Pearls and Pebbles
Description
How 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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Catharine Parr Traill, sister of Agnes Strickland and Susanna Moodie, settled near Peterborough Ontario in 1832. She 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.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Editor's Introduction
- Preface
- Pleasant Days of My Childhood
- Sunset and Sunrise on Lake Ontario: A Reminiscence
- Memories of A May Morning
- Another May Morning
- More About My Feathered Friends
- The English Sparrow: A Defense
- Notes From My Old Diary
- The Spider
- Prospecting, and What I Found In My Digging
- The Robin and The Mirror
- In The Canadian Woods
- The First Death in the Clearing
- Alone in the Forest
- On the Island of Minnewawa
- The Children of the Forest
- Thoughts on Vegetable Instinct
- Some Curious Plants
- Some Varieties of Pollen
- The Cranberry Marsh
- Our Native Grasses
- Indian Grass
- Mosses and Lichens
- The Indian Moss Bag
- Something Gathers Up the Fragments
- Appendix A: Introductory Note
- Biographical Sketch by Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon
- Appendix B: Catharine Parr Traill: A List of Important Dates
- Appendix C: Family Tree
- Endnotes
- Illustration Credits
- Index
