Yorkton is a city located in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, near the Manitoba border. Founded and incorporated in 1882 by a group of settlers from Ontario, it has grown to 15,038 residents as of the 2006 census. The Yorkton Film Festival has been held there every year since 1947. 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 about north of the site of the modern city, on the banks of the small Whitesand river. York City remained here until 1893. Yorkton has expanded, and the original settlement...more »