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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... SKETCH BY MARY AGNES FITZGIBBON APPENDIX B 181 CATHARINE PARR TRAILL : A LIST OF IMPORTANT DATES APPENDIX C 183 FAMILY TREE ENDNOTES 187 ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 199 INDEX 203 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE AUTHOR , CATHARINE PARR TRAILL ...
... sketches that she contributed to English periodicals . Her family , left in a precari- ous financial position by the death of Catharine's father , Thomas Strick- land , in 1818 , welcomed her assistance , meager though it might be . In ...
... sketches written throughout her life , featuring , but not limited to her knowledge of Canada . Near the end of the century , and almost a century old herself , Traill looks back to reflect on her life and on Canadian pioneering ; she ...
... sketch becomes a tapestry of interwoven textual strands . Stylistically too , miscellany rules as Traill mingles meditation , anecdote , reminiscence , and detached scientific observation . Although Traill's voice controls the work ...
Catharine Parr Traill Elizabeth Helen Thompson. The second sketch , " Sunset and Sunrise on Lake Ontario , " overtly ... sketches are autobiographical to some extent , taken from Traill's journals and might well be discussed solely in ...
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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 |