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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... Thomas Strick- land , in 1818 , welcomed her assistance , meager though it might be . In May 1832 Catharine married Thomas Traill , a half - pay officer in the British army . Deciding that they could not support a family on his income ...
... Thomas McIlwraith's Birds of Ontario ( 1884 ) is a favorite reference . And various friends voice their opinions as , for example , do Mr. Stewart in “ More About My Feathered Friends ” and Mr. E in " Prospecting . " Traill's knowledge ...
... Among the Thousand Isles , by W.H. Bartlett ,. Brockville , St. Lawrence , by W.H Bartlett , in Willis ' Canadian Scenery ( 1848 ) . House Wren , by Thomas McIlwraith , in Birds of. SUNRISE AND SUNSET ON LAKE ONTARIO : A REMiniscence 11.
... so quietly among us . One day they are seen building their temporary nests in our groves and forests , in our garden bushes and orchards , in. House Wren , by Thomas McIlwraith , in Birds of Ontario ( 1894 ) . MEMORIES OF A MAY MORNING 17.
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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 |