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Acknowledgments l I am grateful to Wilfrid Laurier University Press and SSHRC for the confidence they have shown in this book and for their assistance, both financial and technical, in bringing it to publication. I wish to thank my professors at McMaster University, Drs. Carl Ballstadt, Lorraine York, John Ferns, and Richard Morton, for their guidance in bringing this work to its former incarnation , the PhD thesis stage. I am grateful to my family for their love and encouragement throughout the extended period of this writing: my husband, John Anderson (now deceased), for his inspiration, encouragement, and support ; my son Mark James Anderson, for his technical mind and hands and perceptive ear; and my daughter Janelle Mary Baldwin, for her scholarly mind and keen eye. I am also grateful for three beautiful and intelligent grandchildren who have shown an enthusiastic interest in my writing and research. My good friend Beverley Everest has provided her usual ready ear and incisive mind to support and challenge me in my life and work. The former curator at Whitehern Museum, Ania Latoszek, and the present curator, Ken Heaman, as well as their busy staff, have been very cooperative in opening the archive to this project, and I give a further thanks to Georgina Minnes at Whitehern who “gave me the facts.” I am also grateful to Mrs. Falladown and the staff at the MacNab Street Presbyterian Church for the use of their archives. I should also like to acknowledge my Salon group for their creative influence: Janelle Baldwin, Pamela Doidge, Tara Gammon, Eleanore Kosydar, and Sheila Russell, with a special thanks to Sheila for her professional and discerning eye and assistance with the editing. Finally, to Pat Kirkley, my computer wizard, who kept my “windows” and “desktop” in order. xvii ...

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