Marshall Bruce Appleton

Appleton Drive, which circles the Yorkton mobile home subdivision just off King Street, honors one of Yorkton's pioneer automobile dealers.

Marshall Bruce Appleton was born in 1877 in Musselman's Lake, Ontario. He came west to Winnipeg about 1899 where he was employed in a bake shop. Later he worked as a cook for a threshing crew at Westbourne, Manitoba, and for a lumber camp in the Riding Mountains of Manitoba.

In 1900 he purchased the bakery shop of Herb Sherman in Yorkton, but with the arrival of the automobile, Mr. Appleton entered a partnership with Frank Collacott and soon became one of the largest car dealers in eastern Saskatchewan. He continued in the automobile business until his death in 1959.

Mr. Appleton served as alderman in 1909-10 and 1933-1936.

He was a past-president of the Yorkton Board of Trade, was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Oddfellows Lodge and the United Commercial Travellers. He was a member of the Canadian and Saskatchewan Automobile Dealers Association, and helped to organize the 2000 Insurance Club.

Mr. Appleton died at the age of 81 and is buried in the Yorkton cemetery.

Robert Border

Yorkton's Justice of the Peace officer for 13 years, Robert Border died of a massive heart attack while consulting with police officers in his office in February of 1947. Mr. Border was born in Campbellville, Ontario in 1872 and attended Normal School in Ottawa.

He came to the Yorkton district in 1882 and taught school for several years at Ebenezer. Since the school was only open six months of the year, he took up a homestead in 1910. Later he opened a machine shop in Ebenezer, and in 1922 he retired to Yorkton.

In 1934 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, a position he held until his death. His daughter Mrs. George Keith still lives in Yorkton.

James McInnis

Mr. McInnis , a pioneer of the Yorkton district, came to Yorkton with his wife and children in 1890 from his home in Sarnia, Ontario.

Employed by the CPR, Mr. McInnis was one of the men who helped with the construction of the railway to Yorkton. From 1910 to 1928 he was roadmaster for the CPR stationed in Saskatoon. He returned to Yorkton in 1928 and retired in 1930.

Mr. McInnes died in May of 1947 and is buried in the Yorkton cemetery.

Edwin Pinkerton

While attending the 50th anniversary of his graduation from the University of Toronto, Dr. Steve Yaholnitsky and his wife, of Yorkton, stayed at the Days Inn in Toronto.

The hotel's Director of Sales and Marketing, Bruce Pinkerton, had occasion to serve Steve and Margaret. On learning they were from Yorkton, he mentioned that he was the grandson of Edwin Pinkerton, a former mayor of Yorkton.

He was delighted to learn more about the city, where his grandfather had been mayor for two terms.

Edwin Pinkerton was born in Portland, Leeds County, Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Pinkerton came to Yorkton in 1904 where he was employed by the Yorkton Supply Company. In 1909 he was named credit manager of the Cockshutt Plow Company. Later he accepted employment with the Yorkton Grain Growers Co-Operative, a position he held until 1922 when he became an inspector for the Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation.

He retired to the west coast in 1946 where he died in 1949.

Mr. Pinkerton served on city council for six years, serving as mayor in 1925-26 and 1933-34.