Special Thanks
The authors wish to include a special thanks to Allan Pritchard, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto (now living in British Columbia), who discovered Verney's Vancouver Island letters to his father in the archives at Claydon House and published them in 1996 along with a most helpful, thorough and concise introduction. Without Pritchard's work, Verney would likely have remained too inaccessible to us to include in this site, despite his representation of a most interesting imperial relationship.