced a time change, and set their watches one hour earlier going west along the line in the early twentieth century.

Yorkton was also located on the Melfort, Tisdale, Canora Kamsack Canadian National Railways line. The track traveled from south west to north east through Melville, to Yorkton and continuing to Mehana, Ebenezer, Gorlitz, Burgis and Canora.

There was another CNR branch line through Yorkton, which travelled between Regina, Melville, The Pas, Manitoba, Swan River, and Kelvington, Saskatchewan. The line traveled from south to north through Melville, Brewer, McKim, Otthon, Enfin to Yorkton, and continued on through Young's Siding, Mehan, Ebenezer, Gorlitz, Burgis, and Canora.

The Neepawa, Manitoba, Yorkton, Willowbrook, and Parkerview CNR also ran through Yorkton. From south to north the railway stations along the line near Yorkton were Parkerview, Fitzmaurice, Jedburgh, Beaverdale, Willowbrook, Fonehill, to Yorkton, leaving to arrive at Calley, Strudee, Tonkin, Barbour, Barvas, Kessock, Wroxton, Stornoway, Rhein, Hampton, Donwell, Ross Junction, Canora.

The Yorkton Municipal Airport (IATA: YQV, ICAO: CYQV), is located 2.8 NM (5.2 km; 3.2 mi) north of Yorkton.[22][23] During the Second World War, an airport was built north of the city for the RCAF's No. 11 Service Flying Training School, now operated as the Yorkton Municipal Airport.

Education

Tertiary institutions

High schools

Sacred Heart High School (Yorkton) was founded by the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, and the school celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 1991.[24] Dream Builders is an alternative education program offering grades 6 through 12 with a work experience component.[25] Yorkton Regional High School (also known as the YRHS or The Regional) opened November 10, 1967 offering grades 9 to 12.[26]

Elementary schools

There are four separate elementary schools. St. Alphonsus Elementary School provides Kindergarten through Grade 8 [27] St. Mary's Elementary School offers pre-kindergarten classes to grade 8.[28] St. Michael's Elementary School offers both English and French immersion from Kindergarten to grade 8.[29] St. Paul's Elementary School also belongs to the Christ the Teacher Catholic School Division, and provides Kinergarten to Grade 8 classes.[30]

The public elementary schools are also four in total. Columbia Elementary School has an approximate enrolment of 340 students and offers pre-Kindergarten to Grade 8.[31] Dr. Brass Elementary School is named after the dentist, Dr. David James Brass and offers pre-Kindergarten to Grade 8.[32] M.C. Knoll Elementary School opened in August 1998, and is named after Milton Clifford Knoll. .[33] Yorkdale Central School is also a part of Good Spirit School Division No. 204, [34]

Sports teams

The Yorkton Terriers are a team in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. The team plays their home games in the Farrell Agencies Arena which has a seating capacity of 2,300.[35] Yorkton Harvest are a Midget AAA ice hockey team and they are a member of the SMAAAHL. They play their home games at the Farrell Agencies Arena.[36]

Yorkton Cardinals are a baseball team playing in the Western Major Baseball League.[37]

The Yorkton Bulldogs are a box lacrosse team formed in 2003. They are a member of the Prairie Gold Lacrosse League.[38]

The Yorkton Regional Raiders are the Yorkton public High School sports teams.[39] The Sacred Heart Saints is the name for the sports teams of the Separate Sacred Heart High School.[40]

Military

The 64th (Yorkton) Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery is garrisoned at the Yorkton Armouries.

During World War II the Yorkton airport was home to No. 23 Elementary Flying Training School and No. 11 Service Flying Training School - both schools being a part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Among the present users is a Gliding Centre, operated for the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.

Museums and points of interest

The Yorkton Gallagher centre is an entertainment complex constructed in 1977 by the civic government and the Yorkton Exhibition Association. Up until 2005, the facility was called the Parkland Agriplex and hosted an arena, curling rink, conference rooms and an indoor swimming pool. The Agriplex was built on the fair grounds until they moved in the early twentieth century.[41] Yorkton Tower Theatre is a single screen movie theatre built in the 1950s.[42]

Yorkton is home to a branch of the Saskatchewan Western Development Museum[1], which houses a number of exhibits depicting pioneer life in the town and on the surrounding prairie. The museum includes an early pioneer log home and an extensive outdoor exhibit of agricultural machinery, including early tractors and steam engines.[18]

Notable Yorktonites

The Right Honourable Brian Dickson, born May 25, 1916 in Yorkton, was appointed Chief Justice of Canada on April 18, 1984.[43] The library of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law is named for him, and contains many of his papers and personal effects.[44]

Honourable Madam Justice Constance Hunt was born 1951 in Yorkton, attended the University of Saskatchewan and received her Master of Law degree from Harvard University.[45] In 2006, it was reported that she was one of three "short list" candidates to be recommended to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada replacing the retired justice, John C. Major.[46]

E.F. Anthony "Tony" Merchant, Q.C. ,born October 19, 1944 in Yorkton is a former politician and Saskatchewan lawyer whose law firm had major involvement in the residential school lawsuits.[47]

David Rodney born June 27, 1964 is a Yorkton native, and a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He holds the distinction of being the only Canadian to ascend to the summit of Mount Everest twice. He has received many accolades for his philanthropic work and personal accomplishments including the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for community service, a spot on Alberta Venture magazine's list of Alberta's 50 Most Influential People, and the dedication of Rodney Ridge in his hometown, where he holds a spot on the sports hall of fame.[48]

Brent Fedyk, born March 3, 1967 in Yorkton was drafted in the first round, 8th overall, by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft.[49]

Jarret Stoll born June 24, 1982, in Melville and the family moved to Yorkton at a young age. In 1997, Stoll helped the Yorkton Bantam AAA Terriers to a Western Canadian Championship.[50] On June 29, 2008, Stoll was traded to the Los Angeles Kings, and on September 5, the Kings signed Stoll to a four year deal worth $14.4 million.[51]

Alvin Law born 1960 in Yorkton is a motivational speaker and former radio broadcaster. Law was born without arms as a consequence of his mother's use of the prescription thalidomide while pregnant.[52]

Nick Stoubis was born April 2, 1972 in Melville. The family moved to Yorkton when he was nine years old, where he became musically inclined. He toured Canada playing on bills with Nazareth, Bachman-Turner-Overdrive (B.T.O.), Trooper, Prism, Barney Bental, and Lee Aaron. He is a professor musician at the University of Southern California as a part of their Music Faculty.[53]

See also

List of communities in Saskatchewan

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  53. ^ "Nick Stoubis Biography". egis Infinity Inc. 2004. Retrieved 2009-05-10. Mathew Alie born Aug 6, 1987, in Regina Sk, is Yorkton's number one No-limit poker player, who has won 13 different tournments in Yorkton and its surrounding area, including the legionars tournement in Grandview Manitoba 3 times in a row which has cause him to be banned. If you wanna learn this is the guy to teach you.

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