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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... " dated 1888 , Traill notices the delayed arrival of snow sparrows , crossbills and tom - tits in spring , and blames the absence on environmental change : In mild winters they were wont to come as early EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION xvii.
... snow sparrows and crossbills ( Loxia curvirostra ) , and the tom - tits or black caps , and many others , delay their coming till April or even May . Traill pursues this line of inquiry in “ More About My Feathered Friends , ” saying ...
... snow of winter , and in the growing scarcity of the fish in our lakes . Such comments sound an alarm . Words like " growing scarcity " and " destruction , " coupled with Traill's obvious love of the bush as it was , move her writing ...
... snow sparrows and crossbills ( Loxia curvirostra ) , and the tom - tits or black - caps , * and many others , delay their coming till April or even May . I used to call the pret- ty snow sparrows my " quaker birds , " when first I saw ...
... snow - white nest , and the pair took possession of this novel - looking house with festal song . But ah me ! their joy was destined to be of but short duration . " The best laid schemes o ' mice and men Gang aft a - gley . " 5 and 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 |