184925 Sources & Acknowledgments. The idea for this book first came to me after Father Tanton's death in 1987, 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 ofCharlottetown, without whose support it is doubtful the book would even now be in print. I am indebted too to the Reverend Jonathan Eayrs , to whom Father Tanton 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 Tales"; to Mrs. Courtney Maynard of , who produced a copy of the Citation that accompanied Father Tanton'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 "Feast of the Purification incident" in Father Tanton'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, N.S. 1871 - 1987 also include important references to Father Tanton and aspects of his ministry. Robert C. Tuck , Easter, 1997 82