Peaker Avenue in Yorkton can be approached from Laurier Avenue and extends in an arc to King Street. Both entrances are graced by stone pillars indicating the street name.

The man after whom this avenue was named served on Yorkton council for 28 years and was mayor for nine consecutive terms, retiring from civic politics in 1947.

Mr. Peaker was born in 1869 in the village of Kirburton, Yorkshire, England. In March 1888, when he was 19 years old, he along with his parents, two brothers and a sister came directly to Langenburg, then the end of the steel of the Manitoba North Western Railway.

In the spring of Mr. Peaker and his brother took up land eight miles southeast of the present location of Yorkton. At that time the main settlement was three miles north of the present city.

In 1907 Mr, Peaker and his brother decided to handle their own crops and built their first elevator at Rokeby. Mr. Peaker took out a membership in the Winnipeg Grain Exchange.

With the building of more elevators, the Peaker brothers opened offices in Winnipeg and later the company amalgamated to become Peaker Gibson Elevators. The company was later sold to the Bawlf Grain Company.

In 1938 Mr. Peaker bought a mill at Yorkton, which later became known as the Yorkton Milling Company (the elevator still stands on the CPR track at the corner of Beck and Livingstone.)

Mr. and Mrs. Peaker retired to the west coast in 1948 where he lived until his death in 1952.

Mr. Peaker was first elected to city council in 1920 and was appointed chairman of the finance committee, a position he held for 12 years. It was under his careful planning that the financial position of Yorkton changed from a state of near bankruptcy to among the soundest in western Canada.

For many years he served on the executive of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association.

He was one of the original shareholders in the local co-operative creamery. He helped form the local branch of the grain growers' movement and was a member of the executive.

The farmer, rancher, part owner of several grain elevators, owner a milling company, and member of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, whose efforts helped shape the history of Yorkton, was laid to rest in the Yorkton cemetery at the age of 83.