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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;north49guy, post: 858554, member: 16065&quot;]I have decided to do my presentation on a great Canadian engraver, Charles Gordon Yorke. I am from Canada and thought it would be neat to look into some more of the great notes that we have here in the north. Here is a picture of Yorke engraving the 1973 $1 reverse logging scene image.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/floridaguy/cgyorke.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Charles Gordon Yorke was born in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1917 and died in 1980. Towards the end of his life a central nervous system disease put him in a wheel chair. Yorke got an early start on engraving and attended the Ontario College of Art. In 1935 he was able to attain an apprenticeship at BABNCo. The very first note he engraved was the 1954 $5. He only engraved the reverse image of the Otter Falls off of the Alaska Highway for this note. Below is a picture of the note.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://www.stevesworld.ca/images/1954_5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yorke also had a huge part in 1969-79 series, engraving reverses for the $1 and $2, and engraving both the portraits and reverses of the $5 and $100. Below is the $1 from 1973. The reverse image is the Parliament buildings with logging scene on the Ottawa River. This is the note that Yorke is seen engraving in the initial picture in this presentation.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://www.stevesworld.ca/images/1973_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also from this series was the 1974 $2 note. This banknote has an Inuit hunting scene on the reverse that was engraved by Yorke. Below is a picture of the note.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://www.stevesworld.ca/images/1974_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yorke also engraved many Canadian postage stamps. Some of these include the First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight, Sir William Osler, and Samuel Hearne. (As shown below)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/floridaguy/scott494.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/floridaguy/scott495stamp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/floridaguy/scott540.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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