Novels that draw a substantial portion of their narrative from history cull their information from many sources, while permitting fact and fiction to commingle. Stories recounted by Captain (retired) Jacques Cinq-Mars, the former captain of the Night Patrol with the Montreal Police Department, were crucial and inspiring to this writer. I hope that the accounts were put to good use here. I am greatly indebted also to a broad range of published material. Listed alphabetically by author and indicating publication dates for the editions at my disposal, I especially credit: Duplessis, by Conrad Black, published by McClelland & Stewart, 1977; Montreal: The Days That Are No More, by Edgar A. Collard, published by Doubleday Canada, 1976; Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination, by Bryan Demchin-sky and Elaine Kalman Naves, published by McFarlane, Walter & Ross, 2000; The Revolution Script, by Brian Moore, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971; Montreal: From Mission Colony to World City, by Leslie Roberts, published by Macmillan of Canada, 1969; Memoirs, by Pierre Elliott Trudeau, published by McClelland & Stewart, 1993; City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and ‘50s, by William Weintraub, published by McClelland & Stewart, 1996. Of assistance were websites operated by the government of Canada on early French-Canadian history. To editors and readers Shea Lowry, Anne McDermid, Lina Roessler, Andrew Hood, Lloyd Davis and Iris Tupholme, great thanks.