Stewart Collection ➔ Negative, Film
Archival Item
2008.5.137
Black and white negative of a man, Gordon Stewart, standing in a yard. Stewart is dressed in a leather aviator-style jacket. A small corner of a building or house is visible. The background foliage indicates that this photo was not likely taken in the Yukon; possibly is at his parent's home in Seattle, Washington.
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. Floats 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.