George Johnson (statistician)

For other people with the same name, see George Johnson.

George Johnson (1837–1911) was a Canadian statistician. He was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in 1837. For some years he was the Editor of The Halifax Reporter and was subsequently the Ottawa correspondent for The Toronto Mail. From 1891 to 1904 he was the Dominion Statistician. He also edited the Canada Year Book from 1886 to 1904. He was the author of a number of works, including The Handbook of Canada and Alphabet of First Things in Canada. He was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and died in 1911.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ "George Johnson fonds". November 25, 2016.
  2. ^ "Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada".
  3. ^ Worton, David A. (1998). Dominion Bureau of Statistics : A History of Canada's Central Statistical Office and Its Antecedents, 1841-1972. Montreal and Kingston: The Institute of Public Administration in Canada / McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 409.
  4. ^ Prévost, Jean-Guy (June 9, 2020). "Past, present and future of Canadian statistics". Statistical Journal of the IAOS. 36 (2): 355–363. doi:10.3233/SJI-190601. ISSN 1875-9254. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
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