Victoire Cater

From 'The Chaplin and Skinner Families' page 22:

Mrs Johnson recently [1899] died at an advanced age, leaving numerous descendants settled in Nova Scotia.


Facing page 22 [in Ann Mendell's copy of the Chaplin and Skinner family book]:

From the Daily News, 1903

BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLY.

Ottawa, Sept 22.
Mr George Johnson, the Dominion statistician. in a letter to the "Citizen," in reply to strictures which have been made against Canada as an inadequate source for the food supply of Great Britain, says that the average yearly export of Canadian wheat to Britain for the past six years was 24,000,000 bushels, not 6,000,000. He declares that out of a wheat crop of 97,000,000 bushels last year, Canada exported 37,000,000 bushels, and used for seed 8,000,000 bushels, leaving 52,000,000 in the country, of which nearly 20,000,000 were used for feeding animals.

Mr Johnson adds: "Give us the price and we shall give the wheat. We would rather feed wheat to men, but if we cannot get the price we must feed to hogs." - Reuters


To which are attached in manuscript the following notes:
Mr George Johnson is son of Rev G Johnson
Mrs Huest is a daughter of Victoire Johnson, Halifax authoress. Annie Campbell Huest is a grandchild of Mrs Victoire Johnson (1st cousin of Mrs M A Chaplin) in England Sept 1905.

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