Acknowledgements

All the novels in the St-Cyr-Kohler series incorporate a few words and brief passages in French or German. Dr Dennis Essar of Brock University very kindly helped with the French, as did the artist Pierrette Laroche, while Professor Schutz, of Germanic and Slavic Studies at Brock, helped with the German.

A very special thanks must also be extended to Dr Cynthia Scott-Dupree, of the Department of Environmental Biology at the University of Guelph, for her very kind assistance with the technical aspects of beekeeping. Should there be errors in any of the above, they are my own, and for these I apologize but hope there are none.