Arnold Johnson settled with his family at Rolla; he spent some working the coast in the gold mines at Bridge River and also riding the freights as far as Los Angeles. In the fall of 1940, he married and moved to Bonanza to a log shack on his father’s homestead. In 1941 he had an opportunity to buy a half section of land but was called into the army and could not look after it. He farmed in the summer and worked at Gordon Moore’s planer mill in the winter. Later he drove a three-ton truck hauling airplane gas and asphalt through the bush to Fort Nelson on the old Tote Road. He started his career in the army on January 29th, 1943 and was discharged on September 23rd, 1945. He faced some challenging years on the farm during the 1950s. He found the 1960s on the farm to be generally pretty good. On January 3rd, 1969 he sold the farm and machinery to William Molson from Indiana and moved to Dawson Creek, BC. He went on to work for the P.F.A.A. for a couple of years and then worked in real estate.
- Homesteaders’ Heritage, 1982, Published by Fellow Pioneers Historical Society, p. 240, 241.