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Sources & Acknowledgments. The idea for this book first came to me after Father T anton 's death in 1 98 7, but for various reasons it could not be implemented until 1996, when it took shape, not as the biography I had originally intended, but as a kind of collage of texts and pictures, linked together by the running commentary with which the reader is by now familiar. Connie Tanton was interested in the project, and made available to me for it many of the photographs reproduced in

the book. I wish it had been possible to get it into print before her death. I am

grateful also to Ronald Orton of Charlottetown, without whose support it is douby‘ul the book would even now be in print. I am indebted too to the Reverend Jonathan

anrs, to whom Father T anton entrusted his papers before his death, for the texts of most of the sermons and addresses included in the book; to those who responded to my appeals for recollections of Father Tanton, whose contributions are included in the section titled "A Few T ales "; to Mrs. Courtney Maynard of Port Hill, who produced a copy of the Citation that accompanied Father T anton's Doctor of Divinity degree from King’s College, and the photograph of Father Staff and Connie reproduced in the front of the book. I would also like to thank Canon

Russell Elliott for shedding light on the otherwise puzzling reference to the "F east of the Purification incident" in Father T anton’s notes for his "What Anglicanism

means to me " talk given to Anglican students at the Atlantic School of Theology.

Canon Elliott’s book, The Briefcase Boys, and Edith Rowlings' The Story of Emmanuel Church, Dartmouth, NS. 1871 - 1987 also include important references to Father T anton and aspects of his ministry.

Robert C. Tuck, Easter, 1997