About J.K. Johnson J.K. Johnson (1930-2018) was a professor emeritus of history at Carleton University and the author of In Duty Bound: Men, Women, and the State in Upper Canada, 1783-1841. Books by J.K. Johnson In Duty Bound Men, Women, and the State in Upper Canada, 1783-1841 by (author) J.K. Johnson Historical Essays on Upper Canada New Perspectives by (author) Bruce G. Wilson & J.K. Johnson Becoming Prominent Regional Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841 by (author) J.K. Johnson