Depicting Canada’s Children

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

xiii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I was fortunate throughout this project to receive support from a large number of individuals and organizations. A special thanks is owed to Cynthia Comacchio,series editor of Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada,for encouraging me to be editor of this book. My sincere gratitude goes to the authors who have contributed to the publication. I also want to thank Annmarie Adams, Kristina Huneault, and Martha Langford, who as members of the editorial board helped to develop the content of this anthology. I am especially indebted to Martha Langford, whose support and advice guided this publication at each stage to completion. Graduate students in the master’s program in the Department of Art History, Concordia University, merit special recognition. Suzanne Rackover assisted in the research, Alena Buis in the preparation of the manuscript. I would like to express my appreciation to Victoria Dickenson, executive director of the McCord Museum, who invited me to curate the exhibition Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood / Salut les filles ! La jeune fille en images at the McCord Museum of Canadian History. This exhibition and the accompanying symposium precipitated the call for papers for this book. I also wish to stress the valuable assistance provided by Lisa Quinn, acquisitions editor of Wilfrid Laurier University Press, who has played a crucial role in supporting this publication, and more recently, Rob Kohlmeier, managing editor, whose excellent supervision facilitated the editorial process. This book would not have been possible without the contribution of the various agencies and institutions that have provided funding: the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Canada Council for the Arts for publishing programs, and Concordia University. This page intentionally left blank ...