A 1912 map shows the names of the little communities established along the line, going north from Melville: Brewer, Peoples, Otthon, Enfin and Yorkton. (There is no mention of McKim on this map.) The first train on the line carried Sir Wilfrid Laurier for his special visit to Yorkton arriving on July 19, 1910. The Grand Trunk Pacific railway was important to Yorkton, furthering its place as the distribution center for the region, as the rail line wended its way northward, with more land being homesteaded and more villages being established. By the late 1920s, it would link up with the Hudson Bay Railway in Manitoba going to the Port of Churchill.
Source of photo: Howard Jackson Collection
This edition of History Corner originally ran in the Nov. 4. 2009 of Yorkton This Week.
