Bailey, Michelle
Mortgage Specialist
Phone: 306-621-5032
Office: 64 Broadway Street East, Yorkton, Saskatchewan S3N 2X3
E-Mail: Michelle.Bailey@cornerstone.cu.sk.ca
Member Since: Sept. 13th, 2010
Deb Schmidt
Realtor
Phone: 306-783-9404
Office: 45C Palliser Way, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada, S3N 4C5
Member Since: Nov. 11th, 2010
Mortgage Specialist
Phone: 306-621-5032
Office: 64 Broadway Street East, Yorkton, Saskatchewan S3N 2X3
E-Mail: Michelle.Bailey@cornerstone.cu.sk.ca
Member Since: Sept. 13th, 2010
Deb Schmidt
Realtor
Phone: 306-783-9404
Office: 45C Palliser Way, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada, S3N 4C5
Member Since: Nov. 11th, 2010
Quick Facts about Yorkton
- In the winter of 1882-1883, four settlers named Wm. Meredith, Cosmo McFarline, Wm. Hopkins and Edward Hopkins stayed in a shack subsisting on minimal supplies and assistance from the First Nations people.
- Summer 1883 – a colonist named David Livingstone returned from a trip to Manitoba with a cat and four kittens. He sold them for $1.50 each. These cats saved the colony from being overrun by mice and losing precious food.
- January 1, 1884, the post office opened its doors under the new city name of Yorkton Summer 1889 – a Northwest Mounted Police outpost was established in Yorkton under the Saltcoats detachment.
- 1897 – a scarlet fever and typhoid fever epidemic
- 1897 - Hudson Bay Company opened a store in Yorkton
- July 1899 – A well-known horseman named ScottyMcDonald rode his horse into the Balmoral Hotel and ordered a drink after participating in a parade
- 1900 – Yorkton was officially incorporated as a town with a population of 600 and by 1901, grew to 1,486
- 1904 – a windmill was built on Front Street in Yorkton to pump water from a hand dug well
- 1908 - THE YORKTON TIMES in their November 5th issue announced it first weekly "Ladies Column" which would include church activities, social and philanthropic news.
- 1910 – Yorkton started receiving long distance phone service
- 1921 – population grew to 5151
- 1929 – The Roxy Theatre officially opened
- January 8, 1930 – temperatures dipped below 50 degrees F
- 1930 – first water tower built
- 958 – CKOS TV was launched
- 1960 – last run made by horse-drawn milk delivery
- 1961 – population grew to 9,995
- 1971 – population grew to 13,430
- 1973 – 50 rinks entered the Annual Ladies Curling Bonspiel
- 1974 - Brother Methodius Koziak, teacher at St. Joseph's College received the ORDER OF CANADA.
- 1977 – Eaton's store Manager, John Wytrykush, became Mayor.
- February 12, 1985 – The Balmoral Hotel was destroyed by fire.
- 1986 – hosted the Saskatchewan Winter Games with 2500 participating athletes
- 1991 – population steady at 15,320
- 1992 – Labatt's Men's Curling Playoffs held in Yorkton
- 1992 – First drive-through ATM installed in Yorkton by Yorkton Credit Union Ltd.
- 1994 – Special Summer Olympics held in Yorkton
- August 1990 – first water tower constructed in 1930 was demolished
- 2000 – Yorkton hosted the 2000 Saskatchewan Summer Games
- Bronfman Family The family whom once controlled Seagram's Distillery and Universal Studios arrived in Saskatchewan around 1900. While living in Yorkton in 1919, Harry Bronfman started a liquor re-exporting firm called the Canada Pure Drug Company. The family later moved to Montreal.
- Pamela Wallin – broadcast journalist with CBC born in Wadena, 140 km northwest of Yorkton
- Brian Dickson - (1916 -1998) Born in Yorkton and served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada for six years ending in 1990.
- Largest city in east central Saskatchewan (14,000 sq miles)
- Home to the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival (April)
- Home to Winterfest (Aboriginal Games) – February
- Home to Harvest Meats, a state-of-the-art meat processing plant that sells to Western Canada, United States and Japan
- 76,307 were living in Yorkton in 2003 representing 7.6 per cent of Saskatchewan's population
