Mary Janeway. Mary Pettit

      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books and the Government of Canada through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit Program and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      To my parents, Robert and Gladys Hewson, for opening their hearts and their home to Mary Janeway, who in turn enriched all our lives.

      “If, as psychiatry has told us, the years of our childhood are the years that shape our inner lives forever, then the practice of child emigration—the act of uprooting children and sending them, alone, across the ocean to work in a strange land in a strange occupation—must be regarded as one of the most Draconian measures in the entire history of children in English-speaking society. Its impact on the life of a sensitive child—even one who was placed in reasonable circumstances—is difficult to measure, sometimes difficult even to imagine“ ¹

      Kenneth Bagnell,

       The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada

      “I don't know why they needed a girl…after all they had Annie. My grandparents never talked about Mary. My grandma was a bit hoity toity. I got the feeling that things weren't too good for Mary…you know she ran away.” ²

      Joseph Jacques,

      grandson of Daniel Jacques

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Mary Janeway required extensive research in order to authenticate the historical context of the late 1800s in rural Ontario. I am indebted to many for their encouragement.

      To Barry Penhale, my publisher, who took a long time deciding whether to publish my work but decided that Mary Janeway certainly ‘deserved attention’;

      To Joseph Jacques, grandson of Daniel Jacques, for his willingness to share his past;

      To David Lorente, Chair of the Heritage Renfrew Home Children Committee, for trying to help me locate Mary's name on juvenile immigration records and ship passenger lists. To David and Kay Lorente, for reading my manuscript twice for correctness;

      To Kenneth Bagnell, author of The Little Immigrants, who willingly gave me permission to quote from his book;

      To John Duncan, for his artistic ability in creating the sketches which help to tell my story;

      To Barry Hoskins, publisher of Heritage Cards, for his photographs of the late 1880s and his artistic ability in scanning turn of the century photographs;

      To Stella Clark, Branch Head of the Stoney Creek Library, and the staff of the Wentworth Libraries, for helping in my endeavour to research my subject thoroughly;

      To Elizabeth Nelson-Raffaele, Curator of the Gibson House Museum, and Millie McClintock, Assistant Curator of the Historic Zion Schoolhouse, for kindly responding to queries about foodways and schooling in the 1890s;

      To Joanne Reynolds, for fielding questions about nineteenth-century social customs;

      To the Special Collections Department in the Hamilton Public Library, for their assistance while I sifted through the archives searching for authentic illustrations;

      To Elizabeth Duern, English teacher at Saltfleet high school, for proofreading to identify the ‘comma splices’;

      To George Milovanov, Head of the History Department at Saltfleet high school, for his advice on its historical authenticity and relevance to high school Canadian history;

      To Gary Rawnsley, Eric Turner and Bill Stubbings, for their computer expertise and patience;

      To Brian Carnahan, a freelance photographer for the Hamilton Spectator, who tried very hard to find my ‘good side’;

      To Rosa, from Rosa's Day Spa and Silvana Elia, my hair stylist for their expertise and patience on ‘photograph day’;

      To Laura Higgins of Natural Heritage for her quiet persistence

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