[4] In recognition of his body of work on that national historic site of Canada, the Government of France made Johnston a chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes académiques.
[9] Some of those exhibits have been at (or currently still are at) the Nova Scotia Museum, the Colchester Historeum, Musée des Acadiens des Pubnicos, Yarmouth County Museum, the Black Cultural Centre, and the aforementioned travelling exhibit entitled N'in na L'nu: The Mi'kmaq of Prince Edward Island.
It's about a 1960s rock 'n roll band that was based in Truro, Nova Scotia and was widely popular across the Maritimes.
After The Lincolns and a Toronto-based band called Soma, MacKay would go on to have a celebrated career as a stage actor as well.
[20] In November 2020, Johnston collaborated with Tom Ryan and Costas Halavrezos to create a 5-minute micro-documentary about The Lincolns.
The video—Kings of Friday Night: The Lincolns—was posted on YouTube[21] Johnston's research archives are deposited at the Beaton Institute of the Cape Breton University.
[22] In February and March 2017, Johnston was Writer-in-Residence at Wolff Cottage (the Center for the Writing Arts) in Fairhope, Alabama.