Yorkton (Sask.)

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A log house carved from a giant redwood log

  • R-A14952
  • Item
  • 1950

Item is an image (likely) taken near Yorkton that shows a log house carved from a hollowed out section of a single 1900 year old redwood tree which had been found on the property of the Georgia Pacific Lumber Co., near Eureka, California. The full tree was 4.26 m (14 feet) in diameter and over 80 m (267 feet) high, with the resultant structure 2.5 m (8 feet) wide at one end and 2.85 m (9 feet 4 inches) at the other, and is 10 m (33 feet) long.

First reinforced concrete arch bridge of the type, built by Provincial government on the main road east of Yorkton

  • R-B196 (1)-(3)
  • Item
  • 1916

Yorkton district - first reinforced concrete arch bridge of the type built by the Provincial government on the main road east of Yorkton in 1916. Inscription on back of (3) notes location "north of section 31, township 25, range 3, west of 2nd meridian" and building "partly by contract (Messrs. Laidlaw Bros.) but completed by Bridge Foreman E.T. Lucey, with his crew on a day labor basis".