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The start of sport in Yorkton
These are the 11 men who formed the Yorkton Football Team – it was “football” to the early European settlers of the area, now commonly called soccer in North America. The photo is inscribed “Yorkton Football Team, May 29th, 1897”. Little is known about them, but it was likely the first sports team in Yorkton. Holding the ball is Albert Oldroyd, who lived at Good Spirit Lake.
Photo: Darryl Deighton, Oldroyd Family Archive.
Page from the annual report of the Manitoba branch of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club of Scotland detailing the founding of the Yorkton Curling Club, likely in the fall of 1897.