Transportation Ticket
Object
2026.20.2
Ticket, Airline
Three Paper airline tickets and three boarding passes for Great Northern Airways Ltd. in a poster paper jacket. The jacket is red and blue and contains the GNA logo. On the back of the jacket is a map with the GNA routes indicated. The ticket cover is blue, with 2 buff carbon copies of the original ticket, which has been removed, probably when the passenger entered the plane. The carbon is red, resulting in the passenger and flight details being printed in red ink.
Airline tickets were handwritten at the time of purchase. When the passenger entered the plane the first copy of the ticket was torn out, leaving the passenger with a carbon copy for their records.
Great Northern Airways was previously known as Connolly – Dawson Airways (formed in 1957). There was consolidation of Connelly-Dawson Airways, Whitehorse Flying Services and Range Airways of Calgary into a new company Great Northern Airways in 1965. It operated scheduled passenger services linking Whitehorse, Mayo and Dawson City (for CP Air), Old Crow, Inuvik, Tuktoyatuk, Sachs Harbour, Ross River, Atlin and Telegraph Creek. It was acquired by TRANS NORTH AIR in 1972.;Great Northern Airways was a short-lived Canadian airline, 1965-1972. It was the result of a consolidation of Connelly-Dawson Airways, Whitehorse Flying Services and Range Airways of Calgary. The airline was acquired by Trans North Air.