Stewart Collection ➔ Stock Certificate
Archival Item
2008.5.39 a-b
a: Capital stock certificate No 209 from Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited. Certificate is issued to Gordon K. Stewart for 50 shares in the amount of $1.00 per share. Dated February 1st, 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/ February 1, 1930." Back has a green border, with a scene depicting train, station and sternwheeler on river.
Certificate originally a trifold.
b:Envelope addressed to Gordon K. Stewart, Mayo, Y.T. from Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited; "Stock Certificate " is written in ink in the PR lower corner. Return address has "Whitehorse" crossed out and "Mayo" written in ink.
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/ February 1, 1930." Back has a green border, with a scene depicting train, station and sternwheeler on river.
Certificate originally a trifold.
b:Envelope addressed to Gordon K. Stewart, Mayo, Y.T. from Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited; "Stock Certificate " is written in ink in the PR lower corner. Return address has "Whitehorse" crossed out and "Mayo" written in ink.
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.
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.