This fonds consists of numerous notes and correspondence of Evelyn Johnson pertaining to her sister Pauline, to family history and to the affairs of the Six Nations Indian Reserve. There are newspaper clippings dating from 1881 to 1936 on Pauline Johnson and on Indigenous concerns of the time. Poems written by and collected by Pauline Johnson, and correspondence of Pauline Johnson, G.M. Ferguson, Chief G.H.M. Johnson and Allan Johnson are also included.
Johnson, EvelynFile includes several published and typewritten poems and prose by Pauline Johnson, including the following
- Canadian Born, A Patriotic Poem
- A Memorial Ode (draft, 1886)
- The Archers (draft)
- The Songster
- The Cattle Country
- The Foothill Country
- An Unwelcome Visitor
- The Chinook Wind
- The Song my Paddle Sings
- Coaching on the Cariboo Trail
- Heroic Indian Mothers
- The Train Dogs
- When George Was King and Other Poems [signed]
also included are clippings with information about Johnson
File includes poems by others, mostly clipped from the newspaper. Also includes a sheet of poems addressed to Pauline Johnson and signed by Duncan Campbell Scott (1891).