History
A group of settlers from York County, Ontario, established the York City settlement in 1882. They had been recruited by the York Farmers Colonization Company and originally founded York Colony on the banks of the small Whitesand river about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the site of the modern city. York City remained here until 1893. Yorkton has expanded, and the original settlement was approximately located where Yorkton airport is now located.
The York Farmers Colonization Company, with Ontario Member of Parliament N. Clark Wallace as president, and a capital shareholders' investment of CA$300,000 was incorporated May 12, 1882. ($300,000 then is equivalent to $7.23 million in present day terms.) Earlier in the year, a group of Toronto businessmen had met to discuss a plan to invest in the opening of lands for homesteading in Western Canada, specifically in the newly created Provisional Assiniboia, North West Territories.
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