Our Home Town Heroes

Nominations for the Class of 2023 of the Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame are now open. 

It is not the responsibility of the YSHF to nominate candidates for induction. Nominations must come from members of the community who are fully familiar with the nominee and are able to complete the nomination form and provide all relevant information.

Nominations must be received on or before April 15, 2023 for the next induction ceremony expected to be held in the fall of 2023. Nomination forms are available by clicking the button below, at Yorkton Recreation and Community Services at the Gallagher Centre, and from any YSHF board member.

The video of the 2022 induction evening is now available on our website.

The video was recorded and produced by AccessNow TV, the community programming department of Access Communications.

We thank AccessNow TV for allowing us to show this on our website.

View the video by licking the link below. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes in length.

Back in 1938 or 1939, Marguerite Smith wrote a poem about the Yorkton Terrier team that played that winter season in the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League.

The poem was preserved all these years by Joyce Anaka of Yorkton, a school friend of Marguerite, and herself a young hockey fan, who provided it to us.

The poem, and other stories and memorabilia from past years in local sports now have a home on this website, on a new page called Memory Lane.

If you have written stories and/or photos of bygone days in Yorkton sports, please get in touch.

Yorkton's sports history goes back nearly a century, and inductees into the Sports Hall of Fame go back to the 1940s and 1950. 

To introduce some of our Home Town Heroes to the younger generation, we have produced two worksheets that explore the accomplishments of eight of our inductees. The project was sponsored through a grant from Sask Lotteries.

If you know or have children interested in sports, and they know how to do basic research on this website, they will be able to complete the worksheets. Printed copies are available to schools, youth organizations and parents by contacting us, and PDF files of the worksheets can be viewed, downloaded or printed by clicking the button below which will take you to the page where we store our documents.