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Victoria school and the West End school

Victoria school and the West End school

Victoria school and the West End school.
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Victoria school, built on the present site of Shaw Park on 5th. Avenue in 1899. Mr. J. A. Gregory was the principal and Mr. J. A. M. Patrick was his assistant. This building became outdated and was replaced by the New Victoria school on 4th. Avenue in 1929.

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The West End school, built on the present site of the Western Grocers building on Broadway West in 1905. It was moved, in 1910, to the corner of Broadway and Melrose Ave., to make way for the right-of-way of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. It was used for school purposes until the Simpson school was opened in 1915. The building is still in a good state of repair and has been used as a multiple for a long number of years.

Wagon carrying binder twine

Wagon carrying binder twine

Before the advent of the combine, binder twine was a necessity for harvesting. Here Ben Kimber and Gus Gibson are seen unloading a truck load of binder twine at the implement warehouse of W. D. Dunlop on 2nd. Ave.

Yorkton [history]

Church history file -- including newspaper clippings, "St. Andrew's United Church, Yorkton, Saskatchewan" (bound directory, ca.1975).

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

Yorkton Presbytery fonds

  • FD 22
  • Fonds
  • 1912–1996

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's first business street

Yorkton's first business street

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.

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