Mortimer “Harry” Bridges (1878 – 1918)

Harry Bridges was born in Victoria, British Columbia, the son of George Bridges. He went to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1898 and worked in a café in Fairbanks, and later in Dawson, for eighteen years. He was the proprietor of the Yukon Café in Dawson in 1918 and had not left the town in five years. He and his wife bought a ticket to Vancouver as a pleasure trip and they drowned in 1918 when the Princess Sophia sank in the Lynn Canal. The body of Mrs. Ethel Hazel Bridges, nee Woodsworth was the first one recovered after the wreck of the ship.¹⁾