Brought over by contractors, Filipinos worked as ore sorters in the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company, or the A-J Mine, and settled in Alaska when the mine closed in 1944.
在承包商的帶領下，菲律賓人在阿拉斯加 - 朱諾黃金礦業公司或A-J礦山擔任礦石淘選員，並於1944年礦山關閉時在阿拉斯加定居。