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. |
From inside the book
... 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 CATHARINE X ...
... Agnes Strickland , Lives of the Queens of England ( 1840-1848 ) and Susanna Moodie , Roughing It in the Bush ( 1852 ) Catharine began writing while she was very young , publishing The Tell Tale : An Original Collection of Moral and ...
... Agnes FitzGibbon involves a few of her great - aunt's many admirers including in the number , such pre - eminent figures as Sandford Fleming , later to be knighted for his achievements and become Sir Sandford Fleming . Traill might have ...
... Agnes FitzGibbon's introduction to the first text.3 Mary Agnes was Traill's grandniece , daughter of Agnes FitzGibbon Chamberlin , who collaborated with Traill on Canadian Wild Flowers ( 1868 ) , and grand- daughter of Susanna Moodie . Mary ...
... Agnes FitzGibbon says in her biography of her great - aunt , Jessie never forgot her neighbor's sympathetic assistance : Last summer when Mrs. Traill was so ill that few thought she would recover , Jessie's grief was great . She ...
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 |