George Tribe (1860 – 1918) George Tribe was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. For twenty-one years he spent the summers in the Yukon as an employee of the White Pass & Yukon Route working as a steward on the sternwheeler //Dawson.// He spent the winters in Victoria where his wife and children lived. George Tribe drowned when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 106.))