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Charles F. Johnson fonds
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35 photographs. -- 2 cm of textual records
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Charles F. Johnson, ?-1935, was trained as an engineer and mechanic but travelled to the Klondike in 1897 as a prospector. A year later he became an assistant teacher at St. Peter's mission school at the Anglican mission at Hay River, NWT. In 1909 he travelled to Arctic missions with Bishop Isaac O. Stringer and Archdeacon Whittaker. During this journey they became lost and had to eat boot leather in order to survive. For the next ten years he was manager of Chooutla Indian Residential School, Carcross, Yukon, and then for seven years was principal of St. Paul's Hostel, Dawson City, Yukon. In 1933 he was ordained a deacon. He was married and had at least one child, Mrs. G.W. Rusler.
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The fonds consists of photographs of St. Peter's mission school, Hay River and Slaveys; diary of his journey to the Arctic coast with Bishop Stringer (July 8-October 19, 1909); letters from missionaries Margaret Tims and Bertie March (1897, 1905); and a Slavey grammar and dictionary apparently compiled by Margaret Tims.
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Gift of Mrs. G.W. Rusler, 1982.
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No finding aid, but the diary has been digitized. http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingaids/archhtm/extras/johnsonc/m-6246.pdf
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Call numbers M-6246, M-6938, NA-4433
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- Johnson, Charles F. (Subject)
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- English