Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge funding support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, through the Mapping Quality of Life and the Culture of Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance at Thompson Rivers University. We are grateful for the ongoing support provided by Will Garrett-Petts, associate vice-president, Research and Graduate Studies, and former project director of the Small Cities CURA. We also wish to thank Pamela Holway, senior acquisitions editor at Athabasca University Press, for her numerous editorial suggestions and her dedication to this book. Thanks to Ross Nelson for the maps found in this collection. And last but far from least, we extend our deepest appreciation to our partners, Lise Tessier and Keely McKibben, whose advice, support, and love made an immeasurable contribution to the book’s completion.