YORKTON

city, southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It lies 117 miles (189 km) northeast of Regina. The original townsite, on nearby Yorkton Creek, was settled in 1882 by the York (Ontario) Farmers' Colonization Company. With the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1890, the community moved to its present site. A wholesale and marketing centre for an extensive farming and turkey-breeding area, Yorkton has stockyards, tanneries, poultry markets, brickyards, and farm-machinery and concrete-making plants. The biennial Yorkton International Film Festival (open to amateur films) has been held regularly since 1950. A Royal Canadian Air Force radar station is 12 miles (19 km) northwest. Inc. village, 1894; town, 1900; city, 1928. Pop. (1991) 15,315.