Yukon who is who

Linda Johnson

Linda Johnson moved to the north in 1974. She served as the Yukon Archivist for twenty years and was later the College Archivist at Yukon College. She was a founding member of the Association of Canadian Archivists, sat on the first Yukon Geographical Place Names Board, has been a long-time member of the Yukon Council of Archives, and was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Linda was instrumental in founding the Yukon Historical and Museums Association in 1977 and was president for many years. She lobbied the Yukon government for heritage legislation and the City of Whitehorse for the purchase of LePage Park. She produced the first Whitehorse Heritage Walking Tour booklet and started the YHMA walking tours of Whitehorse. She has been involved in organizing many important YHMA heritage conferences including Kwaday Kwadan (an oral history conference), the Sa Gwitsi Di Du Gu Ta” conference which brought the original Kohklux and Kandik maps to the Yukon, the Borderlands conference, the Rupertsland conference, and the Governing Under the Midnight Sun conference. Her books include With the People who Live Here: The history of the Yukon Legislature, 1909-1961 (2009), The Kandik Map (2009) and she was a writer and editor on the Whitehorse History Book (2013) project. ¹⁾Linda continues to work as a heritage researcher and consultant in Whitehorse.