Stewart Collection ➔ Photographic Print
Archival Item
2008.5.130
Black and white photograph of Yukon Airways & Exploration Company Ltd. bi-plane, Northern Light (G-CAUZ). Plane is on skis on the snow. A group of people are standing in front of the plane, including a man with a dog sled and dog team. John Patterson is among them (dressed in flight suit). These are the same people in the photograph 2008.5.68
The G-CAUZ replaced the Queen of the Yukon which crashed May 5th, 1928 and was wrecked, as a new Ryan could not be purchased on such short notice. The Alexander Eaglerock was an open-cockpit, 3 passenger plane. Christened the "Northern Light", the aircraft lasted 13 months with Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited, before being wrecked in a crash at Coalmine Lake near Carmacks on November 29, 1929.