Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 1999/11/15 - 240 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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... PLANTS 115 SOME VARIETIES OF POLLEN 120 THE CRANBERRY MARSH 123 OUR NATIVE CRASSES 126 INDIAN GRASS 132 MOSSES AND LICHENS 136 THE INDIAN MOSS BAG 141 SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS 144 APPENDIX A 151 INTRODUCTORY NOTE BIOGRAPHICAL ...
... plants and birds and wild creatures, common once, have disappeared entirely before the march of civilization. As the woods which shelter them are cleared away, they retire to the lonely forest haunts still left, where they may remain ...
... plants have disappeared and we see them no more.” Similarly, Indian Summer has ceased to be a predictable phenomenon: There is a change in the climate since the time when we used to look for the Indian Summer. The destruction of the ...
... plants, animals and people, for in her eyes, the Native Canadians may also disappear with the removal of the forest. As a pioneer settler herself, she is aware of her complicity in the destruction of an ecosystem, and her work resonates ...
... , lined with the softest plant down. Eggs, two, pure white, blushed with pink while fresh. Mcllwraith, Birds of Ontario. *Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus Erythrophthalmus (Wils.). Hab.—Eastern North America, from Labrador. ANOTHER MAY MORNING.
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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 |
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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 |