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| - | Lonny Johnny was born at Lancing on the Stewart River to parents Isabel [or Elizabeth] and Fred Lightning. Fred Lightning was a trapper and the family moved around a lot.((Dorothy Roberts and Kathy Kosuta, "Eliza Farr,” //In Their Honor.// Whitehorse: Ye Sa To Communications Society, 1989: 26-28.)) Fred’s father, //Johnì,// came from Fort Good Hope in the NWT and travelled to Lansing Creek by dog team. He trapped all over – at Wind River, Bonnet Plume, Snake River, Little Arctic River, and Arctic Red River. Lonnie’s mother’s father came from Fort McPherson and his mother Elizabeth [?] married Johnny, a man from Inuvik. Lonny’s sister, Eliza Farr, lived in Dawson. Lonny’s extended family spent the summers in Lansing.((Jody Cox, “History of Lansing, Yukon.” Prepared for Yukon Government, Heritage Branch. March 1999: 22. Lansing final report (gov.yk.ca))\\ | + | Lonny Johnny was born at Lancing on the Stewart River to parents Isabel [or Elizabeth] and Fred Lightning. Fred Lightning was a trapper and the family moved around a lot.((Dorothy Roberts and Kathy Kosuta, "Eliza Farr.” //In Their Honor.// Whitehorse: Ye Sa To Communications Society, 1989: 26-28.)) Fred’s father, //Johnì,// came from Fort Good Hope in the NWT and travelled to Lansing Creek by dog team. He trapped all over – at Wind River, Bonnet Plume, Snake River, Little Arctic River, and Arctic Red River. Lonnie’s mother’s father came from Fort McPherson and his mother Elizabeth [?] married Johnny, a man from Inuvik. Lonny’s sister, Eliza Farr, lived in Dawson. Lonny’s extended family spent the summers in Lansing.((Jody Cox, “History of Lansing, Yukon.” Prepared for Yukon Government, Heritage Branch. March 1999: 22. Lansing final report (gov.yk.ca))\\ |
| In 1890, Frank Braine, an independent trader, persuaded the Mountain people to cross the Cordillera divide and settle on the Stewart River near Braine’s trading post near the mouth of Lansing Creek. Lonny Johnny made this trek across the Mackenzie Mountains with his family when he was a small boy.((Dolores Cline Brown, //Timeless Trails of the Yukon.// Surrey B.C.: Hancock House. 2002: 28, 100 131-136.)) Johnny was raised at Lansing.((Dick North, "Land Reconnaissance for Oil Pipeline Route Over Mackenzie Mountains" | In 1890, Frank Braine, an independent trader, persuaded the Mountain people to cross the Cordillera divide and settle on the Stewart River near Braine’s trading post near the mouth of Lansing Creek. Lonny Johnny made this trek across the Mackenzie Mountains with his family when he was a small boy.((Dolores Cline Brown, //Timeless Trails of the Yukon.// Surrey B.C.: Hancock House. 2002: 28, 100 131-136.)) Johnny was raised at Lansing.((Dick North, "Land Reconnaissance for Oil Pipeline Route Over Mackenzie Mountains" | ||
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