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DC-3 CF-xxx   Eldorado Mining & Refining Co at CYUB/Tuktoyaktuk village (24 May 1962). To ferry crew from both CYXD  and CYEV(was 11 hour non stop flight ) . Then (because 24 hours of daylight exists above 60th parallel on May 24th) that DC-3 could continue shuttling 25 passengers and cargo off the larger DC-4 from CYEV to CYUB. (In those days corporate pilots “duty days" were more than 15 hours; perhaps same in 2015??)  " NTCL was an outgrowth of the competition in the Yukonbetween the new Northern Trading Company and the entrenched Hudson's Bay Company.^[6] Colonel J.K. Cornwell, one of the principals of the Northern Trading Company,^[6] ran his first steamer, The Midnight Sun, on the Lesser Slave Lake River in 1904.^[7] The company acted as a kind of subsidiary of the Northern Trading Company until its formal creation in 1930 as Northern Waterways Limited, but its name was changed in 1934 to the Northern Transportation Company Limited.^[8] It was one of the first haulers on the Mackenzie River after the Hudson's Bay Company,^[9] starting up just after the Yukon gold rush. In 1936, it was taken over by the Eldorado Gold Mines Limited^[9] and Arthur Berrywas appointed manager in Edmonton. In 1944, it became a Crown corporation when its parent, then known as Eldorado Mining and Refining, was nationalized by the government of Canada.^[8]