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- [ca. 1935] (Creation)
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0.5 cm of textual records
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Biographical history
George Hope Johnston, 1857-1938, was born in Leith, Scotland and homesteaded in Manitoba in 1879. He moved to the East Kootenays, near Windermere, in 1883. During the 1885 Riel Rebellion (North West Rebellion) he policed the area near the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). Soon after he joined his brother, John Lee Johnston, in sheep and cattle ranching near Rosebud, Alberta. About 1910 he joined the office of the sheriff of the Southern Alberta judicial district in Calgary and in 1916 became an editor at the Calgary Albertan newspaper. He retired in 1935. in 1887 he married Amy Georgina Young, 1867-1894, and they had four children, George Elwyn Hope "Paddy", 1890-?, Roland Hope, 1892-1918, James Llewellyn Hope, 1888-?, and Amy Fanny Hope, 1894-1895.
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Gift of Margaret Maw, 1967.
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The fonds consists of a speech of reminiscences about his experiences in the Kootenays.
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The material is in English.
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Photos from the Johnston family are in the George Gooderham fonds, at Glenbow (NA-9-(1-2)).
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Thursday, September 06, 2018