Yukon who is who

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George Yoshida
	
George Yoshida made arrangements with Caribou Hotel proprietor Gideon in June 1921 to operate the dining room of the Carcross hotel.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 10 June 1921.)) Carcross was experiencing an increase of tourist business in the early 1920s. Yoshida gained a reputation of a first class cook from his employment in the southern Yukon as the chef at the Caribou Hotel in Carcross and later at the Copper King mine.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 March 1920.)) In November 1921, the Whitehorse paper confirmed that George would have another first class café in operation in Whitehorse. This was in addition to the City café.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 18 November 1921.)) 

The City Café on Main Street in Whitehorse was owned and operated by the Yoshidas - George, Ken, and Harry. They all had wives and children.((Yukon Archives, John D. Scott, //A Life in the Yukon.// Unpublished manuscript, 1992: 27.)) The City Café was renovated and redecorated in May 1924, and while it was closed, the business was carried on in the White Pass Café.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 9 May 1924.)) George Yoshida left on a trip to Japan in November 1925 and returned in early April 1926, in time for the tourist business.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 20 November 1925; //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse, 2 April 1926.))
All of the the Yoshidas left the Yukon in May 1937.((Notes from H. Horback, related to Sally Robinson by Allen Lueck on 26 May 2003.))