Though it has undergone several reorganizations, the firm of Logan Stevens Construction still maintains the name of the founder, James Logan, in its corporate name.

As the firm prepares for its centennial in 2004, it has always been and continues to be committed to building on quality and service.

In 1903, two Scottish men, James Logan and William Black, met on a ship carrying them from their native Scotland to Canada. Their paths crossed again later in Yorkton.

Both men were carpenters and were employed by J. M. Christie on the construction of the new city hall. On impulse Mr. Logan inscribed his name and date, "James Logan, November 27, 1905" on a piece of board used in the construction. When the building was demolished this board was given to Mr. Logan and it is now in the archives of the company.

When Mr. Christie went out of the construction business and concentrated on the funeral business, Mr. Logan and Mr. Black established the construction firm of Logan and Black.

The site of the new firm was on Broadway, now occupied by McDonald's Restaurant. The building was the headquarters for the construction firm and later the Yorkton Planing Mill and Logan and Black lumber yard.

With the expansion of Yorkton, many residential and commercial buildings were constructed by Logan and Black Construction.

One of the notable contracts was with the Redemptorists Fathers to construct St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church in 1914 and St. Joseph's College in 1920.

The church, on Catherine Street, is known for its impressive dome. The church was an architectural and construction marvel for the turn of the 20th century. The project was the first Ukrainian Catholic Church in western Canada using brick construction--bricks fabricated from white clay found near the site.

Mr. Logan, a millwork craftsman , established a millwork shop in 1920.The shop was known as Yorkton Planing Mill and later Mastercraft Millwork.

By the 1920s the firm Logan and Black was well known and firmly established in western Canada.

In the 1930s James Logan's son, Donald, a University of Manitoba architectural graduate, joined the firm. The firm was officially incorporated and expanded. The original shop site took in the better part of a block on West Broadway and a lumber yard was added to complement the construction and millwork businesses.

Donald Logan returned to the company after serving in the Royal Canadian Engineers during the war. In the years following World War II, Logan and Black built homes for the returning servicemen, known as war time homes. In the construction of these homes, Logan and Black utilized state-of-the-art two-storey walls that were fabricated in the company's yard and hauled to the construction site by horses.

Mr. Logan retired in 1950 with his son Donald taking over the operation of the company. Mr. Logan died several years later.

Further expansion of the company occurred in the 1950s with the addition of a ready-mix concrete operation, known as Trans-Crete. The operation was merged with a brick manufacturing plant to form Yorkton Concrete.

Yorkton Concrete, located on York Road East, continues operation to this day, supplying concrete and brick products to the Yorkton area. Mr. Logan's grandson, Jim Logan, is a principle of Yorkton Concrete.

In 1960 Keith Stevens joined the firm and in 1961 became a partner with Don Logan. The renamed firm of Logan Stevens moved to the present site on York Road East.

The lumber yard and builders' supply business continued until 1971 when that part of the business was phased out. The millwork part of the business joined the construction department on York Road.

The death of Mr. Stevens in 1967 lead to a reorganization of the firm. In 1968 William Mark was appointed general manager of Logan Stevens and in 1969 he became a partner.

Mr. Mark had been an estimator and project manager for another Yorkton contractor. He also had several years of experience as chief estimator and construction manager for a firm involved in industrial construction of mine sites.

In 1981, Donald Logan, after more than 40 years of active involvement in the company founded by his father, retired from the day to day operation of the firm.

The company was then reorganized under the ownership of William and Angie Mark. In 1981 Randy Holfeld, a former city engineer of Yorkton and a former city engineer and later city manager of Lethbridge, joined the business. Randy and Dianne Holfeld became shareholders of the company in 1982.

The business continued to succeed as Logan Stevens Construction Ltd. earning a solid reputation as construction builders and managers on projects in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia.

Again the firm underwent change when Randy Holfeld retired in September, 2000, and the company was sold to 10 of the staff in December 1999. With over 200 years of experience in construction management, finance, equipment rental and sales, these new directors are well positioned to carry on the legacy built by the company founders.

The new management consists of Doug Kitsch as General Manager and Construction Manager, Shaun Gardner as Rentals Manager and Ellen Gardner as Controller.

William Mark will continue with Logan Stevens Construction as consultant and project manager until December, 2002.