John Winson was a Justice of the Peace, Police Magistrate, Chairman of the Fraser Valley Regional Library, amateur botanist and journalist for the Vancouver Province, for which he wrote under the pseudonym "Wildwood".
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Title based on the contents of the fonds.
The fonds consists of Winson's correspondence, a personal reminiscence of Winson by his wife (Ethel Leaf Winson), and another memoir entitled "From Small Beginnings," together with a historical account of Lady Tweedsmuir's visit to Abbotsford in 1939. In addition, there are other brief manuscript memoirs by Mrs. Winson, clippings of J.W. Winson's journalistic articles (some relating to A.W. Findlay), miscellaneous clippings, documents confirming Winson's various appointments and the copyright to Wildwood Trails.