The High School Students in this photo will be of interest to readers who seek information on ancestors whose parents were pioneers or early residents of Yorkton. Too many old photos don’t identify people, place or time, but this group photo has numbers to id the student. The surnames also reveal what nationalities were living in this community and immediate rural area which was included in the Yorkton School District. One can see that the population at the time was in great majority of Anglo-Saxon origins — the parents being originally from Ontario and the British Isles — founders of Yorkton beginning in 1882. 1. Neil Cowan. 2. Frank Ferguson. 3. Frank Colvin. 4. Fred Lawton. 5. Roy Hukins. 6. Frank Christie. 7. Milford Switzer. 8. Hope Gowland. 9. Beatrice Coulter. 10. Marjory Turner. 11. Lily Reid. 12. Lily Speers. 13. Sylvia Trueman. 14. Jennie Young. 15. Esther Aldryn. 16. Lucy Kirkham. 17. Edith Patrick. 18. Elizabeth Spencer. 19. Margaret Foster. 20. Blythe Pierpoint. 21. Lila Smithette. 22. Maude Burke. 23. Bessie Lukkin. 24. Meta Carey. 25. Elva Switzer. 26. Florence Gleason. 27. Alberta Badgely. 28. Lily Kilborn. 29. Freda Neuhouser. 30. Ethel McLeod. 31. Mona Clements. 32. Agnes Love. 33. Margaret Callender. 34. Maude Neuhouser. 35. Roona Anderson. 36. Miss Norsworthy (Mrs. Cram). 37. Clara Ferguson. 38. Joe Hendreckson. 39. Winnie Moynes. 40. Lawrence Homer. 41. Wilfred Tripp. 42. Hilbert Eby. 43. Magnus Breidfjord. 44. Dan Young. 45. Vern Ferguson. 46. Percy Pearce. 47. Mr. W.S. Cram, Principal. 48. Frank Clark, 49. Will Magrath. 50. Ernest Clark. 51. Charley McFarline. 52. Albert Tonlinson. 53. Loy Matheson. 54. Proctor Foster.
Source of photo and information — the Howard Jackson Collection.
Contact Terri Lefebvre Prince,
Heritage Researcher,
City of Yorkton Archives,
Box 400, 37 Third Avenue North
Yorkton, Sask. S3N 2W3
306-786-1722 heritage@yorkton.ca
