Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) and the University of Toronto Libraries for supporting the development of the Don Valley Historical Mapping Project. Thanks to Helen Mills and the late Terry McAuliffe of Lost Rivers for sharing research on points of interest throughout the valley. For her careful work and attention to detail, thanks to Jordan Hale. We are grateful to Derek Hayes and the Toronto Public Library for access to their collection of map images. This book benefitted from the thoughtful feedback of two anonymous reviewers, and from the guidance and support of series editor Alan MacEachern. We also wish to thank Ruth Sandwell and Bill Turkel for their encouragement and continued support, without which this book would not have been possible. Bonnell acknowledges the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council during her research on the history of Toronto’s Don River Valley. We are indebted to Scott McKinnon and Anne Fortin for their patience and support as this project developed.

The authors of Chapter 1 would like to thank Shannon Lucy, Kate Martin, Tylor Richards, Jenifer Sguigna, Kathleen Traynor, and Kevin Van Lierop for their invaluable assistance in conducting and presenting this research. 

Daniel Macfarlane would like to thank his co-authors (particularly Jim Clifford for his tutelage) for their help, the co-editors of this volume for their insights and patience, and the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) for support. Colleen Beard wishes to acknowledge the assistance of several people in developing the Welland Canals Google Earth project: Sharon Janzen for her Google Earth Pro technical expertise; Brock University Geography internship students and Map Library staff who assisted with digitizing collections, creating map overlays, and adding content; and Brock University Communications Department staff, who assisted with editing audio recordings. Photographs for this portion of Chapter 2 were obtained from Brock University Special Collections and Archives, Niagara Falls Public Library, and several personal collections.

As Stephen Bocking and Barbara Znamirowski discovered, a paper that discusses an HGIS project can only ever represent a fraction of the work involved in such a project. They wish to acknowledge the assistance of several members of the Maps, Data, and Government Information Centre of the Trent University Library: Tracy Armstrong, Mike Kyffin and David Lang, whose GIS skills and creativity were essential to the project’s technical development. Siobhan Buchanan and Kathryn McLeod provided valuable research assistance. The editors of this volume provided helpful comments on an earlier draft. John Wadland also provided extensive and thoughtful comments. Bocking and Znamirowski also wish to thank the following institutions for their assistance: Trent Valley Archives, Trent University Archives, University of Toronto Map and Data Library, Western University Map Library, McMaster University Map Library, Brock University Map Library, Kawartha Land Trust, Land Information Ontario, National Air Photo Library, and Library and Archives Canada.

Joanna Dean and Jon Pasher would like to acknowledge the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for funding the geospatial analysis in Chapter 6, which was completed at the Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Laboratory at Carleton University. Air photographs for this chapter were provided courtesy of the National Air Photo Library and the City of Ottawa. Digital mapping was produced by Michelle Leni.

Daniel Rueck is grateful to Louis-Jean Faucher for designing the maps in Chapter 7. He would also like to thank the editors, as well as Stephen Bocking, Barbara Znamirowski and Sherry Olson for their helpful comments and suggestions. The research for this chapter was funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Rueck is also grateful to the many Kahnawá:kehró:non who contributed to his research by offering critical insights and many forms of hospitality and generosity.

Francois Dufaux and Sherry Olson would like to thank the Bibliothèque et archive nationale du Québec (BAnQ), Ville de Montréal, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada on behalf of the MAP project, ‘Montréal l’avenir du passé’.

Matthew G. Hatvany would like to thank Donald Cayer, Chrystian Careau and the staff of the Université Laval cartographic laboratory for their assistance with the photointerpretation, data collection and mapping.

Joshua D. MacFadyen and William (Bill) M. Glen would like to acknowledge the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowships Program for supporting the research in Chapter 10. Access to the inventories and the aerial photographs was given courtesy of the Prince Edward Island Department of Environment, Energy and Forestry.

Sally Hermansen and Henry Yu would like to thank Graeme Wynn for introducing them.

Special thanks to students Jeremy Alexander, Maria Ho and Edith Tam at the University of British Columbia, and Oliver Khakwani and Stephanie Chan at the Stanford Spatial History Lab. Yu would also like thank collaborators Peter Ward, Eleanor Yuen and Phoebe Chow at UBC, the Stanford Spatial History Lab, his Chinese Canadian Stories research team and their academic collaborators at Simon Fraser University and community partners across Canada. Research for this chapter was conducted with generous financial support from the Community Historical Recognition Program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Ruth Sandwell would like to acknowledge the financial support of SSHRC Standard Grant for research completed in her chapter.

Byron Moldofsky would like to acknowledge the support for this chapter provided by the Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation which was the major source of funding for the CCRI, by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Statistics Canada for their joint initiative for Access to Research Data Centres, and by the University of Alberta and its Library for hosting the CCRI data for 1911 and subsequent years as they become available.

Thanks to Don Lafreniere for help in compiling the references in the Appendix.