Notes:

from Clarke Johnson
Edsel had the original trunk that John Johnson brought over from Scotland. He worked in Smith Falls Ontario during the war at a plant that made truck bodies for the military. He boarded at Aunt Maggie Jacksons. He worked 12 hour shifts and 72 hours a week. from 7 pm to 7 am. for approix .49 cents an hour. he remembers Aunt Maggie coaxing her husband to take her an Edsel and Delmer Thibeau to the Ottawa Exibition. Edsel remembers them going into the monkey house and there was a female monkey nursing her baby and grooming and eating the fleas? off the baby. Aunt Maggie laughed so hard she nearly peed her pants. They were laughing at the monkey and Aunt Maggie for laughing so hard.

John married Lola GRAHAM on 10 Jun 1948 in Greenwood United Church, Westmeath Twp., Renfrew Co., Ontario. Lola (daughter of Thomas Harold GRAHAM and Rachel BRENNAN) was born on 25 Sep 1928 in Westmeath Twp., Renfrew, Ontario, Canada; died on 30 Jun 2015 in Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Beachburg, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]