George S. Shimada (1881 – 1918)
	
George Shimada was born in Kumamoto, Japan, about fifty miles from Nagasaki. He spent a couple of seasons in the Mayo area and worked on occasion for the Yukon Gold Company as a cook. One winter, he ran a roadhouse at the mouth of the Twelvemile Creek in Alaska [?], and he operated a laundry in Dawson with Frank (Kagsuza) Tsuji. In 1918, Shimada was living in Seattle and working for White Pass & Yukon Route during the season as a chef on the //SS Dawson.// He was travelling to Vancouver where he had two brothers and he drowned when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal. Frank (Kasuza) Tsuji was also onboard when the ship sank.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 98.))