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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... INDIAN GRASS 132 MOSSES AND LICHENS 136 THE INDIAN MOSS BAG 141 SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS 144 APPENDIX A 151 INTRODUCTORY NOTE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY MARY AGNES FITZCIBBON APPENDIX B 181 CATHARINE PARR TRAILL: A LIST OF ...
... Indian Summer has ceased to be a predictable phenomenon: There is a change in the climate since the time when we used to look for the Indian Summer. The destruction of the forest trees has told upon it in many ways. We feel it in the ...
... Indian word for “flashing water running fast” lies at the foot of the grassy slope and open grove of forest trees which divide my garden from its shores. From the opposite bank the village cottages, church spires and busy factory cast ...
... Indians, in their expressive language, call the Baltimore Oriole. Baltimore Oriole, by Thomas Mcllwraith, in Birds of Ontario (1894). *The Canada Jay—Perisoreus Canadensis. Indian name, Wis-ka Tjan—“Whiskey Jack.” Blue. 26 PEARLS AND ...
Catharine Parr Traill Elizabeth Thompson. The Indians, in their expressive language, call the Baltimore Oriole “Fire ... Indian name. The nest of the Oriole is a curious piece of workmanship, composed of all sorts of thready materials ...
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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 |
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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 |