Photographic Print
Archival Item
1996.36.8
Photo shows a man standing aboard freight deck of the sternwheeler Keno. Life ring, freight deck, observation deck exteriors visible.
Inscription on back reads: "1941/ Wm. "Rux" Ruxton - deckhand/ Str. Klondike crew working Str. Keno/ Whitehorse to Dawson City trips."
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 reads: "1941/ Wm. "Rux" Ruxton - deckhand/ Str. Klondike crew working Str. Keno/ Whitehorse to Dawson City trips."
One of a group of eight black and white snapshots (copies) depicting 'life on the steamers and around Whitehorse' in the early 1940s.
George Pihan spent the 1941 season working on the White Pass and Yukon Route (W.P.&Y.R.) sternwheelers.
The SS KENO was constructed in 1922, in Whitehorse, by the British Yukon Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway company. For most of its career it transported silver, zinc and lead ore down the Stewart River from mines in the Mayo district to the confluence of the Yukon and Stewart rivers at Stewart City. It was retired from commercial service in 1951 due to the extension and improvement of the Klondike Highway in the years after World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Keno
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Keno