Yukon who is who

George S. Shimada (1881 – 1918)

George Shimada was born in Kumamoto, Japan, about fifty miles from Nagasaki. He spent a couple of seasons in the Mayo area and worked on occasion for the Yukon Gold Company as a cook. One winter, he ran a roadhouse at the mouth of the Twelvemile Creek in Alaska [?], and he operated a laundry in Dawson with Frank (Kagsuza) Tsuji. In 1918, Shimada was living in Seattle and working for White Pass & Yukon Route during the season as a chef on the SS Dawson. He was travelling to Vancouver where he had two brothers and he drowned when the Princess Sophia sank in the Lynn Canal. Frank (Kasuza) Tsuji was also onboard when the ship sank.¹⁾