Stewart Collection ➔ Contract
Archival Item
2008.5.23
Employment Contract
Typed, two page paper employment contract between John M. Patterson and Yukon Airways and Exploration Company, Ltd. Dated May 28, 1928, the contract details the conditions of employment for John Patterson as chief pilot for Yukon Airways. The contract was for six months beginning April 1st, 1929. Yukon Airways agreed to pay Patterson "a salary of $400 per month..."
John Patterson "shall fly such hours, from time to time as weather conditions, and his own health and phsical condition permit".
The contract is not signed. There is a third balnk page attached to the contract.
The contract was possibly originally a trifold as the back page has typed on it "Dated: 28th May, 1929/ The Yukon Airways and Exploration Co., Limited,/-and-/ John M. Patterson/ Agreement/ G.E.McLeod"
John Patterson "shall fly such hours, from time to time as weather conditions, and his own health and phsical condition permit".
The contract is not signed. There is a third balnk page attached to the contract.
The contract was possibly originally a trifold as the back page has typed on it "Dated: 28th May, 1929/ The Yukon Airways and Exploration Co., Limited,/-and-/ John M. Patterson/ Agreement/ G.E.McLeod"
Yukon Airways and Exploration Company, Ltd. was formed in 1927 by Clyde G. Wann as president and Andy Cruickshank as chief pilot. It was the first commercial airline in the Yukon. It had the air mail contract and helped to open up the Yukon. The company was essentially defunct by 1930, with three crashed planes and the first Yukon aviation fatality, John "Pat" Patterson, pilot for Yukon Airways.