Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1939–1940Yorkton Armoury56 1st Avenue
Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Yorkton · Canada’s heritage registers
The registers record 1 historic place in Yorkton
Yorkton Armoury, from 1939, is Yorkton’s recognized federal heritage building. Wikidata dates the municipality to July 15, 1894, which may be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger. Relative to its size Yorkton has 0.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 75% of Canadian towns. Local registers add 5 more places, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds their numbers and little else.
Historic places
1
0.6 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1939
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
26%
typical town: 18%
Through time
Looking back at Yorkton
2 old photographs of the town, in date order. A tap on any picture opens it with its credit.
c. 1903
c. 1903Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The map
Where Yorkton’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal designations
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
Other federal designations
Federal heritage in Yorkton: one more place
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
The closest heritage to Yorkton is “Canadian National Railways Station, Melville, Saskatchewan”, 39 km off
Melville, Esterhazy and Roblin hold most of them, among 5 towns. Of the 2 of the highest rank, the nearest is Esterhazy Flour Mill, 68 km away. By designation: 2 heritage railway stations, 2 National Historic Sites and a provincial or municipal listing.
The 5 nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian National Railways Station, Melville, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 39 km away, in Melville |
| Esterhazy Flour MillNational Historic Site · 1904–1908 · 68 km away, in Esterhazy |
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Roblin, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1906–1907 · 78 km away, in Roblin |
| St. John the Evangelist Anglican ChurchMunicipal heritage property · 1911 · 88 km away, in Foam Lake |
| Inglis Grain ElevatorsNational Historic Site · 1922–1942 · 90 km away, in Riding Mountain West |
Homes by age
Yorkton added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 1.7%, where most towns have 4.1%
26% of Yorkton’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 40% of Yorkton’s homes. Yorkton built little from 1981 to 2000: 18% of its homes, where most towns have 23%.
26%
Before 1961
40%
1961–80
18%
1981–2000
15%
2001–15
1.7%
2016–21
YorktonTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Yorkton has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 17,300 to 17,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Yorkton1
Only Bay-Cloverhill has more. The typical town its size has 0. 11 of them have none.
Neighbours
Yorkton and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkton | 17,543 | 1 | 0 | 1939 |
| Orkney No. 244 | 1,957 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Yorkton in brief
The 2021 Census dates 26% of Yorkton’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its past has one life on the record, Evelyn Spice Cherry (1904); and its designation dates from 1998.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
Questions about Yorkton’s history
How many historic places does Yorkton have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Yorkton.
What is the oldest building in Yorkton?
Yorkton Armoury, a Recognized Federal Heritage Building, begun in 1939.
How old are the homes in Yorkton?
Before 1961: 26% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Yorkton be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 5 more listings in Yorkton, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).