Typescript letter from Barbara Johnstone on Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources letterhead to Elizabeth Long providing an overview of Johnstone's career ahead of a speaker at the Winnipeg Council of Women's meeting on March 7th, 1962. The letter includes information about Johnstone's upbringing and interest as a young person in the one-sided nature of the Hudson's Bay and North West Company fur trades which led to her being offered the role of Custodian of the Hudson's Bay Museum in Winnipeg. When C.P. Wilson retired in 1958, Johnstone was made Curator of the museum. Johnstone left the museum in 1961 to become the Superintendent of Lower Fort Garry National Historic Park.