Welcome to Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Yorkton summary
Yorkton is a city in the south-east of Saskatchewan, Canada, near the Manitoba border. Attractions include the Yorkton Western Development Museum, the Yorkton
Short Film and Video Festival, held annually since 1947, the Painted Hand Casino, the Yorkton Bulldogs lacrosse team, the Yorkton Harvest Midget AAA hockey team
and the Yorkton Terriers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. Yorkton has hosted various sporting events, including the Western Canadian Bantam Hockey
Championships, The World Junior 'A' Hockey Challenge which gained national exposure on TSN, among many others.
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The story of Yorkton goes back to 1882, when a group of settlers from York County, Ontario, established a settlement. They had been recruited by the York Farmers
Colonization Company, and originally founded York Colony about two miles north of the present-day city, on the banks of a small river.
The York Farmers Colonization Company, with Ontario Member of Parliament N. Clark Wallace as president, and a capital shareholders’ investment of $300,000 was
incorporated May 12, 1882. 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.
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
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Yorkton is the site of the Yorkton Western Development Museum, 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.
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