Christine van der Mark (1917-1970) was born and raised in Calgary. While teaching in rural Alberta schools, she attended the University of Alberta, receiving her B.A. in 1941 and her M.A. in Creative Writing in 1946. Much of her writing expressed sympathetic concern for the Métis of Northern Alberta. Born in Montreal, Carole Gerson is a professor in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. Her research on Canadian literary and publishing history and on early Canadian women writers has resulted in many publications, including two books on Pauline Johnson. She was a member of the editorial team for the major three-volume project History of the Book in Canada, for which she co-edited volume 3, covering the period 1918-1980. Janice Dowson teaches English literature and academic writing in the English Departments at Simon Fraser University and University of the Fraser Valley. She has been a practicing transactional analysis clinician at Touchstone Centre in Maple Ridge for over thirty years. An emphasis on preserving the humane in the humanities invigorates her clinical work, pedagogical practice, and scholarship.