Ruth writes

Ruth Shaw wrote about Yorkton's past people and events for this web site and local papers until several years ago. Her previous columns are available in this archive. Ruth was a teacher, wife and mother, the one-person news and distribution bureau for the Regina Leader-Post in Yorkton, the manager of the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce, and now retired.

Alexa Gorenko
Appleton, Border and McInnes
Austin Ingham
Balmoral Hotel
Bands
Baptist Church
Bits and Pieces I
Bits and Pieces II
Bits and Pieces III
Bits and Pieces IV
Bits and Pieces V (from 1949)
Bits and Pieces VI
Bits and Pieces VII
Boarding House
Chamber of Commerce
Charles Dunning
Charles Peaker
Christmas concerts
Christmas news 2000 part 1
Christmas news 2000 part 2
Christmas news 2001
City Dairy
C. J. Houston
CJGX Radio
Cliff Shaw
Cougars in the snow
Country schools
David MacIntyre
de Balinhards
Drake, Bailey and Henderson
Drive-in theatre
Earle Park
Early dentists
Early settlers
Eclipse of 45
Education part 1
Education part 2
Ernie Crosthwaite
Farm and Leisure Show
Farmers markets
First bank in Yorkton
Frank Brunner
Frank Bull
Fred Langstaff
Gardening
General Alexander Ross part 1
General Alexander Ross part 2
General Alexander Ross part 3
General Alexander Ross part 4
Gilbert McMinn
Glenn Farrell
Grant McLean
GX Radio
Harvesting then
Hats
Hopkins and Dunlop
Howard Jackson
Italian campaign vets
Jack Fisher
John Anderson
Judges from Yorkton
Junget, Ingham and Barbour
Ken Mayhew
Kinsmen
Leon Malinowski
Levi Beck
Logan Black/Logan Stevens
Logan and Lock
MacKenzie and Simpson
Michael Merriman
Mayor Clarence Langrill
Mayor's chair
Mid-1950s
Morris snow blower
Norm McKeeman
Norm Roebuck
Old City Hall
Park and Roebuck
Park family
Perogie...the world's largest
Perry Ehrlich
Peter Yaholnitsky
Pioneers
Postwar decade
Power and telephones
Pysanka
Regina summer fair
School horse
Schoolhouse dance
Sigga Houston
Spring on the farm
Stephanie Potoski
Stornoway
Summer of 2001: personal notes
Swallow, C. Beck and Irving
Teaching in the 30s
Telephones
Thomas Garry
Three centuries
Wash day on the farm
Western Development Museum
Where are they now?
William Morrison
Winter sports
Winter then and now
Yorkton's earliest years
Yorkton's oldest business
Yorkton Florists
YRHS magazine sales

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