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Acknowledgments Early in 1988 I entered the Supreme Court of Canada building in Ottawa to seek the advice of the Consultant Curator, DeLloyd Guth, for a research project I then had under way. By the time I emerged several enlightened hours later Professor Guth had recruited me to write an article for a book of thematic essays to be published by the Supreme Court of Canada Historical Society. My contribution was to be a piece of about 30 to 40 pages on the Court’s ‘‘race’’ decisions. It did not seem too daunting a task at the time. As my research progressed it became apparent to me that a single article would not convey the impact of the several important decisions I was uncovering. Fortunately DeLloyd Guth’s project was expanding as well, and we decided that I would write an entire volume for a series he would edit on Supreme Court history. Over the years that followed DeLloyd and I were in frequent contact as I struggled and drafted chapters, and his advice was often decisive in the shaping of the project. But before my volume could appear the series was obliged for financial reasons to discontinue, and I had to find a new publisher. Though he is no longer listed as its editor I am delighted that Professor Guth has been invited to contribute a preface to the present publication, for he has been intimately involved since its inception. In its early stages I believed I could proceed with this project at minimal expense, but travel costs in particular began to mount as I discovered more and more pertinent archival collections that had to be visited, and more surviving participants who should be interviewed. At that crucial moment Judy Young, then Multicultural Program Director in the fed- eral Multicultural Department, lent her assistance so that I was able to obtain a grant to continue with the research in a more appropriately thorough fashion. I am grateful to her and to the Multicultural Department for their essential support. Some of the material that now appears in chapters 3 and 4 had been collected under a previous grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project on ‘‘The Movement for Racial Equality in Postwar Canada,’’ and I am pleased to express my appreciation for that assistance as well. It is not possible to pursue historical research without the professional assistance of archivists and librarians, and I gratefully record my debt to dozens of them from coast to coast in Canada. A few, in my view, went beyond their formal responsibilities to take a personal interest in my project , to discuss my progress and problems in research, to draw my attention to records that I would otherwise have missed, to make me aware of potential subjects for interview. In the National Archives of Canada, Myron Momryk and Lawrence Tapper fell easily into this category, as did Stephen Speisman and Howard Markus in the Ontario Jewish Archives in Toronto and Allan Dunlop in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. In my home library at the University of Waterloo, Diane FitzPatrick and Susan Moskal regularly and generously exceeded their job descriptions in helping me find obscure materials. Permission to conduct research in restricted archival collections was kindly extended by John Brewin, Daniel G. Hill, Kalmen Kaplansky and Walter Tarnopolsky. Constance Backhouse graciously shared some of her own research on topics of our mutual interest. As I have indicated in my Introduction, this project and its resulting publication have been immeasurably enriched by my interviews with people who were directly involved in the stories I was pursuing. I am grateful to them all, and they are warmly acknowledged in my endnotes. Once again it is the case that among my benefactors in this category there were some who offered much more than their reminiscences, providing me with documentation in their personal possession, advice and commentary on the direction of my research, introductions to other participants ; some even read and criticized portions of the manuscript. I am pleased to acknowledge such extraordinary contributions from Vivien Mahood Batke, Carrie Best, Hugh Burnett, Jack Desmond, Stanley G. Grizzle, Donna Hill, Kalmen Kaplansky, Ben Keyfetz, Ted King, Anne and Eddie Packwood and Ted and Marion Richmond. Once I had a manuscript in hand I continued to require professional assistance. As will be immediately apparent to most readers, I am not a xii ‘‘Race,’’ Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada...

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