Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Lillian J. Wonders Lillian Paradise Johnson Wonders (1925-2023), was born on April 20, 1925 in Portland, Oregon, the eldest of three daughters to Juliette Martin Omohundro (1896-1991) and Franklin Paradise Johnson (1888-1943). Lillian Wonders attended St. Helen's Hall in Portland, Oregon, and upon graduation pursued post-secondary education at Oregon State College (Corvallis, Oregon) and the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington), obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Geography in 1946. Wonders then attended Syracuse University to study medical geography where she wrote her thesis on "Geographical Aspects of Schistosoma mansoni in Puerto Rico. Wonders career included teaching geography and cartography at the University of Washington (1948); cartographer with the Map Division of the United Nations Secretariat (1949-1951); lecturer in cartography in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto; and as a freelance cartographer. Her publications, and contributions, include: Looking at Maps (1960), Land, Water, and People (1961), Dent's Historical and Geographical Atlas (1958), Atlas of Alberta (1969), Junior Atlas of Alberta (1979), the Canadian Encyclopedia (1985), Geographica, the Complete Illustrated Atlas of Canada and the World (1998). Wonders first learned letterpress printing at age twelve from her father, when he purchased a Chandler and Price Press and founded the Johnson & Co. press in Portland in 1934. Wonders continued printing on the family's small platen press and 1890 Chandler and Price Press throughout her career as a cartographer, and founded Wonder Press in 1965 while living in Edmonton. Lillian Wonders married her husband William C. Wonders (a Canadian geographer with a map collection named after him), on June 2, 1951. Abridged from : University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.
![Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Lillian J. Wonders
Map by Lillian J. Wonders and Kim Davis
Title: Alberta Writers' Guild [literary map]
Published in 1983
Citation: Wonders, Lillian, Davis, Kim. (1983). Alberta Writers' Guild [literary map]. Alberta Writers' Guild.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreiaaezncvwkp7uqedpi2zui6uawpyxx5tzz7bjxyuizzkoxftpeqpi)
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Lillian J. Wonders Map by Lillian J. Wonders and Kim Davis Title: Alberta Writers' Guild [literary map] Published in 1983 Citation: Wonders, Lillian, Davis, Kim. (1983). Alberta Writers' Guild [literary map]. Alberta Writers' Guild.
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Lillian J. Wonders Picture of two maps that appeared in the following books: Luxton, E. G. (1975). Banff: Canada’s first national park. A history and a memory of Rocky Mountains Park. Summerthought. Lister, R. (1979). The birds and birders of Beaverhills Lake. Edmonton Bird Club.
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Lillian J. Wonders Cover and three plates - Communities - Looking at Canada - Albertans From: Alberta Education. (1979). Junior atlas of Alberta : our place on earth and how we live. Curriculum Branch, Alberta Education. Item has not been digitized.
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
Lillian J. Wonders Cartographer, geographer, teacher and founder of "Wonder Press". For more info/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3
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