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The Backwoods of Canada

by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

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1836
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220
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  1. INTRODUCTION & Departure from Greenock in the Brig _Laurel_

    16:21

  2. Arrival off Newfoundland

    28:09

  3. Departure from Quebec

    10:16

  4. Landing at Montreal

    37:38

  5. Journey from Cobourg to Amherst

    33:47

  6. Peterborough

    38:41

  7. Journey from Peterborough

    25:33

  8. Inconveniences of first Settlement

    15:01

  9. Loss of a yoke of Oxen

    25:32

  10. Variations in the Temperature of the Weather

    35:29

  11. Emigrants suitable for Canada

    26:47

  12. "A Logging Bee"

    20:09

  13. Health enjoyed in the rigour of Winter

    41:11

  14. Utility of Botanical Knowledge

    41:46

  15. Recapitulation of various Topics

    48:39

  16. Indian Hunters

    24:38

  17. Ague

    14:43

  18. Busy Spring

    11:03

  19. APPENDIX

    19:12

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Household work stands at the center of Catharine Parr Strickland Traill's letters about settling in Ontario. Published in 1836, The Backwoods of Canada follows travel from Greenock through Canadian waterways and towns into the woods, then turns to the demands of establishing a home. Its contents range from building a log house and obtaining provisions to dairy work, winter weather and the plants and birds of the surrounding country.

Traill writes with prospective emigrant families in mind, drawing on three years of experience to explain the costs, effort and practical decisions involved. In the middle excerpt, her attention rests on corn: planting dates, frost, damaged crops, storage and the preparation of cornmeal for food. Wages and potato cultivation share space with these observations. The letters give readers interested in settlement history a detailed account of daily labor, shaped by a woman's household responsibilities and her interest in natural history.

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First published
1836
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
220
Language
English
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Esther