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Robert (Bob) A. Johnson was born in Montreal in 1914 and passed away in May 1995, spending his entire working life in aviation. Educated at Montreal Technical School, he joined the RCAF Reserve at St. Hubert, Quebec, 115 (F) Squadron, and then apprenticed at Fairchild Aircraft in Montreal, and also worked at Garage Nicolet in Longueuil and Nicolet. He was also a member of the St. Lawrence Aircraft Association Flying Club in Longueil, Quebec. In 1938, Johnson joined the National Steel Car Company at their plant in Malton, Ontario. He was in charge of the group building the Westland Lysander and the Handley Page Hampden bomber. The Canadian Government bought Malton from National Steel Car Company in 1942 and renamed it Victory Aircraft. He later became group leader for the production planning of the B-26 bomber. During the Second World War, he was in charge of teams building components for the Avro Anson and the Lancaster bomber. When the war ended, he was one of only 300 employees of the 10,000 Victory Aircraft employees to stay at the newly created A. V. Roe Canada Limited.

Johnson played a leading role in the manufacture of all of the Avro aircraft projects and was later chief of field service for the CF-100 Canuck and CF-105 Arrow. After the cancellation of the Arrow project, Johnson survived ‘Black Friday’, continuing with Avro to the point when its parent company, Hawker Siddeley Canada Limited, transferred all of its aviation interests, including the Malton plant, to its other subsidiary, de Havilland Aircraft, in 1962. Now an employee of de Havilland, Johnson was appointed staff assistant to the operations manager on the DC-9 contract and became deputy operations manager in 1964.

Johnson stayed at Malton when Douglas Aircraft of Canada took it over. He held a number of executive positions with the company through the DC-9 and DC-10 contracts, retiring in 1974 after 36 years at the Malton plant. He was an active member of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society in his retirement.

Captain William Johnson (1784-1851) was a sailor in the British Navy, and a farmer on Lot 6, Concession 7 of Georgina Township, Ontario.

Arthur Johnston (1839-1915) was a breeder of short-horn cattle in Claremont, Ontario.

Charles Oliver Johnston (1853-1916) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. He was born at King, Ontario and ordained in 1877. He married Lillie L. Wood, daughter of Rev. George Wood in 1878. In Toronto, he served the following congregations: York, Davenport Road, Bathurst Street, Queen Street and Wesley. Outside of Toronto, he served at Napanee; Kingston; Gore Street, Hamilton; and First Church, Hamilton.

David James Johnston was a munitions plant operator in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood of Toronto during the First World War.

George A. Johnston was a lawyer and Chief Librarian for the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Herbert Johnston was the son of John James Johnston and Margaret Beaty and was born at Meaford on April 21st, 1874. He attended the Public and High Schools at Meaford. From 1892 to 1893 he was postmaster, telegraph operator and general merchant in the village of Hollen (?), Ontario. He attended the County Model School at Owen Sound and received the third class certificate of qualification as a public school teacher on Dec. 14, 1895. For several years he taught in schools at Mountain Lake and North Keppel, before studying Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto, graduating from the School of Practical Science in 1903.

He served his apprenticeship with W. M. Davis, O.L.S. at Kitchener and was granted his certificate in February, 1905. Mr. Johnston joined Mr. Davis in partnership from 1904 to 1910, and was also Assistant City Engineer at Kitchener. He was City Engineer at Kitchener from 1910 to 1917. From 1917 on he worked in private practice as a consulting engineer and Ontario Land Surveyor. He was Engineer for Waterloo County, as well as for the towns of Hespeler, Preston, Elmira and New Hamburg, and for the Townships of Waterloo and Wilmot. He was appointed as a member of the Kitchener Road Commission and Kitchener Planning Board. He was an active member of King Street Baptist Church in Kitchener.

Mr. Johnston married Ellen Agnes Clarke, and their children were Ruch (sic) A. Trinier, Alethea M., and Herbert Paul. Herbert Johnston died in Kitchener on June 13th, 1961.

John A. Johnston (fl. ca. 1900) was a land surveyor and mining engineer in Ontario.

He was an engineering graduate from the School of Practical Science at the University of Toronto.

Johnston worked as an Ontario land surveyor and was a mining engineer at Helen Rock Iron Mine in Michipicoten, Ontario and at Jasper, Wyoming.

Mary Johnston, an elementary public school teacher and principal in Waterloo, Ontario, had a dedicated and influential career as an educator. A graduate of Stratford Teacher's College, she received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Western Ontario, and B.Ed. and M.Ed. Degrees from the University of Toronto. Johnston began her teaching career at a rural one room school near Waterloo, and went on to become vice-principal and then principal at several public schools in the Waterloo Region District School Board. She retired in 1987. Johnston was an active member of local board and provincial committees. She was a member of the Ontario Teachers' Federation advisory committee to circular 14 and worked as Regional Professional Development Chairwoman for the midwestern region of the Ministry of Education from 1974-1976. She was also actively involved in church and community activities. Johnston has received several awards for teaching excellence, including the Diamond Jubilee Award from the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association and the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario in 1978. (Source : Materials in GA 118 Mary Johnston fonds.)

Richard Johnston (1946- ) is a college president, former member of the provincial parliament, social activist and active member of the New Democratic Party. He was educated at Trent University and represented Scarborough West (New Democratic Party) from 1979 to 1990. He has been a member of Trent University Board of Governors and Chair of the Ontario Council of Regents. He is currently President of Centennial College.

Robert Johnston (1827-1900) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. He was born in Cavan Township, Ontario of a Presbyterian family. In 1855 he married Mary Jane Bowles of Monaghan Township. With his wife he joined the Methodist New Connexion Church. He was ordained in 1871 and served various charges in Ontario. He retired in 1888 and moved to Bethany.

T. D. Johnston was the owner of a scrapbook compiled by T. Eversfield which contains newspaper clippings on various issues of interest relating to Ontario, Canada. The articles are dated from 1923 to 1924.

William C. Johnston was educated at the University of Waterloo where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1979 and a Masters of Arts degree in 1982. He became an historian with the Directorate of History and Heritage, Dept. of National Defence in 1982. Mr. Johnson was responsible for the Policy and Maritime Air sections of the third volume of official history of the Royal Canadian Air Force and contributed to the second volume of the official history of the Royal Canadian Navy. He is the author of A War of Patrols. The Canadian Army in Korea, 1950-1953 and is currently principle author of the first volume of the official history of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Letitia Matchett Johnstone, kept an autograph book in which several of her friends and family members inscribed messages.