I Am A Footnote

One day recently, out of idle curiosity, I did a Google Book Search for my name. As I haven't yet published my book manuscript, I was surprised to see my name pop up. One of the local history columns I had written for the Regina Sun is now cited as a reference in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/ Dictionaire Bibliographique Du Canada (edited by Ramsay Cook and Real Belanger). I had written about the popular couple Amedee and Henriette Forget. Amedee Forget was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories in 1898, and when Saskatchewan became a province in 1905 he was its first Lieutenant-Governor, a position in which he continued until 1910. In the entry on Amedee Forget written by E. Brian Titley, my article is listed in the works cited section (Amy Nelson-Mile, “The Forgets had much to offer,” Regina Sun, 21 March 1999). Fame! Or, at least, as much fame as I'm likely to get.