Yukon who is who

Charles Tetsujiro Kagawa (1881 - 1918)

Charles Kagawa was born near Yokohama, Japan. He and his brother Hirozo came to British Columbia as young men. Hirozo worked at Britannia Beach and Charles came to the Yukon sometime after the gold rush. He prospected, worked for miners, and cooked in some of the larger dredge camps around Dawson. In 1918 he heard there were promising prospects in Siberia and decided to go there.¹⁾ He used his life savings of $1000 to book passage on the SS Sophia in 1918, and he died with all aboard when the ship sank in the Lynn Canal.²⁾