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Acknowledgments I am grateful to Neil Sutherland and Jean Barman for their helpful suggestions and sage advice, to Linda Hale for her encouragement, and to Joyce McLean and Sharon Olding for their close reading of the letters. I also thank Margaret Whitehead and Jacqueline Gresko for their helpful comments and criticisms of the Introduction and the organization of the letters. A most sincere thank you to my husband Rolland Lewis for his help and patience with this project, and to Sandra Woolfrey for her encouragement and direction. Thanks to the Delta Museum and Archives, The Glenbow Archives, The Provincial Archives of Manitoba, the Saskatchewan Archives Board, and the West Kootenay Power Archives for permission to reproduce photographs in this book. This manuscript is the result of research conducted as part of the Canadian Childhood History Project, University of British Columbia, funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. xv ...

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