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Canadian Crusoes (Large Print Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Traill, Catharine Parr

Contemporary

BiblioLife

Catharine Parr Traill’s The Backwoods of Canada, first published in 1836, gives an intimate and vivid picture of life in the bush country of Upper Canada. The series of letters that make up the book cover a period of two and half years. Though most were originally written to her mother, the letters were later compiled and published for an intended audience of future female emigrants. 
Traill’s account of life in the New World is cheerful and buoyant despite the hardships she relays—from the three-month journey to Upper Canada by ship to settling in the bush near Peterborough, Ontario. The letters offer remarkable insight into the skills a well-suited woman might be expected to learn, but the lasting appeal of her work is due to her astute observations of changing notions of class and economy, which reached well beyond her stated audience. Traill typified a new type of woman—the pioneer—and contributed much to an emerging understanding of Canada and Canadian identity.

Penguin Black Classics:The Backwoods of Canada

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Penguin Canada

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

The Canadian Settlers Guide

New Canadian Library

The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity in this portrayal of pioneer life by Catharine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land.

The Backwoods of Canada (New Canadian Library)

The Backwoods of Canada

Historical

This absorbing story about three children of Scottish and French origin who become lost on the Rice Lake Plains in the late eighteenth century provides the author with an opportunity to contemplate important themes of Canadian literature and identity.

Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains (Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts) (Volume 2)

Schieder, Rupert

Literary

Carleton University Press

Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired officer. The Blackwoods of Canada (1836), Catharine's epistolary narrative based on her experiences in the country north of Peterborough in the years immediately following her arrival in North America, is an important record of nineteenth-century pioneering and a rich personal memoir of a woman. It has become a foundation work of Canadian literature.

The Backwoods of Canada (Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts) (Volume 11)

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

The Backwoods of Canada is a collection of personal letters written by Catharine Parr Traill and published in 1836. The book was intended to equip other women immigrants with a realistic view of what life was like on the wilderness frontier of Canada as well as insight into the skills and strength needed to survive.Following her marriage to Thomas Traill, a retired British Lieutenant who served in the Napoleonic Wars, the couple emigrated to Canada and settled in the backwoods near what is now Peterborough, Ontario. Catharine was a prolific writer, having authored her first book at the age of 16. Following the publication of this book, she went on to produce Canadian Crusoes (1851) and The Female Emigrant’s Guide (1854) with which she shared more antidotes of daily frontier life as well as a more thorough collection of requisite domestic skills. Traill was also an avid naturalist, producing multiple volumes on Canadian flora and fauna.This book offers an excellent glimpse into frontier life as it had existed relatively unchanged for many decades. It is especially unique in that it provides that glimpse from a female perspective.

The Backwoods of Canada: Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer

History

Americas

Townsends

Sketches From Nature: Or Hints To Juvenile Naturalists (1830)

Children's Books

Kessinger Publishing

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Professionals & Academics

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