The Backwoods of Canada
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INTRODUCTION & Departure from Greenock in the Brig _Laurel_
16:21 -
Arrival off Newfoundland
28:09 -
Departure from Quebec
10:16 -
Landing at Montreal
37:38 -
Journey from Cobourg to Amherst
33:47 -
Peterborough
38:41 -
Journey from Peterborough
25:33 -
Inconveniences of first Settlement
15:01 -
Loss of a yoke of Oxen
25:32 -
Variations in the Temperature of the Weather
35:29 -
Emigrants suitable for Canada
26:47 -
"A Logging Bee"
20:09 -
Health enjoyed in the rigour of Winter
41:11 -
Utility of Botanical Knowledge
41:46 -
Recapitulation of various Topics
48:39 -
Indian Hunters
24:38 -
Ague
14:43 -
Busy Spring
11:03 -
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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