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Note, 20 December 1968
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Alice Elisabeth Johannsen was born in 1911 in Havana, Cuba. She was the daughter of a well-known cross country skier Herman-Smith (Jackrabbit) Johanssen. Educated at McGill University, she earned a B.Sc. with Honours in 1934. In 1935 she was a graduate apprentice, specializing in Outdoor Nature Education in Newark Museum in New Jersey. From 1936 to 1939 Alice Johannsen held Carnegie Fellowship in Museum Training at the Nation Gallery of Canada. In 1962 she was granted a diploma from Canadian Museums Association, of which she was also a Fellow. She was granted an LL.D. from St. Thomas University in New Brunswick in 1975. Alice Johannsen died at Piedmont in 1992.
Letter from Alice E. Johannsen.
Note indicating that Alice Johannsen borrowed “Memoirs of Sir William Dawson and Lady Dawson by Mrs. Winslow-Spragge.”