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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The story of my life is in many ways the story of how the lives of others have touched and ordered my own. So I acknowledge my debt to everyone mentioned in this book, and indeed to hundreds more. But in particular I wish to thank three friends who read my draft, chapter by hesitant chapter, and offered advice, dissent, and, most important, encouragement: Jack and Marie Cahill, and Peter Carver. Without them there might have been no book, and certainly not this one. My wife, Jeannie, learned proofreading as a teenaged editor of a weekly paper in wartime Britain, and she read and corrected my manuscript, even when she disagreed with what I was writing or would rather I had not written it. My sister, Diana, provided early family pictures, and my niece, Gillian Westell, provided some of the research on the Smedley family. Professor Hari Sharma told me about early and revolutionary times at Simon Fraser University.

At the conclusion of Chapter 13 I suggest that Canadians may play a role in the American Empire similar to that of the Scots in the British Empire. I owe that powerful idea to Mark Lovewell, my colleague on The Literary Review of Canada.

The photo on the cover was taken by a friend, the late Jan Breyer. It shows me not as I am today but at mid-life and mid-career and reading a newspaper, which seems appropriate for a book about a life spent working in newspapers.