George Henry Martin Johnson


George Henry Martin Johnson was a member of the Wolf clan and selected as a hereditary chief of the Mohawk of the Six Nations in Canada he also served as an official interpreter and informal diplomat between the Mohawk and Canadian governments. His home of Chiefswood, built in 1856 on the Grand River, has been designated and preserved as a National Historic Site it is the only First Nations mansion from the preConfederation era.

Johnson was born at Bow Park on the Grand River on the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation near Brantford in 1816. The Wolf clan members had founded the Reserve after resettling from New York during the American Revolution.

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