Photographic Print
Archival Item
1996.36.1
Photo shows George Pihan, deckhand aboard S.S. Klondike standing in front of Yukon Queen aircraft at Whitehorse airport, 1941.
One of a group of eight black and white snapshots (copies) depicting 'life on the steamers and around Whitehorse' in the early 1940s.
One of a group of eight black and white snapshots (copies) depicting 'life on the steamers and around Whitehorse' in the early 1940s.
These images were taken by the donor.
Grant McConachie 's Yukon Southern Air Transport operated this Barkly- Grow aircraft. By 1941, his company had been bought out, and Grant was working with Canadian Pacific Airlines to establish a series of air fields to service the war time construction of the Alaska Highway. The aircraft was acquired by Canadian Pacific Airlines in late 1943 as CF-BLV.