Stewart Collection ➔ Stock Certificate
Archival Item
2008.5.38 a-b
a: Capital stock certificate No 164 from Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited. Certificate is issued to Gordon K. Stewart for 100 shares in the amount of $1.00 per share. Dated January 29th, 1930 and signed by James F. Finnegan, Vice-President of the company. The signature of Clyde Wann, Secretary is also on the certificate, but is crossed out in red ink, and the signature of Gordon Stewart is written below it.
The certificate has the seal of Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited embossed in the lower PR corner, is edge in a gold-coloured border has scenes of miners and mountains.
Reverse of certificate reads "Certificate for Shares of the Capital Stock/ Issued to/ Gordon K. Stewart/ Dated/ Jan 29-1930." Back has a green border, with a scene depicting train, station and sternwheeler on river.
Certificate originally a trifold.
b:Receipt? for above mentioned stock shares issued to Gordon Stewart.
The certificate has the seal of Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited embossed in the lower PR corner, is edge in a gold-coloured border has scenes of miners and mountains.
Reverse of certificate reads "Certificate for Shares of the Capital Stock/ Issued to/ Gordon K. Stewart/ Dated/ Jan 29-1930." Back has a green border, with a scene depicting train, station and sternwheeler on river.
Certificate originally a trifold.
b:Receipt? for above mentioned stock shares issued to Gordon Stewart.
Pilot and former Mountie Andrew Cruickshank and his American
prospector partner, Clyde Wann, founded Yukon’s first commercial airline in November 1927, Yukon Airways & Exploration Company Ltd. The flagship for the company was a Ryan Brougham B-1 monoplane, sistership to Charles Lindberg’s Spirit of St. Louis, in which Lindberg made his historic transatlantic flight.
Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Ltd. was essentially defunct two years later, as all three of its aircraft had crashed by the end of November, 1929.
prospector partner, Clyde Wann, founded Yukon’s first commercial airline in November 1927, Yukon Airways & Exploration Company Ltd. The flagship for the company was a Ryan Brougham B-1 monoplane, sistership to Charles Lindberg’s Spirit of St. Louis, in which Lindberg made his historic transatlantic flight.
Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Ltd. was essentially defunct two years later, as all three of its aircraft had crashed by the end of November, 1929.