Elwy McMurran Yost

1925 - 2011  (86 years)

• Name	Elwy McMurran Yost
  Born	10 Jul 1925	Weston, York Co., Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Famous	Television personality
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-109246
  Died	21 Jul 2011
  Person ID	I109246	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Elwy Honderich Yost,   b. 17 Jun 1885, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 25 Mar 1940  (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Josephine McMurran,   b. Between 1893 and 1894, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 18 Jun 1889
  Married	27 Jul 1916	Vineland, Welland Co., Ontario   [1]
  Family ID	F27832	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Graham Yost
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F59958	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Born in Weston, Ontario, the son of pickle manufacturer Elwy Honderich Yost and Annie Josephine McMurran. In his youth, the senior Yost would give his son a dime a week to go see a movie on condition that he'd then recount the plot. Yost graduated from the Weston Collegiate and Vocational School in 1943. He began studies at the University of Toronto in 1943, and studied engineering but left, in 1944, after failing his exams and joined the Canadian Infantry in 1944. He was honorably discharged in September 1945. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1948, he worked variously in construction, at the Canadian National Exhibition, made an independent film with a classmate and acted in summerstock theatre. In 1951, he was working in the circulation department of the Toronto Star where he met his future wife, Lila Melby. He also worked in the Avro Canada personnel department from 1953 until 1959 when he and most of the staff were laid off due to the cancellation of the Avro Arrow project. He then worked as an English and History teacher at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate in Etobicoke, Ontario..... wikipedia 2013 _____________________ Elwy became noted for this television work including "Saturday Night at the Movies" interviewing many movie stars describing their roles in Cinema. His son Graham Yost is a noted screenwriter, producer.

  
  

• Sources

  [S721] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, marriage certificate 131710 (1916), Elwy H. Yost-Josephine McMurran. Elwy H. Yost, 31, manufacturer of Baden, b. Wellesley, s/o John R. Yost & Magdalane Hondrich, married Josephine McMurran, 22, residence Toronto, b Toronto, d/o Joseph McMurran & Eliaza Jane McLean married 27 Jul 1916 Vineland

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 10 Jul 1925 - Weston, York Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth