Vic Johnson (d.1986) and Katie Johnson
	
Vic Johnson was working at Trout Lake, British Columbia when Grant McConachie approached him about a job. McConachie’s radio station at Watson Lake was established that year and Johnson was as hired by United Air Transport in 1938 to open up a base at Watson Lake for the airline. McConachie had worked with Vic before and called him "Tiny" in his book //Bush Pilot with a Briefcase.// Vic met Katie Wills some years before at the Grande Prairie hospital. She came to Watson Lake for a visit in 1945 and stayed to became Katie Johnson in 1946. Vic constructed a house by pushing an old pump house to an old military post office and adding another old building. It was just off the flight path to runway 27 at the Watson Lake airport. Vic was a big man and, in his prime, he could lift a 45-gallon drum into the back of a pickup. Katie had over 200 foster children and she and Vic had one natural daughter, Grace. Janet was brought to the Johnsons as a 24-hour old baby, not expected to live. She lived but started in a box on the warm oven door, fed with an eyedropper every hour for a few days. The Vic and Katie Johnson Elementary School was dedicated in 1980 and they received the Commissioner's Award in 1981 with a certificate that stated no child was ever turned from their door.((Doug Bell, "Katie and Vic." //The Yukon Reader.//  Article supplied by Annie Johnson, nd.))