Miller had, in the thirties, collected a huge heap of legal and municipal documents with relevance to the Biddulph Tragedy from the attics of the courthouses at Goderich and at London. As a child I had heard the story of this tragic family from our hired man, and my interest was revived now, especially when I heard that Mr. “One of my early experiences back here* was to go with my father to hear Orlo Miller lecture at Middlesex College on his recent book The Donnellys Must Die.
Miller’s collection of relevant documents was available to Reaney at the University of Western Ontario’s Regional Archives:
Orlo Miller, who wrote the historical book The Donnellys Must Die (1962), had based his research on local courthouse documents of the time. In the 1976 Alumni Gazette (UWO) article “Souwesto Theatre: A Beginning” excerpted here, James Reaney describes the years he spent researching the Biddulph Tragedy of Februand how the knowledge he gained about the Donnellys’ world helped create the Donnelly trilogy.
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