The Yorkton Enterprise was founded in 1896, 120 years ago this year. The 1955 photo features Editor Ken Mayhew, Premier Tommy Douglas, and Publisher Sam Wynn in front of the new Yorkton Enterprise press. That year, the newspaper celebrated Saskatchewan’s Golden Jubilee by printing a special 86 page edition. This new press was manufactured in Switzerland and could turn out a perfectly printed and folded eight-page section of a newspaper at a speed of 6,000 copies per hour. The Enterprise was sold in 1968 to Thomson Newspaper Co. of Toronto. A new newspaper Yorkton This Week was founded by Bob Thom, Dick DeRyk and Eddie Betker in 1975. The two papers, The Enterprise and Yorkton This Week competed for over 15 years until Armadale Company Ltd. bought out both papers in 1990, amalgamating them into Yorkton This Week & Enterprise.
Then in December 1995 Yorkton This Week & Enterprise, along with the other papers in the Armadale chain, was sold to Hollinger Ltd.
The Estevan Mercury purchased and renamed the paper Yorkton This Week in 2001.
In 2004, Glacier Media, an information and communication company acquired the Boundary Group of Newspapers which included Yorkton This Week. Neil Thom became publisher of Yorkton This Week. Name changes have not broken the historical link with the original newspaper, and the everlasting mission of explaining and interpreting the news to readers.
