BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE

cities and towns en route. Since then she has
crossed the Rocky Mountains no fewer than
nineteen times.

Miss Johnson’: pen had not been idle, and in 1903
the Geo. N. Morang Co., of Toronto. published her
second book of poems, entitled “Canadian Born,”
which was also well received.

After a number of recitals, which included New-
foundland and the Maritime Provinces, she went to
England again in 1906 and made her first appearance
in Steinway Hall, under the distinguished patronage
of Lord and Lady Strathcona. In the following year
she again viited London, returning by way of the
United States, where she gave many recitals. After
another tour of Canada she decided to give up public
work, to make Vancouver, B. C., her home, and to
devote herself to literary work.

Only a woman of remarkable powers of endurance
could have borne up under the hardships necessarily
encountered in travelling through North-westem
Canada in pioneer days as Miss Johnson did; and
shortly after settling down in Vancouver the ex-
posure and hardhip she had endured began to tell
on her, and her health completely broke down.
For almost a year she has been an invalid, and as
she is unable to attend to the business herself, a
trust has been formed by some of the leading citizens
of her adopted city for the purpose of collecting and
publishing for her benefit, her later works. Among
these are the beautiful Indian Legends contained in
this volume, which she has been at great pains to
collect, and a series of boys’ stories, which have
been exceedingly well received by magazine readers.

During the sixteen years Miss Johnson was tra-
velling, she had many varied and interesting exper-
iences. She travelled the old Battleford trail before

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