PROPERTY OF U.P.E .l. LIBRARY ??iiv...,-...:.-.-............. ??? -..-.;-???- -----..:J..^:,.??./.lb ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The History Committee of the Stanhope Women 's Institute wishes to thank all those who have helped in any way with the production of this book, including the many people from outside our community who granted us interviews and lent us family records and documents, photographs and scrapbooks. Our grateful thanks go to Nicholas DeJong and the staff of the Public Archives of Prince Edward Island , to the Librarians of the libraries of Confederation Centre and the University of Prince Edward Island, and to the Registrar of the University; to the Archivists of the United Church of Canada Committee on Archives and History, Toronto , and of the Maritime Conference Archives, Halifax. We are grateful for help received from the staffs of the P.E.I. Department of Vital Statistics , the Estates Division of the P.E.I. Supreme Court, and the Land Registry Office; also to the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation and the P.E.I. Genealogical Society, with special thanks to Orlo Jones and Linda Steele; to Parks Canada , especially to Philip Michael and Paul DeMone ; to Janet Wood of Parks and People; and to Sandra Gaudet of New Horizons for her guidance and patience; our thanks are due also to Professor J.M. Bumsted , Andrew B.W. MacEwen and Wendell Kielly for information and help. We are indebted to J.A. Stewart Williams for editing our copy, and to Margaret Power , Noreen Shaw and George Simpson for help with typing. We would like to thank Ruth L. Paynter and Thelma Campbell , and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hudson , who took the trouble to visit us in Stanhope to tell us of their experiences in compiling and publishing community histories. We are grateful to Mr. D.R.C. Harvey , Q.C ., for permission to quote from "Journeys to the Island of St. John", edited by his father, D.C. Harvey; to Mr. Ian Scott of the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation for permission to quote from " Canada 's ", edited by F.W.P. Bolger ; to the Mika Publishing Company of Belleville, Ontario , for permission to use maps and illustrations from their edition of Meacham's 1880 Atlas of P.E.I. ; to Sir David Montgomery and Messrs. Blackwood and Smith , W.S. , of Peebles, Scotland , for permission to quote from the Montgomery Papers ; and