Saskatchewan
York Colony moves to the rails
Yorkton started in 1882 when the York Farmers Colonization Company bought townships near the Little Whitesand River and planted York Colony as a trade centre for settlers near the Manitoba border. The first townsite hugged the creek; the railway later pulled the community to the present site.
Incorporation as a city came in 1928. Today Yorkton is southeastern Saskatchewan's service centre, roughly 450 km northwest of Winnipeg, with a Western Development Museum branch that still talks transportation and prairie settlement.
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Livability
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Yorkton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Yorkton is a city located in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada.
It is about 300 kilometres (190 mi) southeast of Saskatoon and 450 kilometres (280 mi) northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba and is the sixth-largest city in the province.
Yorkton was founded in 1882 and incorporated as a city in 1928.
The Yorkton Film Festival is among the longest-running film festivals in North America.
Yorkton's WDM branch highlights early prairie transportation and settlement stories in eastern Saskatchewan.
