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Many people have contributed to the telling of Mary Janeway’s story. I am grateful for their contributions and ongoing support.

To the Janeway family: Emma Janeway’s daughter, Lois Lamble, and grandchildren, Wayne Lamble and Gail (Lamble) Horner; Emma’s sons and daughters-in-law Bob and Merle Touchings and Walter and Arlene Touchings for their enthusiasm to share their family history; Gail (Lamble) Horner, for welcoming me into her home in Edmonton and her willingness to lend me family photographs so carefully preserved; Caroline Janeway’s granddaughter, Rowena Lunn, for lending me Mary Janeway’s wedding portrait.

To the Jacques family: Joseph Jacques, for being my friend and remembering Mary at his grandfather’s funeral when he was ten; Donna Skillings, granddaughter of Daniel Jacques Jr., for saving Annie’s letter written in 1907; Barbara Luft and Bill Zinkan, Annie Jacques’s grandchildren, who helped fill in the blanks on the Jacques family tree.

To Ivan Black, for walking me through an “ice man’s delivery day” in Hamilton.

To the staff at Hamilton Public Library: Stella Clark, retired librarian assistant, for advising me on grammatical correctness and helping me in my search for “old stuff” in Canadian history books; Laura Lamb, Leslie Powers, and Mariann Horvath, Local History & Archives, for finding answers to my never-ending questions.

To Anne Gow, Ivey Family London Room, London Public Library, for providing archival images of the London streets in 1900.

To Susan Ramsay, curator of Battlefield House Museum, Stoney Creek, for contributing to descriptions of clothing worn in the early 1900s.

To the late Dr. Ruth Shykoff (Dr. Sky), polio survivor, who readily shared her polio stories of the 1920s based on her medical practice and personal experience.

To Allan Easson, retired production manager for the former Vernon Directories Limited Publishers, for providing information about the Hamilton City Directory.

To Theresa Westfall, deputy warden at Warkworth, who searched her computer database of registered convicts at the Kingston Penitentiary in 1925.

To Dave St. Onge, curator of Correctional Services of Canada Museum for providing insight into “life behind bars” at the K.P. and making available “The Convict Register and Description Book” — Kingston Penitentiary.

To Doreen Thomas, chief, Administrative Services Stony Mountain Institution, Winnipeg, Manitoba, for enlightening me about prison life in 1926.

To Kathleen Latulippe, volunteer for the British Family History Society of Ottawa, for researching the Janeway family tree.

To Ron and Diane Lindsay, now of Ingersoll, for sharing the heritage of their hometown Woodstock and providing a roof over my head when I visited.

To Catherine Steel, my dear friend, who pretended that she wasn’t when she critiqued my first draft.

To Dundurn: Barry Penhale, my publisher emeritus, who never lost faith in me and believed in the importance of telling the rest of Mary’s story; to Jane Gibson, my editor, who never tired of asking me when, where, and why; to Jennifer McKnight, my copy editor, who worked very hard to make sure all was intact.

To my family: Catharine Dochstader, my sister, for remembering some of our childhood memories that I’d forgotten; Steve Silva, my son-in-law, for his willingness and ability to scan all the illustrations; Paul Pettit, my husband, for patiently listening to me think out loud and responding to my constantly asking for his opinion.

And to Mary Janeway, who came to Hamilton as a young bride and never left.