Photographic Print
Archival Item
1996.36.2
Photo shows three men; Bill Ruxton, Len Saunders and Bill Keillor, deckhands aboard S.S. Klondike standing in front of Yukon Queen Aircraft at Whitehorse Airport, 1941.
Inscription on back of photo reads: "Str. Klondike crew on evening stroll to Whitehorse airfield to admire " 'Yukon Queen'."
One of a group of eight black and white snapshots (copies) depicting 'life on the steamers and around Whitehorse' in the early 1940s.
Inscription on back of photo reads: "Str. Klondike crew on evening stroll to Whitehorse airfield to admire " 'Yukon Queen'."
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.