For liberty to reproduce the more recent of the extracts here
quoted, I have to acknowledge the kindness of Miss E. Pauline
Johnson of Vancouver (No. 52); of Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts (No.
57); of Mr. F. A. Talbot and Messrs. Seeley, Service & Co., author
and publishers of _The Making of a Great Canadian Railway_ (No.
55); and of Messrs. Constable & Co., the publishers of the late
Lord Wolseley's _Story of a Soldier's Life_ (No. 48). To several
of the sources quoted I was directed by the volume of selections
published in 1907 under the title _Canadian Constitutional
Development_, by Professor H. E. Egerton of Oxford and Professor W.
L. Grant of Kingston, Ontario, both of whom have also made other
helpful suggestions, as has Mr. H. P. Biggar, the representative
of the Canadian Archives Office in this country. Finally, the task
of finding what one wanted has been very greatly facilitated by
the sympathetic aid of Mr. P. E. Lewin, who never loses a chance
of making the superb collection over which he presides in the
Library of the Royal Colonial Institute useful to anyone who may
be interested in the Britains overseas.