I received generous help from the staff of the Canadian Archives (for access to the work of Mary Ritter Hamilton), the Canadian War Museum, the Nova Scotia Archives, the Halifax Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, NovaScotian Glass, The Kings County Museum, Allison Magee, Robert Held Glass, Parksville, BC.
Finally I am grateful for the encouragement of my children Sophie and Lindsay and for the sympathetic ear and abiding support of my husband, Kim; I am so glad that Roxy’s path led her from Nova Scotia to Vancouver where, years later, her granddaughter found her own happy ending.
ALISON WATT is a writer and painter. She works and teaches out of her studio on Protection Island, near Nanaimo, BC, and leads workshops internationally (www.alisonwatt.ca). Originally a biologist, she has an MFA in creative writing and is the author of The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island, winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and Circadia, a poetry collection. Dazzle Patterns is her first novel.
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