George Johnson was a Canadian statistician. He was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in 1837. For some years he was the Editor of The Halifax Reporter and was subsequently the Ottawa correspondent for the The Toronto Mail. From 1891 to 1904 he was the Dominion Statistician. He also edited the Canada Year Book from 1886 to 1904. He was the author of a number of works, including The Handbook of Canada and Alphabet of First Things in Canada. He was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and died in 1911.[1][2][3][4]
References
edit- ^ "George Johnson fonds".
- ^ "Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada".
- ^ Worton, David A. (1998). Dominion Bureau of Statistics : A History of Canada's Central Statistical Office and Its Antecedents, 1841-1972. Montreal and Kingston: The Institute of Public Administration in Canada / McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 409.
- ^ Prévost, Jean-Guy (9 June 2020). "Past, present and future of Canadian statistics". Statistical Journal of the IAOS (International Association for Official Statistics). 36 (2): 355–363. doi:10.3233/SJI-190601. ISSN 1875-9254. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
External links
edit- George Johnson
- Alphabet of First Things in Canada
- Canada's Northern Fringe
- Crime in Canada
- The Dominion Statistician on Mr. Wiman's Panacea
- Place-Names of Canada
- Johnson's Graphic Statistics of Canada
- Canada: Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources
- Canada's First Baby Boy
- George Johnson Papers