ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO the following persons I 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 ; Miss Jean 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 Regime in Prince Edward Island ; and to the Frederick A. Stokes Com¬ pany for liberty to quote from Quinn's Beautiful Canada . H. J. C.