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Johnston Family Bibliography

For those wanting to read about the Johnston family in the available published sources, the list below contains books authored by family members (demonstrating a range of interests) and a selection of historical books and articles that tell some of the family's story.

  • Armstrong, Bruce. “The Atlantic Cowboy.” Sable Island. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1981. 126–35. Republished, Halifax: Formac, 1987, 2010.
  • “Arthur Livingstone Johnson, B. A., M. D., C. M.” British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present. By E. O. S. Scholefied and F. W. Howay. Vancouver: Clarke, 1914. 3:660–63. Republished, British Columbia Pictorial and Biographical. Winnipeg: Clarke, 1914. 2:506–8.
  • Barry, Sandra. “Nova Scotia Connections: A Day in the Life of Great Village: The Post Office and Its Postmaster.” Elizabeth Bishop Centenary, 1 Feb. 2012.
  • ---. “Nova Scotia Connections: The Post Office.” Elizabeth Bishop Centenary, 16 July 2010.
  • “Charles Russell McKenzie.” Revue du Barreau du Québec 31.5 (Nov. 1971): 596–97.
  • “Coll Man’s Distinction in U.S.A.” Oban Times 17 July 1943: 2.
  • “Death of Noted Gaelic Composer: The Late Mr John Macdonald, Oban.” Oban Times 14 Mar. 1953: 3.
  • Currie, Robert J., and Phillip Saunders. “Hugh M. Kindred: A Tribute.” Dalhousie Law Journal 35.2 (2012): i–iii.
  • Gibson, John G. “Hector Johnston, Piper to Coll.” Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745—1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998. 278–80. Republished, Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005.
  • Harnish, Susan. Dancehall Daughter: Growing Up in the Shore Club in the 1950s. Hubbards: Beach Road, 2016.
  • Holloway, Nancy (Johnson). “Charles S. Johnson.” Chatter Chips from Beaver Dam Creek: Castor and Her Neighbours, 1909-1974. By Jessie J. Campbell. Castor: Jessie J. Campbell, 1974. 241.
  • In Memoriam of the Late Murdoch Johnston. N.p.: n.p., n.d.
  • Johnson, A. H. Experiential Realism. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973.
  • ---. Modes of Value. New York: Philosophical Library, 1978.
  • ---. Philosophers in Action. Columbus: Merrill, 1977.
  • ---. Whitehead and His Philosophy. Lanham: University Press of America, 1983.
  • ---. Whitehead’s Philosophy of Civilization. Boston: Beacon, 1958. New ed., New York: Dover, 1962.
  • ---. Whitehead’s Theory of Reality. Boston: Beacon, 1952. New ed., New York: Dover, 1962.
  • Johnson, Arthur Livingstone. The History of Canada Lodge: Fifty Years of Anglo-Canadian Freemasonry in London. London: Standing Committee of Canada Lodge, 1961.
  • Johnson, B. Witness to the Word: The Story of Grace Baptist Church. Courtenay: Grace Baptist Church, 2024.
  • Johnson, Charles H. The Story That Never Grows Old. Wolfville: Davidson, 1944.
  • Johnson, Charles S. “Pioneer Member Writes Vivid Story of Early Days.” Western Farm Leader 17 July 1942: 2–3.
  • Johnson, D. W. History of Methodism in Eastern British America Including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Bermuda from the Beginning till the Consummation of Union with the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches in 1925. Sackville: Tribune, n.d. [1925].
  • Johnson, J. A. Billy Graham—The Jehoshaphat of Our Generation? Bangalore: Biblical Publications, 1968 (2nd ed., 1969).
  • Johnson, Mrs. C. S. “Mrs. C. S. Johnson.” Chatter Chips from Beaver Dam Creek: Castor and Her Neighbours, 1909-1974. By Jessie J. Campbell. Castor: Jessie J. Campbell, 1974. 242.
  • “Johnston.” They Came to Mara…: Pioneers of Mara Township, Circa 1829-1900. Brechin: Township of Mara, n.d. [1993]. 445–56.
  • Johnston, Brian. “My Johnston Family of Coll.” Coll Magazine 22 (2004): 38–40.
  • Johnston, Edith Farrington. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan, 1947.
  • Johnston, Murdoch. “Letter from Canada.” Coll Magazine 16 (1998): 15–17.
  • Kindred, Sheila Johnson. Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.
  • Lim, Sarah. “A Merced Lawyer Who Gave Kidnappers the Slip.” Merced Sun-Star 6 May 2017: 7B, 8B.
  • Lowe, Victor, Charles Hartshorne, and A. H. Johnson. Whitehead and the Modern World: Science, Metaphysics, and Civilization: Three Essays on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead. Boston: Beacon, 1950. Republished, New York: Books for Libraries, 1972.
  • MacDonald, Mona. Anchored in Time: A Compilation of Stories and Pictures That Preserve the History of Life Along the Shores of Seafoam and Toney River. N.p.: n.p., n.d.
  • ---. Anchored in Time II: A Compilation of Stories and Pictures That Preserve the History of Life Along the Shores of the Northumberland Strait. N.p.: n.p., n.d. [2013].
  • MacDougall, Betty. “An Interesting Family.” Coll Magazine 17 (1999): 14–16.
  • “Mackenzie, Daniel D., M.P.” A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief Biographies of Persons Distinguished in the Professional, Military and Political Life, and the Commerce and Industry of Canada, in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Hector Charlesworth. Toronto: Hunter-Rose, 1919. 294–95.
  • Maclean-Bristol, Nicholas. From Clan to Regiment. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2007.
  • “A Noted Highlander: John Johnston, Coll.” Oban Times 14 May 1921: 2.
  • Pitts, Gordon. “Nova Scotian Lawyer Became Margaret Thatcher’s Favourite Fixer.” Globe and Mail 16 Aug. 2025: O12.
  • ---. The Last Canadian Knight: The Unintended Business Adventures of Sir Graham Day. Halifax: Nimbus, 2017.
  • Sinclair, A. Maclean. “The Island of Coll: Some Historical Reminiscences.” Oban Times 14 July 1900: 3.
  • Sutherland, Sir William. “The Late Mr John Johnston of Coll: An Appreciation.” Oban Times 7 May 1921: 5.
  • Wright, Beulah Jane. “Duncan Johnson, Ship Designer of Note.” Pioneer Spring 2019: [14].