James J. Flanaghan (1860 – 1918)
	
Charlottetown blacksmith James J. Flanaghan went to the Yukon in 1898 and eventually became a shareholder in a number of gold mines. By 1901, he was a miner living at Cooks Dome Roadhouse on the Ridge Road Trail in the Klondike gold fields.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers. 2004: 127.)) In 1918, he was an employee with Yukon Gold and a member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished,// 2018: 58.))
	
Flanaghan booked his passage to Prince Rupert on the //Princess Sophia// in the fall of 1918 and was drowned when the ship sunk in the Lynn Canal.((Ken Coates & Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 178.)) His body was found the following summer and returned to Prince Edward Island.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers. 2004: 127.))