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History of Shawville comes from the town's website
http://town.shawville.qc.ca/web

The breakdown of Shawville's population comes from the 2001 Census of Canada.

The story about the language inspector comes from Dave Rogers, “Where Have the Angry Anglos Gone,”
Ottawa Citizen
, July 24, 2010

The W. Francis Gates rules come from his book
Tips for the Traveling Salesman
, B.C. Forbes Publishing Co. 120 Fifth Ave., New York City, 1929. The anecdote about American sales firms handing out spiels for their agents to use comes from p. 5 in that book.

The Epstein story comes from John DeMont,
Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives it Ruled
, Doubleday Canada, 2009, p. 63

The information about the Newfoundland peddlers comes from Jenny Higgins Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web site.
The information for the section on Syrian peddlers in the West, including the quote from Gilbert Johnson comes via Andrea W. Lorenz, “Canada's Pioneer Mosque,”
Saudi Aramco World
, vol. 49, no. 4. The history of peddlers in the rest of Canada comes from: Andrew Armitage, “Peddlers Once a Common Sight,”
The Sun Times
(Owen Sound), April 24, 2009 and Benita Baker, “Rag and Bone Men,”
The Beaver
, December, 2004 which was also the source of the
Macleans
magazine quote about peddlers and the quote from Allan Grossman's autobiography.

The information from Terry Carruthers, chief executive officer of the North West Commercial Traveller's Association of Canada came from a telephone interview with the author.

I based my estimate for the number of sales call Steve has made during his career on a conservative six sales calls a day for 250 days a year over 38 years. It could just as easily be twice that number.

The early days of drive-in movies comes from various sources.

The summary about the end of the good times for drive-ins comes from
Shining Stars: Canada's Drive-in Movie Theatres
, a 2004 documentary by KarowPrime Films. Some of the information about how drive-ins used to work comes from the same film.

The drive-in job figures come from “Movie Theatres and Drive-Ins,” Statistics Canada, June 28, 2005. I based my estimate on drive-in movies in Canada by taking
driveinmovie.com
's figure of a peak of 4,000 drive-in screens in North America and then dividing that by 10. The figure on annual drive-in customers in Canada comes from “Drive-in movies attract new generation,”
CBCNews.ca
July 14, 2006.

Carl Weese's commentary is from “The American Drive-in Movie Theater,” a 2007 show at the Washington Art Association, Washington, Connecticut. I first read of him in Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, “Showcase: Dark Screens, Bright Memories,”
The New York Times
, Jan. 15, 2010.

The description of life in a lighthouse comes from sources within the light-keeping community who, for obvious reasons, wish to remain anonymous.

The world history of lighthouses comes from a variety of sources.

The Louisbourg lighthouse information comes from a variety of entries on the Louisbourg Lighthouse Society websight
http://fortress.cbu.ca/LouisbourgLighthouseSociety/
.

The information about the Bull Island, Nfld. lighthouse came from
Lighthouse Digest
http://www.lighthousedigest.com/Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=1988
.

The information about the St. Paul Island lighthouse came from
http://www.nslps.com/light-detail.aspx?ID=272&M=IP&N=2
.

The figure for the number of lighthouses in Canada at the turn of the 19
^th
century comes from author's interview with Chris Mills.

The author interviewed Elaine Graham via telephone.

For information on the recent saga of lighthouses in Canada I leaned heavily upon
Seeing The Light: Report on Staffed Lighthouses in Newfoundland Labrador and British Columbia
, “Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans,” Bill Rompkey, Chair December 2010 and “Implementation of the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act,” Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, Bill Rompkey Chair, March 2011

The job numbers in this chapter came from the 2006 Census of Canada.