Acknowledgements

The essays and accompanying notes and questions in the Newfoundland and Labrador Adult Basic Education Social History Series were researched and written by Ed Kavanagh, Carmelita McGrath, Janet McNaughton, Kathryn Welbourn and Kathleen Winter. The series was edited by Marian Frances White.

Funding assistance was provided by the National Literacy Secretariat. Thanks also to the Canada/Newfoundland Cooperation Agreement on Cultural Industries.

The coordinator of the project was Ed Kavanagh. Susan Hoddinott, Literacy Specialist at Cabot College, provided overall coordination.

Thanks to Cabot College instructors Maxine Brown and Audrey Fofonoff for assistance in workshopping the materials. Thanks also to the Adult Basic Education students at the Parade Street Campus of Cabot College who participated in the workshops.

The writers would like to thank all those who kindly consented to be interviewed for these essays.

The writers would also like to offer special thanks to Susan Hoddinott for her advice and expertise, and to Patricia Warren and Amanda Will at the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Thanks also to Patricia Ralph and the participants at the 1995 Atlantic Summer Literacy Institute, Jim Overton, Bert Riggs, Adele Sharpe, Robert Hong, Philip Hiscock, John Joy, Gordon Snow, Gerri Rubia, Colleen Borek, Tony Murphy, Helen Porter, the staff at the St. John's City Hall Archives and the staff at the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (PANL), and the Newfoundland Lung Association. Thanks also to Anne Hart and the staff at the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, MUN.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Adult Basic Education Social History Series is a joint project of the Cabot College Literacy Office and the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador.