Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 1999/11/15 - 211 ページ 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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... building up its wonderful structure , taking and selecting only such particles as were suit- ed to increase the woody fibre and add to the particular qualities of the tree , whether it be oak , or ash , or maple , or the majestic pine ...
... building , indeed , was seen the Union Jack in friendly unison with the Stars and Stripes . The bells of the town rang cheerily in honor of a wedding party , who later came on board our vessel on their honeymoon trip to Niagara . Our ...
... building their nests . In this they have no time to lose , as the season is so late . A lively burst of song greets ... building both labor . They are not selfish , my dear little household pets , like some of the male birds , which ...
... so quietly among 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.
... building of a nest for the reception of the unknown family . I can fancy the lively discussion that is being carried on between the lit- tle pair , where to make choice of the best and safest situation for the nest . That syringa ...
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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 |