ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
     
    
   
   
    
     This project is part of a much larger study that has been on-going since 1996, and in that time a 
     
     large number of people have provided assistance. I am first of all grateful to Professor Gerry 
     
     McKenna, then Dean of Science at the University of Ulster, for enabling me to take six months 
     
     sabbatical from the University in 1996 so that I could pursue my research into the history of the 
     
     forests of Prince Edward Island. I am also grateful to the P.E.I. Forestry Division for support, and 
     
     Bill Glen in particular, who has encouraged the project throughout and has long awaited the results. 
     
     I also thank Harry Baglole of the Institute of Island Studies of the University of Prince Edward Island 
     
     for arranging the research associateship that has enabled me to use the library facilities of the 
     
     University. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I am grateful to the following institutions for allowing me access to their archives and collections, 
     
     and especially to their staff for providing helpful and courteous assistance: the Centre d’Etudes 
     
     Acadiennes at the University of Moncton, the Robertson Library (and especially the Prince Edward 
     
     Island Collection), the P.E.I. Public Archives and Records Office in Charlottetown, and the 
     
     Miscouche Museum. I also thank the staff of the library at my own University of Ulster for 
     
     organising interlibrary loans, as well as the Queen’s University of Belfast for the use of material from 
     
     its Canadian collection. I thank the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa for providing inter-library 
     
     loans of microfilm copies of archival material. 
     
    
   
   
    
     For help in deciphering and translating the original French documents I am especially grateful to 
     
     Arlette Bataillé, a colleague and friend at the University of Ulster, who to my good fortune is a 
     
     native of south-west France, and also to Georges Arsenault, historian and friend, who read a draft 
     
     copy of a number of the extracts and as a result helped me avoid some errors in translation, and 
     
     who also helped with numerous other queries that I had, including carrying out a survey of the tree 
     
     names in current use in Acadian French on the Island. I also thank my friend Gilbert Hughes for 
     
     assisting with the archival search at the Centre d’Etudes Acadiennes at Moncton. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I thank Island historian Earle Lockerby for reading and commenting on a draft of Appendix 3, as well 
     
     as providing invaluable guidance in the search for the originals of some of the documents; Dr. 
     
     Edward MacDonald of the University of Prince Edward Island for also reading and commenting on a 
     
     draft of Appendix 3 (when it was being prepared as an article for The Island Magazine); Boyde 
     
     Becke, editor of the Magazine, for further advice on the article in his capacity as editor; and Ken 
     
    
   
   
    
     Donovan of Parks Canada Louisbourg for providing illustrations and information relating to Appendix 
     
     3 for the Magazine article.