Culture Days at the Mill
The Yorkton Flour Mill is excited to join other local organizations for Culture Days Yorkton 2021 from Sep. 24 to Oct. 24. For details about all events and programs in Yorkton visit the Culture Days website.
Story board tours
Wheat straw weaving
Wheat straw weaving
Saturday, Sep. 25 starting at 2, 3 and 4 pm
A narrated walking tour of the story board signs at the Yorkton Flour Mill telling the history of the mill and of Yorkton. The tour lasts approximately 30 minutes will view six themes: First Nations, York Colony, The Railway, The Mill, Agriculture, and The Story of Wheat. Each board depicts photos and narrative from the past century.
Wheat straw weaving
Wheat straw weaving
Wheat straw weaving
Saturday, Sep. 25 from 2 to 3.30 pm
Wheat straw weaving is a tradition that goes back to a time where the grain was cut by hand. It was believed that the Spirit of the Harvest lived within the grain so each harvest, the people make little figurines of straw and preserve them until next spring.
Bread in a bag
Wheat straw weaving
Groovy grain games
Saturday, Sep. 25 from 2 to 5 pm
We'll provide recipes for making bread in a bag, and maybe even a take-home bread kit! Please note that supplies are limited.
Groovy grain games
Indigenous Culture and Teaching
Groovy grain games
Saturday, Sep. 25 from 2 to 5 pm
Learn about grain and the milling of wheat to make flour for baking.
Learn to identify of grains, learn abut straw and the final product made from grains such as wheat, oats, flax, canola and more.
Genealogy
Indigenous Culture and Teaching
Indigenous Culture and Teaching
Saturday, Sep. 25 from 2 to 5 pm
Meet with Lynda or Doris at the Genealogy Table and get some hints as to how to trace back your family history.
Both Lynda and Doris can tell you about the Yorkton Genealogy Group and tell you some of the stories of Yorkton’s past. Let them help you find out more about yours!
Indigenous Culture and Teaching
Indigenous Culture and Teaching
Indigenous Culture and Teaching
Each Tuesday of Culture Days from 5 to 7 pm
Elders will open each day with prayer, tobacco and smudging, and a cultural teaching.
September 28: Drum group, traditional songs and dance demonstration;
October 5: Treaty 4 Bingo;
October 12: Beading workshop;
October 19: Importance of picking herbs, sage and sweetgrass braiding;
October 26: Bannock making.
News about the flour mill
Outdoor panels telling local and mill history expanded
Rally Round the Mill and lots more fun happened August 7
Rally Round the Mill and lots more fun happened August 7
The storyboards telling the history of Yorkton were expanded again in June of 2021 with the addition of seven more 4x8 foot panels.
Further additions to the storyboards are planned for later this summer and next year.
The outdoor panels, accessible year-found on the south side of the mill, tell the history of the Yorkton area from the time it was inhabited by the First Nations. They were officially unveiled on Oct. 8, 2020.
Rally Round the Mill and lots more fun happened August 7
Rally Round the Mill and lots more fun happened August 7
Rally Round the Mill and lots more fun happened August 7
The Yorkton Brick Flour Mill Society hosted its first Rally Round the Mill fundraiser August 7.
It was a day of activities that included a pancake brunch, live entertainment, a road rally, burger barbeque, vintage vehicle show and shine, and a drive-in movie.
First online auction supported flour mill project
Rally Round the Mill and lots more fun happened August 7
First online auction supported flour mill project
An online auction, the first-ever for the Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society, raised nearly $8,000 for the project to restore and preserve Yorkton's original flour mill, the last such mill in the province.
Bidding on 83 items and experiences took place over a one-week period starting June 10, with 120 bidders from across western Canada taking part. The items were provided by 46 donors, and another three made cash donations to the auction.
Photo: auction organizers Tami Hall and Juanita Brown.