W.H. (Wade) Johnson

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About W.H. (Wade) Johnson

Wade Harold Johnson is a Canadian Novelist and author. He began writing fiction as a full time avocation in 2015 when he was 61. He had retired from a 35 year career as an IT professional and began the pursuit of a lifelong passion.

Wade is a husband, father, grandfather, brother, cousin, uncle, and used to be a son, nephew and grandson. His interests are science, technology, golf and mostly family. He is an amateur genealogist with a deep interest in the history of his ancestors. He is a descendant of Icelandic, Chinese, French Canadian, Indigenous people, and others, with a pair of great great great great grandmothers native to Canada, one a Swampy Cree, the other a Montagnais.

He lives in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada with his wife Wendolyn.

Titles by Wade Harold Johnson include:

Gillet of Azincourt

Agnes of Meaux

The Fourteen

No Lesser Persons

The Man With No Hat and other stories

17 Stories: Some long, Some Short.

White: poems and things

The Last King of Iceland

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The Last King of Iceland Nov 1, 2021

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Eight hundred years between their lives. Related by 19 generations of ancestors and descendants blood shared between them. They are different men from different times yet across the bridge of time, they are one.
Jon Magnusson, a ninety-nine year old retired professor of Norse history and 19th great grandson of the renowned Icelandic scholar, historian, and lawmaker, Snorri Sturluson, has found himself spending his final days before his hundredth birthday, confined in ‘The Lodge’. He doesn’t want to be there, he expected to spend the days before he became a centenarian in the house he shared with his loving wife Harriet, now gone ten years. But his son Magnus had not shown for the daily caregiving visitation. He and wife Wilma have been taken suddenly by a faulty furnace, leaving Jon without a caregiver.

Now Jon must contend with the unwelcome Lodge and its cadre of decrepit old timers. He must hang on until his birthday when he crosses the century threshold so he can come into the Singularity. But Jon is an atheist, he has no belief in a God or afterlife. Where did the idea of a Singularity, a return to the origin of the universe, enter his mind? What even is the Singularity.

But there is a problem. The old timers at the Lodge seem to be succumbing to mysterious and untimely demise. A serial killer in their midst perhaps. A nemesis that could prevent Jon from attaining his Singularity. He must find and stop the menace.

In the thirteenth century, Snorri Sturluson shares his life story, from the time he was fostered from his father’s house at four years of age, through his rise of fame and fortune to his assassination in his later life when his power and notoriety had failed him. He was a real man, his story told here true in many senses. He was the 19th great grandfather of Jon Magnusson and thousands of others. He was the subject of hundreds of lectures, copious research and a treatise written by Professor Jon Magnusson about his famous ancestor.

Now, at The Lodge, the residents come to the Sunroom to hear the near centenarian tell the story of Snorri Sturluson. But as he approaches his magic day, Jon is failing. He is desperate to reach his goal and desperate to catch the killer of the elderly before the killer can extinguish Jon before his day. If he can make his birthday without being assassinated, Jon Magnusson can achieve Singularity and truly come to know his ancestor Snorri Sturluson.

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Gillet of Azincourt: Ancestors Book 2 Apr 29, 2019

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“If you have lived upon the earth, whether your name is known to history or not, you are a part of it and your mark is in the world; in the hearts and mind and memories of those that loved you and in legacy for all those that come after. Be you prince or be you pauper, all that matters in life is life, all other glories are vain and soulless.”
-Gob-
Gillet Charron hoped only to keep his village safe from freebooters and highwaymen; he never dreamed to raise his sword against a King. He was no fighter, just a simple cartwright. It was chance that brought him to save his new Lord and it was that spirit that binds men as brothers that brought Gillet and his men of Meaux, The Circle, to stand with their countrymen against a great and ominous foe from across the water.
The battle of Agincourt, or Azincourt as it is known in France, is known amongst the most famous of the ‘Hundred Years War’ between France and England. Ongoing disputes and claims to thrones and territories, made and broke alliances, seeded corruption, plots, assassination and fueled conflicts, both civil and between countries. Agincourt is written in history and though his name does not find its way into records or annals, Gillet Charron, known as Gillet of Azincourt, was a hero to his townsfolk, until all memory of him faded from the generations.

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The Man With No Hat Jun 23, 2018

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Three dozen short stories by Canadian Novelist/Author W.H. (Wade) Johnson. Meet Rose and Albert, Walter the dog, the Rat Slayer, Katz and Quixote, Rocky and Ape and Doug, whose name is really Neb, who comes from the Dark Matter

The Man With No Hat – a man struggling with his demon of alcoholism
When I Grow Up Too – reflections of younger days gone by
Death of An Uncle – a boys first experience with the death of a loved one.
Leo Lung – a homeless man reveals a mystery from long ago
Me and Bobby – a boy talks of his time with a friend
Boy In The Mountain – a seven year old goes missing in the BC Caribou country
Gratitude – a women tells about her neurotic rescue dog
The Road – on a desolate winter highway, a women comes across a body on the road
All of a Sudden – an encounter between a speeding car and a dislodged tire
The String Lady – a women with multiples personalities
The Last King of Iceland – an elderly man relives a life 800 years ago
Dinner With Dick and Jane – the couple from upstairs have a dinner party
The Ronald Stumpf Show – a TV Talk Show host intoxicates his guests
The Grocery Talk – a neighbour might be a reincarnated relative
Friends – a young boy makes an old man be his friend
Rocky and Ape – the adventures of two young friends
The Lollipop Man – a drug dealer sells deadly suckers
The Main – confrontation between a young drug dealer and an upstart
Katz and Quixote – sibling felines share very different lives
My Friend Lenny – a boys summer at the lake and his Down Syndrome friend
Pay Day – Rose and Albert go shopping
Rat Slayer – the tragic life of an exterminator
Sally Monroe – a woman’s secret life is revealed
The Laughing Cat – Albert watches life and death in a box
Song of the Uncaged Bird – a boy, his first gun and lessons in life
Provocative Odors – Walter the dog sees things differently
Shit Soup – it’s not so bad being fat
Testimony of Two Men – a young man and an old man have different points of view
Shoot The Wounded – Detective Sandusky just wants to retire
The Life and Times of Ross Harper – a new friend turns out to be something unexpected
Opposable Thumbs – Walter the dog goes to the cemetery
Rose Porter – an elderly woman can wait no longer
Yard Apes – why are children like that
The Grandfather Bridge – Albert and Albert get time together
Dark Matter – Doug is not what he seems to be

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No Lesser Persons: Ancestors - Book 10 Apr 4, 2018

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Three hundred years before Canada, people of Europe fought each other for the wealth, prosperity and ownership of country that had already been home to the People of the Land for the last ten thousand years.
Pierre Charron and Catherine Pillard needed to escape the lives they were facing in France. He longed for a different life, she for a better one. When the opportunity arose for him to become a colonist in New France, he leapt at the chance, not knowing what kind of life awaited him. She was presented with a once in a lifetime proposition, through a chance encounter with a matron benefactor. Pierre and Catherine met briefly, in an ale house in La Rochelle; something sparked between them and when they met again two years later, on a cold muddy river bank in New France, the spark re-ignited, and they began their life journey together in the new world. They began young and naïve, they faced the hostile Haudenosaunee, insidious bureaucrats, scheming miscreants, plague, poverty and the unforgiving country, but together they grew wise through their struggle to survive and thrive in a harsh land.

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The Fourteen Mar 27, 2018

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Pierre ‘Le Fils’ Charron was seventeen when his father died from a head wound inflicted upon him by the parish priest, Dominick Hugeot. He was seventeen when he was acclaimed to the office of Reeve of his village of Meaux, the position held by his father and his father before him. He was seventeen when he met the humanist scholar and teacher Jacques Lefevre, who now returned to Meaux to lead a group of Catholic scholars, known as The Cenacle, in their own reform in opposition to the rising Protestant Reformation taking hold in Europe.At the same time a movement away from the Catholic church had begun in Meaux, under the leadership of Etienne Mangin and Pierre LeClerc. Their followers were known as the Gospellers. In the beginning the Catholics and Gospellers were friendly toward each other but over time their views grew too far apart and conflict arose. Those who were, in the beginning, friends with The Cenacle became adversaries and ultimately enemies, leading to the tragic events of The Fourteen of Meaux. Le Fils and his son Gilles, became involved in a new church, regarded by the King as a radical terrorist group practicing in extreme heresy. Persecution ensued, and many were rounded up and put on trial. Some set for torture and execution, some given lesser penalties such as flogging, imprisonment and banishment. The Charron’s escaped capture through a serendipitous event and timing but were pursued by the evil inquisitor, Sébastien Michaëlis.On the 7th of October 1546, Gilles Charron witnessed the burning of Etienne Mangin, Pierre LeClerc and twelve others, found guilty of heresy for their actions in the formation of the earliest Reformed Church within France.

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Agnes of Meaux: Ancestors Book 4 Mar 12, 2018

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Even though we are ordinary, sometimes the things we do in our lives change the history of the world, we just don’t realize it at the time.
Agnes was an innocent. A young peasant girl from Meaux, a village of early 16th century France, just a days ride from Paris. She was not special or gifted in anyway. By day she cleaned the Chapter House and the Deanery, in the service of her church. At night she worked at Le Poulet Gras, the ale house where her father and mother scratched out their living. She was a happy girl, in her unassuming innocence, but she fell victim to a common savagery and became the catalyst that sparked a confrontation between Church and its supplicants, between aristocracy and the peasantry, between the rich and poor of Meaux, and added fuel to the fire of reformation that changed the lives of millions that followed.

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17 Stories: Some Long, Some Short: a collection Mar 12, 2018

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Seventeen stories, some long, some short, some told in 1st person some in 3rd, some from the female point of view, some from the male, some from the very young, some from the very old and everything in between.

The Man With No Hat – a man struggling with his demon of alcoholism
Agnes – an adolescent girl in 16th century France becomes the catalyst of a reformation
When I Grow Up Too – reflections of younger days gone by
Death of An Uncle – a boys first experience with the death of a loved one.
The Carriage House – in 16th century France a village leader confronts an abusive priest
Leo Lung – a homeless man reveals a mystery from long ago
Me and Bobby – a boy talks of his time with a friend
Who Killed Guy Bastogne – a boy is found murdered beneath a bridge
Boy In The Mountain – a seven year old goes missing in the BC Caribou country
The Tanner – tribulations in a blended family in 17th century France
Gratitude – a women tells about her neurotic rescue dog
The Road – on a desolate winter highway, a women comes across a body on the road
All of a Sudden – an encounter between a speeding car and a dislodged tire
Judith Martin - in 17th century France, a widow faces humiliation and the wrath of her church
The String Lady – a women with multiples personalities decides she must kill the evil one
The Countess and the Bishop – an aged atheist Countess has it out with a greedy bishop
The Last King of Iceland – an elderly man confined to a nursing home imagines an encounter with an historical figure from 800 years ago

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