Person Record

Metadata

Name

Johnson, Muriel

Othernames

neé Muriel Lorene Snider

Places of residence

Sydenham Township, Grey County
Owen Sound
Thornbury (retirement home)

Father

Lorne Snider

Nationality

Canadian

Notes

Muriel's grandfather was Wellington Snider of Sydenham Township. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Snider. Muriel worked at the County of Grey-Owen Sound Museum for some years prior to her retirement, and was very keen about geneaology. When she was a young woman, she had worked in Owen Sound at a chicken hatchery.

Muriel and Wilson Johnson married in 1945. Following their honeymoon, Muriel and Wilson Johnson resided at the groom's farm at Balaclava and on April 1, 1946 they moved to the Norman McKee farm near Bothwell's Corner, which they had purchased in 1945. They farmed in Sydenham Township for some time, before retiring to Owen Sound, Grey County.

Muriel was an active Women's Institute member. There is a 1965 image of her being shown by Mrs. Agnew how to bind post-bound books at a W. I. workshop.

In 1987, Muriel Johnson was posed with the other members of the Bothwell's Corner Women's Institute in an image taken at their 50th Anniversary Tea.

Muriel was very proud of her involvement with the Sydenham Township history book of 1967.

Occupation

Museum Employee / Local Historian
Homemaker
Sydenham Township Centennial Committee (1967)
Bothwell's Corner W.I. (Women's Institute Member)

Publications

HISTORY OF SYDENHAM TOWNSHIP, 1967
HISTORY OF SYDENHAM TOWNSHIP Volume 2, see p. 134 (1987 group image of the Bothwell's W.I. tea)
Ambrose, Linda M., FOR HOME AND COUNTRY: THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE WOMEN'[S INSTITUTES IN ONTARIO, 1996, p. 173 (image of Muriel Johnson in 1965)