George Nagano Jr. (b. 1932)

George Nagano was born in Mayo to Chiyo Ruth and George Otoyemon Negano. George Jr. started a long career in highway maintenance in 1954 with a job on the Silver Trail. The Yukon government took over road maintenance from the federal government in 1957. George started working out of the grader stations at Mayo and Stewart Crossing, employed as a heavy equipment operator and truck driver. After twenty-three years on the road, Nagano became road foreman in Dawson, a position he held from 1980 to 1998. He was also the area northern superintendent for two years. He retired in 1998 after forty-four years with the government. He worked for two years with Klondike Transport and then returned to the Yukon government as an auxiliary on-call operator at the Eagle Plains Grader Station. At times there was three generations of his family working with Yukon Highways and Public Works. George Nagano was inducted into the Yukon Transportation Hall of Fame as the 2019 Yukon Transportation Person.¹⁾