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Drago Kokanov (1939 – 2020)

Drago Kokanov was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia to Sofija and Kuzman Kokanov.1) Drago and his wife Anna bought the Keno City Café from Luigi and Gina Cambiotti and ran a successful café for many years before they sold it to Geordie Dobson.2) For a time, they leased the Silver Inn Hotel in Keno. Finally the Kokanovs developed the Silver Trail Inn at Halfway Lake, the site of Halfway House, twenty miles from Mayo on the Silver Trail.3) Drago died peacefully in Whitehorse land his wife Anna died a few weeks later.4)

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“Drago Kokanov.” Yukon News (Whitehorse) 31 July 2020.
2)
“Keno City Historical Buildings Walking Tour.” Yukon Government, nd.
3)
Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, Gold & Galena. Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 153, 286.
k/d_kokanov.txt · Last modified: 2024/11/18 11:07 by sallyr