Charles Johnston ‘49

Dr. Charles Johnston is a 1949 Humanities graduate of McMaster University, and he is a Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University. From 1965 to 1970, he was a member of the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario. He is the author of a two volume history of McMaster University and E.C. Drury: Agrarian Idealist for which he received the Floyd Chalmers Award. In 1989, Charles Johnston was given the Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award by McMaster University. Since his retirement he has co–authored with James G. Greenlee ‘68 Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, and researched McMaster University’s World War II Honour Roll. In 2009 he was nominated by the Alumni Association for an Ontario Senior Achievement Award for “Keeping History Alive,” which he won.