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Jean Lamont Johnson fonds
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5 cm of textual records. -- 27 photographs
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Jean Lamont, 1899-1992, was born in Woodstock, Ontario and moved to Calgary with her family in 1912. She taught school near Calgary for several years, and ca. 1927 married Lawrence Branch "Laurie" Johnson, 1894-1987, a wrangler from Cochrane. They had two children, Donna Carroll (Butters), 1929-2015, and Margaret Jean "Peggy" (Schmalty). Jean and Laurie homesteaded and ranched in the Keystone Valley west of Cochrane, Alberta. They sold their Lazy JL Ranch to Donna in 1964 and moved to Calgary in 1969. In the 1970s Jean was involved in writing the history of Morley for Big Hill Country : Cochrane Area / Cochrane and Area Historical Society. - Cochrane, 1977. She also wrote a biography of her father-in-law, Everett Cyril "Ebb" Johnson, 1860-1946, a cattle driver, rancher and butcher after whom Owen Wister's The Virginian was written. Johnson married Mary Eleanor Bigland, 1866-1959, a sister of Emily Bigland Rice-Jones. For further information see The Cowboy Legend : Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier / John Jennings. -- Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2015.
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The fonds consists of Jean's reminiscent articles about Cochrane, Morley, Stoneys and other areas residents in the 1920s and 1930s (ca. 1974) and manuscript of her biography of Everett Johnson (1967). Also consists of photographs of Cochrane and Morley residents (1900-1940s), Laurie and the Cochrane polo team (1925-1934), and Everett Johnson (1882).
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Gift of Jean Johnson, 1968-1981.
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Interviews with Jean and Laurie Johnson are available at the Bert Sheppard Stockmen's Memorial Foundation Library & Archives. There is a recorded interview with Jean and Laurie Johnson in the Michael J. Weiss Oral History Project, at Glenbow (RCT 95).
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Call numbers M-595, M-596, M-702, M-2694, M-4018, M-4019, M-5657, PA-1696, PA-1800, PA-2273, NA-2924
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- Johnson, Jean Lamont (Subject)
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