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 When his son Art was old enough, Johns included him in his company, Johnnie Johns & Son. The business had about forty horses, plus trucks, boats, and camping and riding equipment. His brochure guaranteed clients good food, good trophies, and a good time. In the 1930s, Johns took out as many as seventeen hunters at a time and was charging a hundred dollars a day per hunter. His expenses were high. He earned and gave away fortunes, but for him the job was more about lifestyle than money.((Dianne Green, “Johnnie Johns.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 28 May 2021 [reprint].))\\ When his son Art was old enough, Johns included him in his company, Johnnie Johns & Son. The business had about forty horses, plus trucks, boats, and camping and riding equipment. His brochure guaranteed clients good food, good trophies, and a good time. In the 1930s, Johns took out as many as seventeen hunters at a time and was charging a hundred dollars a day per hunter. His expenses were high. He earned and gave away fortunes, but for him the job was more about lifestyle than money.((Dianne Green, “Johnnie Johns.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 28 May 2021 [reprint].))\\
   
-Johns and Gladys Roberts married, and they had daughter Ada Johns.((Craig Mishler and William E. Simone. //Han Hwech'in: people of the river.//  University of Alaska Press. 2004: 257.)) Ada (Haskins) spoke Tlingit when she was growing up as she could speak with her grandmother Maria and aunt Angela (Sidney) when she was not at residential school in Carcross. When she told her father about some of the practices at school he wrote a letter, and she left school.(("Tlingit literacy workshop draws on elder's knowledge," //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 19 March 2001.))\\+Johns and Gladys Roberts married, and they had daughter Ada Johns.((Craig Mishler and William E. Simone. //Han Hwech'in: people of the river.//  University of Alaska Press. 2004: 257.)) Ada (Haskins) spoke Tlingit when she was growing up as she could speak with her grandmother Maria and aunt Angela (Sidney) when she was not at residential school in Carcross. When she told her father about some of the practices at school he wrote a letter, and she left school.(("Tlingit literacy workshop draws on elder's knowledge," //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 19 March 2001.))  Johnnie enfranchised to keep his children out of residential school and in order to get his outfitters license. He was a founding member of YANSI and served on the executive for many of the early years. He regained his Indian Status in the last years of his life.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 221.))
   
 During the construction of the Alaska Highway Johnnie and his brother Peter Johns were hired to use their horses and guide the soldiers from Tagish to Watson Lake. They consulted George Sidney, from the Teslin area, as he often travelled by dog team from Teslin to Tagish and Carcross to buy groceries before they had a store in Teslin.((Helene Dobrowolsky interviewed Ida Calmegane in 1991 for the Alaska Highway Interpretive Milepost Project. Heritage Branch files 4057-5-8 II.))\\ During the construction of the Alaska Highway Johnnie and his brother Peter Johns were hired to use their horses and guide the soldiers from Tagish to Watson Lake. They consulted George Sidney, from the Teslin area, as he often travelled by dog team from Teslin to Tagish and Carcross to buy groceries before they had a store in Teslin.((Helene Dobrowolsky interviewed Ida Calmegane in 1991 for the Alaska Highway Interpretive Milepost Project. Heritage Branch files 4057-5-8 II.))\\
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