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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... garden was laid out right daintily . The beds were planted with double daisies and many garden bulbs and flowers discarded or begged from the gardener's parter- res . A hollow in the bank was fashioned into a grotto , which we lined ...
... garden . I recall last year at this same date when all the trees were in leaf and the plum and apple trees in full bloom . We are three weeks later this year . Well , it is folly to complain * From my diary of 1888 . of the vicissitudes ...
... garden shrubs , carolling and twittering in the unalloyed gladness of their nature quite heedless of my presence . Let me see who of my old acquaintances are among them . There are the neat little snow sparrows ( Junco hyemalis ) ...
... us . One day they are seen building their temporary nests in our groves and forests , in our garden bushes and orchards , in. House Wren , by Thomas McIlwraith , in Birds of Ontario ( 1894 ) . MEMORIES OF A MAY MORNING 17.
Catharine Parr Traill Elizabeth Helen Thompson. forests , in our garden bushes and orchards , in the shade trees of our busiest streets , under the eaves of our houses and even of our churches and sacred temples ; a few brief weeks or ...
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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 |