Stewart Collection ➔ Letter
Archival Item
2008.5.10 a-b
Typewritten, one-page letter with handwritten notes from Gordon Stewart to Wilda McCormick.
Return address on envelope reads "G.K. Stewart/ Mayo, Yukon Terr./ c/o Yukon Airways" A Yukon Airways & Exploration Co. Ltd. 25 cent stamp is affixed to the front of the envelope along with a 2 cent Canada Postage stamp. A self adhesive post band is affixed across the bottom of the envelope and reads " Air Mail - Care of Yukon Airways & Exploration Co. Ltd. Postmarked Jan 7, 1930, Whitehorse.
Excerpts:
"The trucking business is one of the best. Sometime we get to Keno with our wood and His Majextiesss Mail in about 18 hours and other times we just get to Keno."
Anyway, 'tis a lovely country and if we only had a couple of Airplanes for our country ..."
Handwritten note reads: "Airmail stamps from your side are no good at all. Only put mine on for luck since the Northern Light crashed but maybe they do look nice in the house mail."
Return address on envelope reads "G.K. Stewart/ Mayo, Yukon Terr./ c/o Yukon Airways" A Yukon Airways & Exploration Co. Ltd. 25 cent stamp is affixed to the front of the envelope along with a 2 cent Canada Postage stamp. A self adhesive post band is affixed across the bottom of the envelope and reads " Air Mail - Care of Yukon Airways & Exploration Co. Ltd. Postmarked Jan 7, 1930, Whitehorse.
Excerpts:
"The trucking business is one of the best. Sometime we get to Keno with our wood and His Majextiesss Mail in about 18 hours and other times we just get to Keno."
Anyway, 'tis a lovely country and if we only had a couple of Airplanes for our country ..."
Handwritten note reads: "Airmail stamps from your side are no good at all. Only put mine on for luck since the Northern Light crashed but maybe they do look nice in the house mail."
Gordon Stewart later married Wilda McCormick on July 25, 1931. Although the Yukon Airways & Exploration Co. Ltd. stamp and post band would indicate that this letter was send via air mail, the company was essentially defunct at this point as the Northern Light (G-CAUZ) was wrecked in a crash at Coalmine Lake near Carmacks on November 29, 1929 and the Queen of the Yukon II crashed November 2, 1929.