- Father of Christopher Yost and writer/director Graham Yost.
- Before his career as a TV host, he worked in a variety of occupations. He served in the Canadian Army, worked in construction, tried his hand at acting, worked for Avro Aircraft Ltd in industrial relations, and taught high-school English. He met his future wife while working in the circulation department of the Toronto Star.
- In 1975, Yost's suggestion won the competition to rename the Ontario Educational Communications Authority. "TVOntario" has been in use ever since.
- Long-time host of movie presentations, and interviewer of many film celebrities, for TVOntario (a regional noncommercial TV network in Ontario, Canada). (1974-1999).
- Because he always appears seated in a comfortable chair on these shows, a furniture store once hired him to do a TV commercial for them.
- He was awarded the C.M. (Member of the Order of Canada) on April 15, 1999 and given the honor by Governor-General Roméo Leblanc on September 23, 1999 for his services to communications in Canada.
- Yost had been a high school English teacher before joining TV Ontario. One of his former students said of him, "Elwy teaches in Technicolor, and he tells a story in Panavision.".
- The one partial difficulty the various series producers had with Yost as host is that he was such a devotee to film that he seemed to enjoy every film that TVO managed to acquire for presentation. That made selecting which specific films to be worth airing more difficult than with a more discriminating host.
- West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (July 2007)
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