Yorkton Stories 🇨🇦

When the riders ride on Saturday, it will be the 49th Yorkton Snowarama, a fundraiser that started in 1977. We talk to those involved then, and now.

A podcast about a Yorkton kid who played some pretty good high school football here. And for the past 46 years has been an actor and director in Calgary live theatre, and the founder of several theatre companies. Meet Duval Lang at www.yorktonstories.ca and all podcast directories.

A new podcast about a local woman of influence whose objectives were simply to raise her children and support her community. Hear it at www.yorktonstories.ca and find us on all podcast directories.

Our latest podcast, and the last one for this, our third year of telling stories about Yorkton people and events.

We will be back in January. In the meantime, all the best for the holiday season -- may you be well, whatever you are celebrating as winter officially sets in. We wish you a happy 2026.

Another Yorkton story.
On all podcast directories, and the podcast + pictures, documents and links at www.yorktonstories.ca.

In August a group of organizations in Yorkton dealing with food security received a donation of 15 tons of potatoes from Second Harvest. All gone in two weeks. This is about that, and the recently formed food security committee who took on the challenge.
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In August a group of organizations in Yorkton dealing with food security received a donation of 15 tons of potatoes from Second Harvest. All gone in two weeks. This is about that, and the recently formed food security committee who took on the challenge.
@secondharvest.bsky.social

Photos of the Yorkton Psychiatric Centre then (1964) and now.

The architect designed the new facility based on his experience with LSD to get into the mindset of patients. That, along with the provincial government's move to decentralize psychiatric patient care so they are closer to home, made the new facility in Yorkton SK cutting edge in North America.

Kris Grunert, born and raised on a farm a few miles out of Yorkton, is an award-winning photographer. We talk about his commercial work for many large international corporations, as well as his personal photographic art. How he got into photography is a story in itself.

The story of Dr. Sigga Christianson Houston and her family. She was only the fourth woman of Icelandic descent to be a doctor back in 1926.

A new podcast from YorktonStories.ca... hockey legend Metro Prystai, born and raised in Yorkton SK Canada, talks about life before, during and after hockey. He played for the Chicago Blackhawks and @detroitredwingsnhl.bsky.social, winning two Stanley Cups and was a 3x allstar.

Back then, Yorkton was dominant in #volleyball in #Saskatchewan 🇨🇦. Boys high school teams won 9 consecutive provincial championships and a Yorkton girl went on to play for Canada in the 1996 Olympics. That's only part of the story. It's at www.yorktonstories.ca or find us in all podcast directories.

Forensic pathology is not something a lot of high school graduates would even think of as a career option. But Alexa did.

Don't know where the background noise comes from. It is not part of the video when I post it elsewhere online or play it in a player app. If you have any suggestions, would appreciate hearing from you. But listen closely and you can hear her message through the noise.

In #Yorkton #SK #Canada, immigrants from around the world are finding a new home and often a different kind of life. Winter weather has something to do with that, but is not a great deterrent, it seems. We talked to seven recent immigrants about their journeys.

We talk with Shawn Sanford Beck, born and raised here in #Yorkton #SK #Canada. He was a member of the local St Andrew United Church in his youth, then became an Anglican priest. He has taken on a new role in the United Church. But he is not your conventional clergyman.
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Our new podcast is about Hamton, a village north of Yorkton, SK Canada. After it was largely abandoned 40 years ago, the buildings stood, until on a Sunday morning in May of 2018, they all burned down. At www.yorktonstories.ca and all podcast directories. Search for Yorkton Stories.

This account is about my local history #podcast, #Yorkton Stories. Personal observations and comments, and relevant (to me) repost, can be found at @dderyk.bsky.social. Would love you to join me there.
#Saskatchewan #Canada.

Great sweater. A little short on Dief, but very 1950s/60s. And good for you for using that name for it; the other name was derogatory even then, but very commonly used.

You're alive and smiling. How could anyone object?

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A bit more about the podcast:
This is not about opinion, it is about facts, or as close as we can get when we're talking about people and events a century ago. This is an attempt to create oral history for posterity.
If you have a connection to #Yorkton #Saskatchewan, please get in touch.

#canadasky
This is a Canadian account for those interested in oral history and current stories about Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

We talk with Ivan, who is teaching sustainability and learn-by-doing in Lesotho, a poor country in southern Africa. The school he started, Bethel Business and Community Development Centre, has provided education and practical skills training for more than 30 years.