fonds F1050 - Jean Lamont Johnson fonds

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.