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am grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada and the Principal’s Development
fund of Queen’s University for a grant that enabled
me to consult other libraries and hire Sara Jamieson
as a research assistant. Her extraordinary scholarly
skills were a great benefit. I thank the staffs at the
following: Music and Special Collections, Douglas Library,
Queen’s; Map Collection and Reference, Stauffer
Library, Queen’s; the National Library, Ottawa;
and the D.B. Weldon Library, the University of Western
Ontario. D.M.R. Bentley, Arielle Zomer, Kat Evans, and
the other assistants at the Canadian Poetry Press were
helpful at every stage. Like anyone working on Scott,
I am indebted to Robert L. McDougall, Stan Dragland,
Carole Gerson, and Laura Groening. The following individuals
were helpful in many ways: Maria Belanger, Albert Braz,
Brian Diemert, George Henderson, Shelley King, Gerald
Lynch, and John Pierce. Most of all, I am indebted to
my wife, Brenda Reed, still the most helpful librarian
of them all. [Page xii]
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