The close-up photo of gargoyles on the old Hudson's Bay building at #19 Broadway Street East. In olden times, elaborate décor lined the edge of roofs of buildings, hiding a drainage system to remove rainwater from the roof. The open mouth of gargoyles were the spouts of this system, and the whole system a fore-runner of modern day eaves troughs. In the case of the Hudson's Bay building, the gargoyles only function as decorations.
Purchase for ten dollars the book Pioneer Ways & Bygone Days - A tour and reminiscence of the old town centre of Yorkton. Take a tour of the downtown using the book as guide, or tour in your armchair reading about the buildings, people and businesses. On sale at City Hall, the Western Development Museum and Tourism Yorkton.
Contact Terri Lefebvre Prince,
Heritage Researcher,
City of Yorkton, Box 400
37 Third Avenue North
Yorkton, Sask. S3N 2W3
306-786-1722
[email protected]
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