Ann-Marie MacDonald - Way the Crow Flies

The rhyme that begins “There was a turtle and his name was Bert” is from “Duck and Cover,” an educational film produced in 1951 by Archer Productions, Inc. and sponsored by the U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration.

President John F. Kennedy’s comments regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis are taken from his television address of October 22, 1962.

The epigraphs to “I Cannot Tell a Lie” and “Flexible Response” come from transcripts quoted in Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997.

Lyrics from “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” by Pete Seeger © Copyright 1961 (renewed) by Sanga Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Norman DePoe’s comment regarding the easing of tensions surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis was made on CBC’s Newsmagazine on October 28, 1962.

The epigraphs to “Indian Summer” and “Requiem” come from Mary Eleanor Thomas, Developing Comprehension in Reading . Toronto: J. M. Dent, 1956.

Lyrics from “Bei Mir Bist du Schon.” Original words by Jacob Jacobs. Music by Sholom Secunda. English version by Sammy Cahn & Saul Chaplin. Copyright © 1937; Renewed 1965 Cahn Music Company (ASCAP) and Warner/Chappell (ASCAP). Rights for Cahn Music Company administered by Cherry Lane Music Publishing, Inc. and DreamWorks Songs. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

Lyrics from “Sloop John B.” by Brian Wilson © 1966, renewed New Executive Music. Used by permission.

The epigraph to “Sleeping Dogs” is reprinted with permission of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group from The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi. Translated by Rayond Rosenthal. English translation Copyright © 1988 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.

The epigraph to “Flying Up” comes from The Brownie Handbook . Toronto: Girl Guides of Canada, 1958.

Excerpts from Walt Disney’s copyrighted feature film BAMBI used by permission from Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Excerpts from Walt Disney’s copyrighted BAMBI Story Record are used by permission from Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Froelich’s lines “When I saw Dora, it was no longer a mystery how the pyramids were built,” “I have a trick. I imagine that I have lived before these experiences,” and “I heard once two secretaries from the office, one to say to her friend, ‘Hurry up, you miss the legs’” are paraphrased from Jean Michel’s descriptions of his own reaction to Dora in Jean Michel, Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp Where Modern Space Technology Was Born and 30,000 Prisoners Died . Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.

Simon’s line “I heard one say he’d trade the whole pack of these former Nazis to the Soviets for a dish of caviar” comes from a remark attributed to an American officer quoted in Linda Hunt, Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990 . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

The epigraph to Part Four, “What Remains,” comes from Primo Levi, “Lead.” In The Periodic Table . New York: Schocken Books, 1984.

The epigraph to “And That’s the Way It Is” comes from T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land.” In The Waste Land and Other Poems . London: Faber and Faber, 2002.

Lyrics from “What a Wonderful World” by George David Weiss and Robert Thiele © 1968, renewed. Published by Abilene Music, Range Road Music and Quartet Music. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

The Marianne Faithfull song quoted is “Broken English,” composed by Marian Evelyn Faithfull, Joe Mavety, Barry Reynolds, Terence Philip Stannard and Stephen David York.

René Steenbeke’s comment on the part Dora played in launching modern space travel is quoted in “Survivors of Mittelbau-Dora Commemorate Liberation” by Richard Murphy, found in the Jewish Virtual Library at www.us-israel.org.

“You deserve a break today, so get up and get away” used with permission from McDonald’s Corporation.

The poetry that Madeleine, Mike and Jocelyn listen to in Le Hibou is from Margaret Atwood, “Procedures from Underground.” In Procedures from Underground (Copyright © Margaret Atwood, 1970). Used by permission of the author.

The epigraph to “Hers” comes from Leonard Cohen, “You Have the Lovers.” In Stranger Music . Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994. © Leonard Cohen 1994. Used by permission.

The epigraph to “The Air Force Cross” comes from Stevie Smith, “Not Waving But Drowning.” In Not Waving But Drowning . London: Andre Deutsch, 1957.

The epigraph to “Prête-Moi Ta Plume, Pour Écrire un Mot” comes from Gwendolyn MacEwen, “Dark Pines Under Water.” In The Shadow-Maker . Toronto: Macmillan, 1972. Permission for use granted by the author’s family.

The ordeal of Stephen Truscott, his spirit and courage, have been a major inspiration in the writing of this book.

Occasionally throughout the book, there are phrases of colloquial Acadian French, as well as phrases in the Michif language. In neither case are there hard and fast rules of spelling since both reflect an oral tradition. In both cases, the author has consulted native speakers of the relevant generation, and the translations and spellings reflect those speakers’ experience.

Thank you for your generous help: Theresa Burke, Louise Dennys, Honora Johannesen, Malcolm J. MacDonald (Royal Canadian Air Force retd.), Alisa Palmer, Clay Ruby and the Ruby-Sachs family, Lillian Szpak and Maureen White.

Thank you also to the following individuals and organizations for invaluable research information and, in numerous cases, the pleasure of many conversations: Irving Abella, Augustine Abraham, Ginette Abraham, Alice Aresenault and the Bouctouche Museum, Margaret Atwood, Bnai Brith, Professor Stephen Brooke, Professor Chalk, the staff, past and present, of Chatelaine magazine, Dr. Trudy Chernin, Charles Clarke, Michael Claydon, Professor Ramsay Cook, Deb Cowan, Olenka Demianchuk, Department of National Defence Directorate of History and Heritage — especially Richard Gimblett, William Rawling, Isabel Campbell and Donna Porter — Mike Englishman, Hugh Halliday, Peter Haydon (Royal Canadian Navy retd.) Geoffrey Hopkinson and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation archives, Malcolm Johannesen, Sigurd Johannesen (Canadian Forces retd.), Linda Kash, Dan Kaye (RCAF retd.), Douglas Lantry and the USAF Museum, Anne-Marie Lau and The RCAF Museum Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Linda Laughlin, Lindsay Leese, John Hugh MacDonald (Pipe Major, CF), Mary T. MacDonald (RN retd.), Tricia McConnell, Henry Melnick, Montana, National Archives of Canada, Almark Books, Michael J. Neufeld and the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Ontario Archives, Ontario Institute of Studies in Educations, University of Toronto Archives, Doreen Keizer (Girl Guides of Canada), Danielle Palmer, Jacob Palmer, Gloria Peckam and Dog Guides Canada, Eric Price, the producers of It Seems Like Yesterday , Jeanette Richard, Rick Rickards, Bill Randall (RCAF retd.) and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Alti Rodal, David Rudd and the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies, Harriet Sachs, Andrea Schwenke, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, John Starnes, Gina Stephens, Dave Sylvester, Patrick Szpak, Betty Twena, Tulin Valeri, Cylla von Tiedeman, Lorraine Wells, Joseph White (RCAF retd.) and Zsa Zsa.

Thank you as well to the staff of Knopf Canada and Random House of Canada, especially Nina Ber-Donkor, Deirdre Molina, Scott Richardson and Jen Shepherd. Special thanks also to Susan Broadhurst and an extra special thanks to Gena Gorrell.