Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 лист. 1999 р. - 240 стор. How fitting to close out the 20th century with a brand new edition of Pearls & Pebbles by the noted chronicler of pioneer life, Catharine Parr Traill. Published in 1894, Pearls & Pebbles is an unusual book with a lasting charm, in which the author’s broad focus ranges from the Canadian natural environment to early settlement of Upper Canada. Through Traill’s eyes, we see the life of the pioneer woman, the disappearance of the forest, and the corresponding changes in the life of the Native Canadians who have inhabited that forest. Editor Elizabeth Thompson reminds us of the significance of the writings by Traill, the aged author/naturalist, who felt that the hours spent gathering the pebbles and pearls from her notebooks and journals written in the backwoods of Canada was not time wasted. |
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... Settler's Guide ( 1854 ) ; lively and pragmatic , these books were popular at the time and are still widely - read today . Catharine Traill's life in Canada affected her fiction as well , for in Catherine Maxwell , the protagonist of ...
... Settler's Guide and in numerous periodical pieces . 6 “ Sunset and Sunrise ” is an appropriate place to begin a discussion of pioneering in Canada , for it features the pioneer's arrival . The piece cap- tures a typical spirit of heady ...
... settler as obstacles to success ; accordingly , in the process of pioneering , trees are ruthlessly cut down and native life forms vanish . Although herself a pioneer , and thereby implicated in the destruction , Traill portrays the pio ...
... settler in the forest wilderness , a stranger and an emigrant from a far - off land . Coming to make himself a home , he must cut down the liv- ing trees and clear the ground with axe and fire . Although the diction ( fire , struggle ...
... settler herself , she is aware of her complicity in the destruction of an ecosystem , and her work resonates with an unresolved tension . Has she improved or destroyed the landscape ? Compare this with our own eco- logical concerns , as ...
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MORE ABOUT MY FEATHERED FRIENDS | 32 |
A DEFENSE | 45 |
NOTES FROM MY OLD DIARY | 49 |
THOUGHTS ON VEGETABLE INSTINCT | 109 |
SOME CURIOUS PLANTS | 115 |
SOME VARIETIES OF POLLEN | 120 |
THE CRANBERRY MARSH | 123 |
OUR NATIVE GRASSES | 126 |
INDIAN GRASS | 132 |
MOSSES AND LICHENS | 136 |
THE INDIAN MOSS BAG | 141 |
THE SPIDER | 58 |
PROSPECTING AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING | 62 |
THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR | 65 |
IN THE CANADIAN WOODS | 67 |
THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING | 82 |
ALONE IN THE FOREST | 90 |
ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA | 99 |
THE CHILDREN OF THE FOREST | 103 |
SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS | 144 |
APPENDIX A | 151 |
APPENDIX B | 181 |
APPENDIX C | 183 |
ENDNOTES | 187 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 199 |
INDEX | 203 |