The Backwoods of Canada


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(4.5 stars; 29 reviews)

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fill up the void left by the absence of those lighter feminine accomplishments, the practice of which are necessarily superseded by imperative domestic duties.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


(5 stars)

practicle history


(5 stars)

nicely read and a very interesting perspective on life north of Peterborough in the 1830s