Pearls and PebblesHow 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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... Canada by Hignell Printing Limited Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Traill , Catherine Parr , 1802–1899 ... CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS SINCE 1957 LE CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA DEPUIS 1957 Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc ...
... THE SPIDER 58 PROSPECTING , AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR 65 IN THE CANADIAN WOODS 67 THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING 82 ALONE IN THE FOREST 90 62 ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA 99 THE CHILDREN OF THE CONTENTS.
... Although the anticipated prosperity never materialized , as a writer , Catharine Traill capitalized on her pioneer experiences , publishing such non - fiction Canadian classics as The Backwoods of Canada EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
... Canada ( 1836 ) and The Canadian Settler's Guide ( 1854 ) ; lively and pragmatic , these books were popular at the time and are still widely - read today . Catharine Traill's life in Canada affected her fiction as well , for in ...
... Canada . The book consists of a series of prose sketches , and some poetry . The chief focus is Canadian natural history : native flora and fauna as Traill observes them in the 1890s ; as they were in the 1830s when she came to Canada ...
Contents
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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 |