Christen Junget served with the RCMP in Yorkton and area from 1899 to 1913.

His first western posting was to subdivision headquarters in Saltcoats. Two years later when the subdivision was moved to Yorkton, Col. Junget moved to Yorkton and was promoted to Corporal in charge of the subdivision. and detachment.

He was then appointed to Staff Sergeant, and in 1907 rose to the rank of Inspector.

The Yorkton subdivision was expanded with additional detachments under his supervision. And whilehe was here, the guard room in the Court House had six new cells added, and became the common jail for prisoners sentenced to up to six months hard labor.

He continued as Inspector of the Yorkton subdivision until being posted to the Crow's Nest Pass in 1913.

While in Yorkton he married Chloe Burkell, daughter of a pioneer family of Yorkton. On his retirement he lived in Victoria until is death.

Austin Ingham

Yorkton Flying Services has been an integral part of the Yorkton flying community since 1946.

It came into being as a co-operative effort between the aviation section of the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce and Austin Ingham, a veteran flying instructor.

Austin was born in Blairmore, Alberta. After finishing public school in Alberta he took his high school in Lanigan. He then went on to the University of Saskatchewan and in 1937 graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree.

From 1937 to 1940 he worked for the federal government on dominion/provincial youth training programs, lecturing in agriculture mechanics.

Meantime he took up his love, flying. As a boy he saw a WWI Jennings barnstorming on farmers' fields and he knew that was what he wanted to do. Later in Lanigan he started to build a glider with his brother. The Chanute type depended on the balance provided by pilot maneuvers.

During his years in university he took flying lessons and obtained his pilot's license, pilot instructor license, air engineer license and his "B" engineering license.

During the war years he served as a pilot instructor at air observer schools in Prince Albert, Regina and Portage La Prairie until the schools closed in 1946.

He came to Yorkton in 1946 and established Yorkton Flying Services. Pilot training, crop spraying, and charter flights were all part of the everyday life at the company.

Mr. Ingham was very much involved in the community, serving as president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1960. He was a member of the Yorkton Lions Club and other organizations.

Mr. Ingham died at Yorkton.

Robert Barbour

Barbour Avenue is named in honor of Robert Barbour, mayor of Yorkton from 1930 to 1932 and again 1935 to 1938.

Mr. Barbour was born in Androsson, Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1882.

After leaving school, he clerked in the office of Alex Mather and Son of Edinburgh. Here he heard stories of western Canada and he decided to emigrate to this new land.

Arriving in Winnipeg in the spring of 1914, he became employed in the office of Crescent Creamery, and later was sent to manage the Yorkton branch, a position he held until his death in 1952.

He was alderman for three years before he became mayor of the city in 1930. After serving as mayor until 1932, he retired only to became mayor again in 1935.

Mr. Barbour was active in community affairs, serving as president of the Yorkton and District Board of Trade (now Chamber of Commerce). He was a five-year member of the Yorkton Collegiate Board, a past senior counsellor of the UCT, past president of the Yorkton Horticultural Society and steward of the United Church for many years.

He was chairman of the Saskatchewan Dairy Association for 18 years and was on the board of the National Dairy Council.

Mr. Barbour died in September of 1952.