The Backwoods of Canada
Catharine Parr Traill
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The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superior education, as she is to induce them to discard all irrational and artificial wants and mere useless pursuits. She would willingly direct their attention to the natural history and botany of this new country, in which they will find a never-failing source of amusement and instruction, at once enlightening and elevating the mind, and serving to fill up the void left by the absence of those lighter feminine accomplishments, the practice of which are necessarily superseded by imperative domestic duties. To the person who is capable of looking abroad into the beauties of nature, and adoring the Creator through his glorious works, are opened stores of unmixed pleasure, which will not permit her to be dull or unhappy in the loneliest part of our Western Wilderness. The writer of these pages speaks from experience, and would be pleased to find that the simple sources from which she has herself drawn pleasure, have cheered the solitude of future female sojourners in the backwoods of Canada. (Summary from book introduction) (8 hr 34 min)
Chapters
INTRODUCTION & Departure from Greenock in the Brig _Laurel_ | 16:21 | Read by Esther |
Arrival off Newfoundland | 28:09 | Read by Esther |
Departure from Quebec | 10:16 | Read by Esther |
Landing at Montreal | 37:38 | Read by Esther |
Journey from Cobourg to Amherst | 33:47 | Read by Esther |
Peterborough | 38:41 | Read by Esther |
Journey from Peterborough | 25:33 | Read by Esther |
Inconveniences of first Settlement | 15:01 | Read by Esther |
Loss of a yoke of Oxen | 25:32 | Read by Esther |
Variations in the Temperature of the Weather | 35:29 | Read by Esther |
Emigrants suitable for Canada | 26:47 | Read by Esther |
"A Logging Bee" | 20:09 | Read by Esther |
Health enjoyed in the rigour of Winter | 41:11 | Read by Esther |
Utility of Botanical Knowledge | 41:46 | Read by Esther |
Recapitulation of various Topics | 48:39 | Read by Esther |
Indian Hunters | 24:38 | Read by Esther |
Ague | 14:43 | Read by Esther |
Busy Spring | 11:03 | Read by Esther |
APPENDIX | 19:12 | Read by Esther |
Reviews
a very good read. reader
A LibriVox Listener
practicle history
Doug Duimering
nicely read and a very interesting perspective on life north of Peterborough in the 1830s