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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... emigrants, the Traills were unprepared, mentally or physically, for backwoods life and encountered countless unforeseen difficulties. Although the anticipated prosperity never materialized, as a writer, Catharine Traill capitalized on ...
... emigrants, Susanna Moodie and Samuel Strickland, were always in close contact with their sister Catharine. In addition, the first chapter establishes Catharine's position as a family favourite, “an especial pet in the household.” As the ...
... emigrants like the Traills, who were unaccustomed to manual labour. Catharine Traill has documented some of her experiences ... emigrant. In the chapter, Traill provides a brief portrait of a Canadian town of the 1830s and describes the ...
... emigrant's hope for a better future: “for truly misfortune like an armed force came soon upon them, and every fair and flattering prospect vanished.” Canada might well defeat the emigrant faced with these woes—she could be lost ...
... emigrant. As elsewhere, she provides a comprehensive list of items that have vanished: ...the log house, the primeval settlement house; the disfiguring stump in the newly-cleared fallows; the ugly snake-like rail fence, the rude ...
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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 |