Credits

The Loyalist Collection Inventory was designed and composed by Kathryn Hilder, the Librarian in charge of the Loyalist Collection from 1978 until her retirement in 1998.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Sincere thanks go to the following for their assistance:

Throughout more than twenty years while Kathryn Hilder was assembling the Loyalist Collection and creating the Inventory, Patricia Kennedy, National Archives of Canada, generously shared her expertise and advice with the author who greatly appreciates her continuing and unfailing support.

Until her retirement, inputting and formatting of the Inventory was done with particular care and dedication by Ardeth Maguire, Departmental Secretary for the Reference Department, Harriet Irving Library. This task was continued by Michael Romard, student assistant in the Microforms Department. The author of the Inventory is particularly grateful for the assistance of these two individuals.

Invaluable assistance was provided by Francesca Holyoke, Science Librarian; Christine Jack, Manager of the Microforms Department, Harriet Irving Library; Elizabeth Fairbairn, Sylvia Guidry, James Kerr, Linda Roulston and Florence Thompson, Library Assistants in the Reference Department; Patricia Good, Anthony Oguntuase and Perry Pryor, Student Assistants in the Reference Department; Joanna Laskey, Stephanie Lutz, James MacGregor, Michael Romard and Sean Swanick, Student Assistants in the Microforms Department.

The images of the officer (seen at left), and the uniform button of the King's American Regiment, are reproduced with permission of Philip Katcher and Reed Consumer Books. They are taken from the book by Philip Katcher. The American Provincial Corps, 1775-1784. Reading, Berkshire: Osprey, 1973.

The plate of the private soldier is reproduced with permission of the City of Fredericton and is taken from a brochure, The Royal Provincials: Loyalist Regiments in New Brunswick, published in 1985 to commemorate the bicentennial of the founding of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

The reproduction of the Royal Provincials (RP) button is used with the permission of John Claus, DeLancey's Brigade, 3rd Battalion (reinactment group), Saint John, New Brunswick.

Background information on the King's American Regiment was prepared by Lt. Col. (Ret'd.) Robert Dallison, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Original web design was prepared by the author Kathryn Hilder and by Stephen Sloan, Librarian at Harriet Irving Library, who also coordinated the mounting and indexing of the database through the UNB Libraries' web server.