Acknowledgements<br >In the preparation of Origim we have benefited enormously from the advice<br >and suggestions of many Canadian historians. We would like to thank<br >Gratien Allaire of the Facult6 Saint-Jean， University of Alberta; Phillip<br >Buckner of the University of New Brunswick; Jean Daigle of the Univ-<br >ersit6 de Moncton; Olive Dickason of the University of Alberta; John<br >Dickinson of the Universit~ de Montr6al; Robin Fisher of Simon Fraser<br >University; Gerald Friesen of the University of Manitoba; James Hiller<br >of Memorial University of Newfoundland; Douglas Leighton of the Uni-<br >versity of Western Ontario; Ken Munro of the University of Alberta; Colin<br >Read of the University of Western Ontario; and Phyllis Senese of the<br >University of Victoria; who each read and provided us with criticisms of<br >individual chapters within their respective research areas. On sever~ spe-<br >cific issues we benefited from the conunents of: Michel Granger of Brooks，<br >Alberta (on the Acadians); James Helmer of the University of Calgary (on<br >recent archaeological findings); Ingeborg Marshall of Portugal Cove， New-<br >foundland (on the Beothuk); Ben Medicine of the University of Calgary<br >(on the native peoples view of their origins); Dale Miquelon of the Uni-<br >versity of Saskatchewan (on recent historical writing on the economic<br >impact of the conquest of New France); Keith Regular of Elkford， B.C.<br >(on Newfoundland); Daniel Richter of Dickinson College， Carlisle， Penn-<br >sylvania (on the Iroquois Confederacy).<br > For Destinies， we would like to thank the following people， who read<br >chapters of the manuscript and offered valuable criticism and advice:<br >Douglas Baldwin of Acadia University; Gail Cuthbert-Brandt of Glendon<br >College， York University; John English of the University of Waterloo;<br >Gerald Friesen of the University of Manitoba; Jim Miller of the University<br >of Saskatchewan; William Morrison of Brandon University; Howard Pal-<br >mer of the University of Calgary; Margaret Prang of the University of<br >British Columbia; John Thompson of McGill University; Keith Walden<br >of Trent University; and William Westfall of York University.<br >