Harry Bradley Parkin (d. 1918) Harry Parkin was an early settler in Dawson, working for the North American Transportation and Trading Company and then a member of the brokerage firm of R.C. Wood & Company. He met his wife when she arrived from Chicago as a stenographer for the company. In 1918, he was a resident of Fairbanks, Alaska and was the auditor and general manager of Waechter Brothers Pacific Coast Cold Storage Company, based in Seattle. His wife and daughter had visited Dawson that summer and he travelled on the //Princess Sofia// to join them in Seattle where they lived. He drowned when the //Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 90.))