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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... side of the lakes . Sadly , neither at the time of her writing nor today is there any indication that the gradual process of loss has ended . “ Notes from My Old Diary ” allows for similar speculation , as in the 1890s Traill looks at ...
... side were high sloping banks , the unfenced boundary of upland pastures . On the grassy slopes grew tall oak trees and a tangled jungle of wild bushes , among which woodbine and sweet briar entwined , forming luxu- riant bowers ...
Catharine Parr Traill Elizabeth Helen Thompson. On the other , or lower side of the land , a little tinkling rill , that a child might step across , ran down , its water clear and bright . From this slender streamlet we children drank ...
... side across the St. Lawrence . A military band was playing , and flags flew from the steeples of the churches on every public building , indeed , was seen the Union Jack in friendly unison with the Stars and Stripes . The bells of the ...
... sides of the smokestack , startling from their night roosts flocks of blackbirds and pigeons . Flying out they circled around us , then settled again among the trees . The distant hooting of the big cat - owl was the only sound that ...
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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 |