Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783–1933

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Many archives, libraries, institutions, and people have helped make this study possible. To the University of Wisconsin College Sea Grant Program , I am especially indebted for the research funding in the 1970s that introduced me to the possibilities for research on the Great Lakes fisheries . Later the University of Wisconsin's sabbatical program and the Graduate School's grant of.salary support and travel funds enabled me to gather widely scattered archival materials in order to lay a foundation for this study. To the staffs of the National Archives of the United States and the National Archives of Canada, I am especially grateful for assistance in locating relevant collections of documents essential for this study. lowe a special thanks to the archivists and librarians of the Minnesota Historical Society, the Minnesota State Archives, the State Historical Society ofWisconsin , the Michigan State Archives, the Michigan State Library, the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, the Chicago Historical Society, the Milwaukee County Historical Society, the Baker Library at the Harvard University Graduate School of 'Business Administration, the J. J. Talman Regional Collection of the D. B. Weldon Library at the University of Western Ontario , the Green and Law Libraries at Stanford University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries, especially Steenbock Memorial, Geography, Map and Air Photo, Biology, Memorial, Law, and Health Sciences. Among the people who proved outstandingly helpful were the group in Bayfield, Wisconsin, including Nancy Reiten Bainbridge, Marjorie Benton , Richard Bodin, Eleanor Knight, and Sheree Peterson, who in the early 1990s shared their knowledge of fisheries history. I am especially grateful to David L. Snyder, former historian at the Apostle Islands NaXVll Acknowledgments tional Lakeshore, who made extraordinary efforts to facilitate research in the Apostle Islands historical records and to identify contacts in the community. Norman W. Larson of Cornucopia, Wisconsin, generously supplied leads to source materials he found while studying the Cornucopia fishing business. Isco Valli, director of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum , strongly supported this research effort and helped broaden and deepen my understanding by naming me as a consultant to the museum's projects on Great Lakes maritime history generally and the commercial fisheries specifically. Others who lent exceptional help to the project over an extended period of time are Loraine Adkins, Ellen Burke, John Peters, and Donna Sereda, of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and the late Kathy Jones, my able staff assistant at the University of Wisconsin for a quarter century. Trish Canaday, Thomas R. Huffman, and Mark Marlaire contributed significantly to search tasks. To the many staff members of the environmental agencies of Canadian, United States, and state governments , I am indebted for their interest and helpful recommendations about sources of information. Special thanks are due to Jan Lindquist of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, to Dr. John M. Casselman of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and to William Horn, Larry Lynch, and Karl Scheidegger of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Among the members of a very supportive University of Wisconsin College Sea Grant Program, I am much indebted to Mary Lou Reeb and Robert A. Ragotzkie. Credit for the excellence of the maps goes to two people especially: Onno Brouwer and Juliet Landa of the Cartographic Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison. For moral and scholarly support, I am grateful to Allan G. Bogue, Jane T. Schulenburg, and Michael Conzen. For his dedication to rigorous, intensive, and meticulous research in new fields of study, the late Paul W. Gates, who directed my doctoral work at Cornell University long ago, remains an inspiration. Two young scholars who critically read the manuscript for the University of Wisconsin Press, Kurkpatrick Dorsey of the University of New Hampshire and Stephen Bocking of Trent University , have helped immeasurably with their suggestions for change and improvement. Historians who venture into the unfamiliar territory of other disciplines need help. Lee T. Kernen, retired director of Wisconsin fisheries for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, helped me by critiquing the manuscript and making many valuable suggestions. Particularly do I wish to express my gratitude to a good friend, the late Louise Wyatt, who delighted in fielding numerous questions about this manuscript through her diligent research in the library in London, XVlll Acknowledgments Ontario, and who followed the Canadian press for reports on the status of the Great Lakes fisheries in Canada and forwarded the clippings. Mary Elizabeth Braun, formerly acquisitions editor at the University of Wisconsin Press, through...