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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In presenting this new edition of my
2006 website on Dillon Wallace's 1913 pilgrimage to Leonidas Hubbard's
place of death, I wish to express my thanks to Dillon Wallace III, and
his late sister, Ann Wallace McKendry, for their unwavering support for
my work of researching and editing the many untitled and reworked
chapters typed by their father 90 years ago. The 1913 story has never
been published in its entirety, or in book form.
I am honoured by the generous granting
to me of publishing rights to the story, by the two Wallace heirs, in
recognition of my initiative in making it possible for Dillon Wallace
III and me to rediscover Hubbard's last camp and erect a replica of the
bronze tablet lost in the rapids in 1913; my work in bringing to light
the long-forgotten account of the 1913 expedition; my success in getting
features named by Dillon Wallace added to official government maps of
Labrador; and my 1975 article on Dillon Wallace in The Beaver magazine,
which some have suggested may have had something to do with the numerous
magazine stories, documentaries and books on Wallace and Hubbard that
followed.
Viewers who wish to learn more about
the 1973 rediscovery of Hubbard's last camp may find it worthwhile to
visit my other website,
The Search for
Hubbard's Rock.
The timeless writing style of
Wallace's The Lure of the Labrador
Wild and
The Long Labrador
Trail has been left unchanged in his very personal narrative of
the return to the "Valley of the Shadow of Death". Original spellings of
place names and geographical features have also been retained.
Photographs and maps are from my personal collection, and, where marked,
from archival sources.
A word of thanks is owed to Bert Riggs
and staff members of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives at
Memorial University for supplying me with photocopies from the Wallace
papers of typescripts by Dillon Wallace containing previously
unpublished details of the 1913 journey.
Rudy Mauro
North Bay, Ontario
Canada
February, 2008
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