Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15.11.1999 - 211 Seiten 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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... Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Traill , Catherine Parr , 1802–1899 Pearls and pebbles Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 1-896219-59-4 1. Natural history - Ontario . I. , Thompson , Elizabeth Helen , 1952– II ...
... THE SPIDER 58 PROSPECTING , AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR 65 IN THE CANADIAN WOODS 67 THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING 82 ALONE IN THE FOREST 90 62 ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA 99 THE CHILDREN OF THE CONTENTS.
... Although the anticipated prosperity never materialized , as a writer , Catharine Traill capitalized on her pioneer experiences , publishing such non - fiction Canadian classics as The Backwoods of Canada EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
... Canadian Crusoes ( 1852 ) , she cre- ates the prototype for a heroine who can be found in Canadian fiction up to and including the present : a practical , capable pioneer woman who sur- vives , even thrives on a hostile frontier ...
... Canadian natural history : native flora and fauna as Traill observes them in the 1890s ; as they were in the 1830s when she came to Canada ; and as they may become in the next century . But her topic is not limited to the environment ...
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MORE ABOUT MY FEATHERED FRIENDS | 32 |
A DEFENSE | 45 |
NOTES FROM MY OLD DIARY | 49 |
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 |
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 |