Acknowledgements

The Ontario Dialects Project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Killam Trust.

I would also like to thank the following:

• Prof. Emeritus Ian Pringle, Carleton University
• Prof. Enoch Padolsky, Carleton University, and all those who worked on the Linguistic Survey of the Ottawa Valley
• Almonte, North Lanark Historical Society
• Barry’s Bay, Madawaska Valley Public Library
• Cobalt, Cobalt Mining Museum
• Kirkland Lake, Museum of Northern History
• Temiskaming Shores, Little Claybelt Homesteaders Museum

I am especially indebted to:

• The many people from across Ontario who told us their stories
• Students and volunteers in the University of Toronto Variationist Sociolinguistics Laboratory
• Neil and Lucy Carleton (Almonte); David Shulist (Barry’s Bay)

More information about my research projects and endeavours can be found here: http://individual.utoronto.ca/tagliamonte/index.html

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