Poetree and Friends ran on CTV locally, and it was also carried on YTV and Nickelodeon. The program won five CanPro gold awards for excellence in children’s programming. Production of ‘Poetree and Friends’ ended in 1997. Recently, the puppets from the CTV production
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and& Friends have been donated to the Yorkton Archives and are now on display at the Community pARTners Gallery, located in the Yorkton Public Library, until the end of June. The exhibition is a partnership between the Yorkton Archives, the City of Yorkton, Community Development, Parks and Recreation, the Yorkton Arts Council and the Yorkton Public Library.
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History Corner - A wintery scene of the Yorkton Railway Roundhouse 1921
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Photo: Taken in 1887 Lady Agnes Macdonald is on the right. Here are more details to last week’s story of Prime Minister J.A. Macdonald and Lady Agnes Macdonald’s trip on the Canadian Pacific Intercontinental Railway to the British Columbia coast. At one stop at Lake Louise, Lady Macdonald was studying the broad front of the locomotive with the cow-catcher and decided that it would be exciting to ride from that vantage point of the locomotive while going through the Kicking Horse Pass. The Prime Minister was not keen on the idea, but the railway superintendent thought it best she be accompanied and so he rode with her after arranging secure seating for both of them. She was fascinated by the journey, and later the Prime Minister accompanied her on the cowcatcher, although he said he preferred the comfort of the observation car. Lady Agnes Macdonald wrote of her experiences on the railway trip through the Rockies in an article entitled, “By Car and Cow Catcher” in Murray’s
Late 1888 or early 1889. J.W. Thornton’s store. The business men at the old town site, on the banks of the Little White Sand River, north of present day Yorkton realized that the village had little future with a railway being built 4 kilometers to the south. J.W. Thornton was the first to move. He built this store on Front Street North (later changed to Livingstone) and Market Street. Little is known about J.W. Thornton. His name was not on the list of the early homesteaders, so he seemed to have been interested only in the store business. He appears to have left Yorkton before year 1900, as his name is not in very early directories.