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.|. Forests, Fish and Wildlife Division for support, and in particular to former staff member Bill Glen who has encouraged the project throughout.

I also thank Harry Baglole, former director 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, as well as his successor, Irene Novaczek, for supporting the continuance of my associateship.

I am grateful to the Robertson Library of the University of Prince Edward Island for obtaining a copy of the Stilgenbauer thesis for the Prince Edward Island Collection. I also thank the staff of the library at my own University of Ulster for organising interlibrary loans of the Halliday and Rowe papers.

Finally, I wish to express my appreciation to the provincial Department of Environment, Energy and

Forestry, and especially Kate MacQuarrie, the Director of Forests, Fish and Wildlife, for supporting the publication of this research.