Yukon who is who

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Charles F. Johnson (1884 - 1935)
	
Charles Johnson was born in Sweden.((F.A. Peake, //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Biography of Isaac O. Stringer.// Yukon Church Heritage Society, 2001: 108-109.)) He was brought to Chicago in the United States as a child and came to Hay River in 1898 with a party of miners enroute to the Klondike. He stayed at Hay River, became interested in the work of the mission and, in 1901, married Anna May who in 1896 had been a student at the Hay River Mission School. In 1908, he sent his family out to Chicago while he travelled with Bishop Stringer.((“History of Chooutla School.” General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada, Toronto in Yukon Archives search file; Letter from Sophie Rustler to Ruth Privett, June 12, 1985. Old Log Church Museum research files.))  	
	
In 1909, Johnson, Enoch, and Reverend Isaac O. Stringer travelled from Fort McPherson to Herschel Island. The Mackenzie Diocese had been added to Stringer’s responsibilities when Bishop Reeve retired. Stringer and Johnson ran out of food and became lost. It took them three weeks to reach the Peel River and they traversed the mountains instead of crossing them. They finally reached William Vittrekwa's camp on the Peel, twenty miles below Fort McPherson. During the last few days, they were eating boiled sealskin boots.((Melanie Needham, "Bishop Isaac O. Stringer: Missionary to the Yukon." Yukon Church Heritage Society, 1999.))   
	
In 1913, Bishop Stringer asked Johnson to manage the Chooutla residential school in Carcross, which he did from 1914 to 1922. Johnson also ran the school farm. He bought game from the First Nation hunters to supplement the student’s diet which some of his successors would not do. Mrs. Johnson came with her husband to Carcross and worked as the housekeeper. She was a life member of the church Women’s’ Auxiliary (W.A.).  Mrs. Johnson caught pneumonia in 1919 and died.((“History of Chooutla School.” General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada, Toronto in the Yukon Archives search file.)) Their daughter, Sophie (Rustler), went out to school in 1918. ((Letter from Sophie Rustler to Ruth Privett, June 12, 1985. Old Log Church Museum research files.)) Anna May Johnson is buried in Carcross and the pews at the Anglican St. Saviour’s church are dedicated in her memory.((“History of Chooutla School.” General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada, Toronto in the Yukon Archives search file.))
	 

Johnson married Miss May McLenaghan, the housekeeper at the school, in January 1921.((F.A. Peake, //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Biography of Isaac O. Stringer.// Yukon Church Heritage Society, 2001: 108-109.)) In 1922, Johnson and his wife moved to Dawson to take charge of St. Paul’s Hostel.((“History of Chooutla School.” General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada, Toronto in the Yukon Archives search file.)) Charles Johnson was a lay reader at the hostel in 1923. After twenty years of service, he left the hostel in 1935 and moved to Moosehide.((“The Anglican Church in Yukon.” Old Log Church Museum research files.)) Sophie Rustler returned to Dawson and taught at the school from 1928 to 1935.((Letter from Sophie Rustler to Ruth Privett, June 12, 1985. Old Log Church Museum research files.))