Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography

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xiii Acknowledgements A major portion of the research would have remained a pie in the sky if it were not for the nearly seventy interview participants who offered me a portion of their very busy schedules. I cannot mention most of their names in light of the anonymity they were entitled to in this research, but they may recognize their story. Foremost among those I wish to recognize are Dr. Eva Siekierska, the first Chair of the Commission of Gender and Cartography of the International Cartographic Association; Dr. Monica Rieger of the University of Calgary; Dr. Susan Nichols of the University of New Brunswick; and Dr. Suzan Ilcan of the University of Windsor. Dr. Janice Monk has been an unfailing guide and help in my work. I should especially mention Dr. Alberta Auringer Wood (formerly at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador), whose support for my research has been unfailing, uncompromising , and untiring throughout all fifteen years of my research and writing. I should not omit mentioning Dr. Cliff Wood, the gentle scholarly giant in cartography. I owe a particular debt to Dr. John McLaughlin, President Emeritus of the University of New Brunswick; Ms. Alice Hudson at the New York Public Library; Ms. Joanne M. Perry of the University of Pennsylvania; Ms. Mary Ritzlin of Ritzlin Maps; Ms. Elizabeth Hamilton of the University of New ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiv Brunswick; and Dr. Judith Tyner of California State University–Long Beach. I owe a special debt to all those who wished to have their stories included in this book; some have agreed to be openly acknowledged as pioneers in the field and have thus contributed much to their own story. I must also acknowledge the two anonymous reviewers of a very early draft of the book (2003) who so diligently and constructively offered important critiques. The current version of the book is, I hope, a dramatic revision of that early draft. Ms. Samara Young, an undergraduate at St. Thomas University, was instrumental in pulling together the relevant sources of information for the score of women cartographers profiled in Map Worlds. She possesses that unique combination of intelligence, a practical talent for finding new information, and an enthusiasm and conviction that the work can be done in a compelled and compelling time. I thank her in particular for helping me with the research. Ms. Gill Steeves, also a student at St. Thomas University, also provided assistance, especially in relation to her discovery of Mina Hubbard, the accidental cartographer of Labrador. Along the way, research projects have a habit of drawing in students: Ms. Natt Foster (who became a Ph.D. student in sociology at McGill), Dr. Mele Rakai (formerly a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at the University of New Brunswick), Ms. Lenora Sleep, Dr. Dawne Clarke, Dr. Linda Caissie, Mr. Truls Christian Waage, and Ms. Linda Hanford. I am also grateful to Dr. Margriet Hoogvliet , Dr. Ute Dymon, the staff of the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences in Enschede (Netherlands), Ms. Joanne Schweik, Ms. Wendy Straight, Dr. Harry Steward, Mr. Patrik Ottoson, Mr. Hartmann, Mr. Ian Fussey, Mr. Frank Blakeway, Ms. Valerie Shoffey, Ms. Susan Pugh, Mr. Jake Kean, Ms. Grace Farrell, Mr. Dave Doyle, Dr. Barbara Buttenfield , Dr. Roger Wheaton, Dr. Anne Furlong, Mr. Jeffrey Bursey, Dr. Valerie Traub, Dr. Wladyslaw Cichocki, Ms. A. Suzanne Hill, Ms. Joanne Costello, Mr. Michael Meade, and Mr. Samandar Hajizadeh. I also wish to acknowledge the help of the Canadian Department of National Defence in Ottawa for providing information on handkerchief maps. I should not forget the help I received from Dr. Ewen A. Whitaker of Arizona, who was deeply involved in the matter of lunar nomenclature and who brought to my attention the name of an additional woman cartographer. Ms. Lisa Quinn, Acquisitions Editor at Wilfrid Laurier University Press, has been as helpful and encouraging as anyone can dream about. Mr. Doug Hildebrand at University of Toronto Press helped move the manuscript to the next stage of its development. I owe both of them deep thanks. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded in April 1997 a grant (no. 410-97-0219) in support of this program of research, to which I am deeply indebted. I also received a grant from the University of New Brunswick Retirees Research Fund. Throughout the process , the University of New Brunswick Research Ethics...