Yukon who is who

Harry Yamasaki

Harry Yamasaki and his wife, Tome, worked as cooks for the Guggenheim's Yukon Gold Co. in Dawson. When the company opened a camp in the Mayo district, they sent the Yamasakis there. Harry built the Galena Hotel in Keno and the family operated it through the 1920s.¹⁾ Tome was a Korean nurse who administered first aid when needed.²⁾ After his wife's death, Harry sold the hotel and moved, with his children, back to Japan.³⁾ There is a photo of Harry outside his hotel in 1926.⁴⁾