Yorkton (Sask.)

Yorkton's first town council after incorporation in 1900

YJ0265
Item
ca. 1900

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

Yorkton's first town council after incorporation in 1900.

Yorkton's first motor fire truck

Yj0361
Item
ca. 1914

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

Yorkton's first motor fire truck

Yorkton's first high school buildings and 1910 school under construction

YJ0397
Item
1908-1910

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

Yorkton's first high school buildings. Two rooms were built in 1908 and in 1909 one additional room was added. These buildings were erected on the site of the present High School Buildings, on Darlington Street, and were in use until the new building was completed in 1911.

1910 High School under construction.

Yorkton's First Grist Mill

YJ0015
Item
1947

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

Old timers and others standing on the mill foundation in 1947

Yorkton's first business street

YJ0082
Item
ca. 1897

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

Livingstone St., on the right, Yorkton's first business street with the Royal Hotel in the foreground. At the left on the picture is Broadway east of first Ave. The first house is Markham's residence, next is J. C. Markham's livery barn. Next the Hudson's Bay store. Across the street 2nd. Ave., is R. A. Patricks small drug store, Yorkton's first drug store with a law office above. Next is the Carson Building with a photography shop and barber shop on the ground floor and offices above.

Yorkton Town and city engineers.

YJ0304
Item
1882-1967

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

List of the Yorkton Town and City engineers.

Yorkton Regatta day

YJ0330
Item
1882-1967

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

Canoes and boats on a lake during Regatta Day in Yorkton.

Yorkton Presbytery fonds

FD 22
Fonds
1912–1925

The fonds consists of textual materials generated by Yorkton-Abernethy and Yorkton (later Parkland) Presbyteries, their secretaries, committees and related bodies, in fulfillment of their responsibilities, as outlined in the Manual of the United Church of Canada.

Contents include meeting minutes, correspondence, secretarial notebooks, property files, and documents relating to the Congregational Life and Work Committee.

United Church of Canada Yorkton Presbytery

Yorkton Pastoral Charges fonds

FL 773
Fonds
1889–2012

The fonds consists of textual materials generated by Yorkton St. Andrew’s Pastoral Charge and Yorkton Rural Pastoral Charge, as well as their predecessors, associated and constituent churches – their boards, committees and related bodies, local women’s units and youth groups.

Contents include: minutes of church boards, councils, sessions, stewards, congregational, trustee meetings; meetings of local Ladies Aid Societies, Women’s Association (W.A.) and United Church Women (U.C.W.) groups; records from Sunday School; correspondence and property files; financial records and annual reports; church histories and member directories; historic rolls and communion rolls; and registers of baptisms, marriages and burials held at Yorkton, Orkney, Beaverdale, Springside, Orcadia, Hubbard, Theodore, Rokeby, Calder, Willowbrook, Saltcoats, Tonkin, and related locations.

Yorkton St. Andrew's Pastoral Charge