by Aileen Sibbald pg 241 Big Hill Country 1977
Mr. and Mrs. James Johnstone came to Cochrane from California in 1884. They were originally from Ontario and were born around the Lake Simcoe area. They had four daughters: Margaret (Maggie), Janet (Jennie), Georgina and Edna. Margaret married Ike Foster and lived in Vancouver. They had four children: Lee, Ira, Edna and Aubrey. Janet married Frank Sibbald of Cochrane; they had three children: Wilfred, Clarence and Aileen. Georgina never married; she lived in California.
Edna married Dick Journey and they had three children: one boy, Nobel, and two girls, Edna Mae and Fern. The Journeys lived in California. Mr. Johnstone had a store and post office in Cochrane for awhile. In 1896 they purchased the SE¼ 12-28-4-5 from James Thompson. They sold the land to Angus McDonald in 1903, and went back to California. The Johnstones once owned property where Los Angeles is now situated.
