Stewart Collection ➔ Photographic Print
Archival Item
2008.5.131
Black and white portrait photograph of Gordon Stewart.
Donor caption reads:"G.K. Stewart/ Taken by the Vancouver Providence/ Spring 1930/ Likely just turned 22/ To be used as an obituary notice/ in case they never got back to the/ Yukon with the new plane.
Donor caption reads:"G.K. Stewart/ Taken by the Vancouver Providence/ Spring 1930/ Likely just turned 22/ To be used as an obituary notice/ in case they never got back to the/ Yukon with the new plane.
Gordon Stewart joined Yukon Airways & Exploration Company Ltd. in the summer of 1929 when the company purchased a new Ryan B5, to be the Queen of the Yukon II. The plane was picked up in St. Louis, Missouri by pilot John Patterson and flown to Seattle, Washington. It was in Seattle that Gordon Stewart began his tenure with Yukon Airways. Pontoons were fitted on the plane at Renton airport and they began their barnstorming trip up the west coast of B.C. on their way to the Yukon.