1938
The Whitehorse Star Reports in 1938
January | |
January 7, 1938 | Northern Airways Company Ltd. is awarded the new airmail contract between Vancouver and Whitehorse. The inaugural flight from Vancouver is made January 8, 1938. |
February | |
February 4, 1938 → February 11, 1938 |
The Board of Trade is re-organized at a meeting on January 27, W.D. MacBride is elected president. Vice president is G.R. Bidlake. |
March | |
March 11, 1938 | C.J. Rogers is appointed vice-president of the White Pass & Yukon Route company. |
March 25, 1938 | Work on a new tramway system, the Hector-Elsa wire-rope tramway, begin in spring 1938. |
April | |
April 15, 1938 | W.J. Mulvihill is re-elected mayor of Skagway for his fifteenth term. |
May | |
May 20, 1938 | Northern Commercial Co. purchases John N. Spence grocery business in Dawson. |
May 27, 1938 | The navigation season opens with the departure of the streamer Casca for Dawson on May 23, 1938. |
August | |
August 5, 1938 | The first consignment of air mail to reach Whitehorse direct from Vancouver arrives August 4, 1938. The new airmail service contract has been awarded to the Ginger Coote Airways Ltd. |
August 5, 1938 | After 30 years, Sam McGee comes back to Whitehorse. |
October | |
October 14, 1938 | Antoinette Hobbis is Miss Yukon for 1938-39. |
October 28, 1938 | Leslie Cook of Northern Airways Ltd. makes an emergency flight through blinding snowstorm to pick up an injured miner. |
December | |
December 9, 1938 | T.C. Richards and E.F. Keobke produce the first gold brick ever to be secured from quartz property in the southern end of the Yukon. |