ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The editors would like to thank Mrs. Christina Vernon-Wood of Grindrod, BC, for all her help and encouragement; Harry and John Gow for their written reminiscences of their grandfather (as included in Appendices A and B), and Diana (née Gow) and John Wood for their assistance and especially for providing copies of family photographs.

Allison Jones did much necessary supplemental spadework at the Archives of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies during the summer of 2006, when she was the beneficiary of a Roger S. Smith Research Studentship, supported by the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta. Linda Bridges (History and Classics, University of Alberta) carefully retyped all Tex’s stories from photocopies of originals also held at the Whyte; any errors in transcription are ours, not hers. The archivists at the Whyte Museum were most helpful and forthcoming.

Julie Rak would like to thank Andrew Gow for being such a wonderful collaborator and for asking her to participate in this project. She also thanks Paul Hjartarson and Candida Rifkind for their generous provision of scholarly advice. Most of all, Julie thanks Danielle Fuller because she makes ordinary life into something extraordinary, every day.