ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

O the following persons 1- gratefully

acknowledge my indebtedness for

advice, criticism, and material: Mr. Bramwell Chandler, Superintendent of the Prince Edward Island Libraries; Professor J. H. Blanchard,of Prince of Wales College; Mr. A. J. Matheson, O’Leary; Missjean Gill, of the Charlottetown Library; Dr. Alfred Larsen,of the University of Wisconsin.

I am also indebted to the Yale University Press for permission to quote from D. C. Harvey: The French Régime in Prince Edward Island; and to the Frederick A. Stokes Com- pany for liberty to quote from Quinn’s Beautiful Canada.

H. J. C.