Acknowledgements

Early Writing in Canada has been compiled expressly and exclusively for use in English 274E (Canadian Literature in English) at The University of Western Ontario. Any use or reproduction of the contents of the anthology for any purpose other than the teaching and study of Canadian literature in English 274E could be an infringement of certain copyrights, details of which can be obtained from the Department of English at The University of Western Ontario. On behalf of all the compilers of Early Writing in Canada (Stan Dragland, James Reaney, Tom Tausky, J.M Zezulka, and myself), I should like to express gratitude to Lady Roberts for permission to reproduce poems by Charles G.D. Roberts and John Aylen, Q.C. for permission to reproduce poems by Duncan Campbell Scott.

     Early Writing in Canada is also available on the Canadian Poetry Press web site at http:// www.arts.uwo.ca/canpoetry, which can also be accessed through the UWO homepage (http://www.uwo.ca). This has been made possible by a grant from the Academic Development Fund of The University of Western Ontario and with the editorial and computing assistance of Jessica Coffey, Leslie Ritchie, Michel K. Woods, Kim Edmondson and Gerard Stafleu.

— D.M.R. Bentley