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	Catharine Parr Traill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catharine Parr Traill (née Strickland) (January 9, 1802 – August 29, 1899) was a British author who wrote about life as a settler in Canada.
		She married Thomas Traill, a retired officer of the Napoleonic Wars and a friend of her sister's husband John Moodie, although the rest of her family (aside from Susanna) did not approve of him.
		Catharine Parr Traill College, a campus of Trent University in Peterborough, is named for her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catherine_Parr_Traill (375 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Traill, Catharine Parr
		Traill was a prolific, diverse writer and her output includes instructive emigrant manuals, children’s literature, a novel, and botanical texts.
		Catharine recognized that practicality was essential for survival in the backwoods, and despite being an educated, cultured woman, she happily acquired the necessary domestic skills.
		Traill was keenly interested in narratives of lost children, and she explored this rather fearful consequence of living in the backwoods in some of her earlier magazine publications, including “The Mill on the Rapids” (Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal,1838) and “A Canadian Scene” (The Ladies Garland,1841).
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4438 (2090 words)

	Women Pioneers - Catharine Parr Traill - Life
		Catharine’s pleasant demeanour helped her cope with the difficulties and with accepting the consequences of the move.
		The Traills decided to avoid financial risk and built a loghouse during the year that followed their arrival instead of making an attempt at farming like her sister Susanna who had lost money on a farm in the Cobourg area.
		Catharine also met many a person who felt unhappy to arrive and discover it was more difficult than originally thought to succeed in the new colony.
	www.trentu.ca /library/archives/zwomtrli.htm (1116 words)

	Traill, Catharine Parr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Traill, Catharine Parr, née Strickland, pioneer writer, botanist (b at London, Eng 9 Jan 1802; d at Lakefield, Ont 29 Aug 1899).
		In 1832 Traill immigrated to Canada with her husband, half-pay Lieutenant Thomas Traill, and settled on the Otonabee River near Peterborough, next door to her sister Susanna MOODIE.
		There Traill wrote her most famous book, The Backwoods of Canada (1836), a factual and scientific account of her first 3 years in the bush, a pragmatic and optimistic work stressing the kind of realistic detail that has become a tradition in Canadian literature in such writers as Farley MOWAT and Pierre BERTON.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0008087 (142 words)

	Catharine Parr Traill -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Catharine Parr Traill (née Strickland) (January 9, 1802 – August 29, 1899) was a (The people of Great Britain) British author who wrote about life as a settler in (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada.
		Catharine was the older sister of (Click link for more info and facts about Susanna Moodie) Susanna Moodie.
		Catharine Parr Traill College, a campus of (Click link for more info and facts about Trent University) Trent University in Peterborough, is named for her.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/catharine_parr_traill.htm (414 words)

	[permaculture] "If We Would Read It Aright": Traill's "Ladder to Heaven
		Thompson suggests that Traill is conscious of these contradictions that arise from clashes between her attempts as a writer to "document and thereby indirectly to preserve the Canadian wilderness" and her actions as a "pioneer settler," which "helped to destroy the natural habitat" (1998, 140).
		Traill's awareness of the species, relationships, and processes in the natural world demands that she include herself as a living part of the ecosystem; such inclusions provide textual clues about her own judgement of herself and her activities.
		Traill's immersion in the world she observes, names, collects, describes, cultivates, preserves, and loves imbues her text with the vitality and energy of the relationship itself, which is complex and dynamic.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/permaculture/2004-November/020758.html (7491 words)

	Journal of Canadian Studies: "If We Would Read It Aright": Traill's "Ladder to Heaven"
		This essay examines ways in which Catharine Parr Traill's references to plants reveal her personal, philosophical, cultural, social, and moral views, while conveying her own conscious and unconscious feelings about the conflict involved in her position as a colonizing and colonized woman in the Canadian landscape.
		Traill's references are introduced and contextualized through a discussion of examples of the plants and flowers described and used by the other "bush ladies": Anna Jameson, Susanna Moodie, and Anne Langton.
		We argue that Traill's references to plants and flowers are highly metaphorical and symbolic, particularly as they reveal her conscious and unconscious feelings about the conflict involved in her position as a colonized and colonizing woman in a patriarchal Canadian society and landscape.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_200410/ai_n9437667 (1055 words)

	Catharine Parr Traill Biography / Biography of Catharine Parr Traill Main Biography
		Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) was a Canadian naturalist and author who wrote books for children, studies of Canadian flowers and plants, and, most important, accurate accounts of pioneer conditions in Upper Canada.
		Catharine Parr was born in London and began to write stories for children while still a girl.
		The Traills settled in the backwoods near the present town of Peterborough, and she was very close to being a centenarian when she died at Lakefield in 1899.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-catharine-parr-traill (247 words)

	Turning Over a New Leaf: The Literary Ecologies of Susan Fenimore Cooper and Catharine Parr Traill
		But Catharine's frustrations were short-lived, for it was in early 1865, too, that her favorite niece, Agnes Fitzgibbon, suffered the loss of her husband, the prominent barrister Charles Thomas.
		Despite its success, Catharine fretted constantly about the need for corrections and about what she saw, unfairly, as the reduced role she played in the book's ultimate shape: "I was much disappointed in my share of the work which I feel is open to criticism," she writes to a friend shortly after it appeared.
		Catharine Parr Traill to Kate Traill, 17 March 1865; cited in I Bless You, 159-160.
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/suny/2001suny-dyer.html (2004 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
		Traill himself was personally in debt, and Westove, the family estate in the Orkneys to which he was heir, was so encumbered with debt as to offer few prospects.
		Late in The backwoods Catharine notes, perhaps without then realizing the consequences, that her husband was undergoing “the same sort of depression on the spirits as a nervous fever.” As early as 1835 he put the Douro property up for sale.
		No assessment of Catharine’s overall literary achievement will be possible until readers become better versed in the considerable amount of work she wrote from the 1830s to the 1850s.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=40570 (3484 words)

	Backwoods of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters From the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America, by Catharine Parr TRAILL, was published in 1836 in London.
		Traill's letters to her mother in England provide a perennially optimistic account of her day-to-day life in the "backwoods" of UPPER CANADA.
		The letters, particularly vivid in natural description, give us both a portrait of a persevering, buoyant and resourceful woman adapting to a new life and place, and an encyclopedic cataloguing of the details of her new surroundings.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000441 (179 words)

	I Bless You in My Heart: Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill by Laurel sefton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Catharine Parr Traill is best known as the author of The Backwoods of Canada, and essayists have focused on her life as a pioneer and as a writer of cheerful, practical tracts of advice for prospective settlers in Canada.
		Traill was blessed in having a buoyant and optimistic temperment that eased her way through life.
		Catharine Parr Traill was a remarkable woman in that she had nine children, wrote seventeen books, and lived to be ninety-eight years old.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/793/ibless.html (778 words)

	H-Net Review: E.J. Errington on I Bless You in My Heart: Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr ...
		Catharine Parr Traill is perhaps one of the best-known Canadian authors of the nineteenth century.
		Traill obviously continued to be in straitened financial circumstances for most of this period, and was obliged to take in boarders, sew and write to support herself and her family.
		Traill also continued to write, and despite her growing reputation as a woman of letters, to have "misgivings as to the merits of [her] composition" (p.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9812875567624 (1324 words)

	Journal of Canadian Studies: Nobler savages: Representations of native women in the writings of Susanna Moodie and ...
		As immigrant newcomers, Susanna Moodie (Roughing It in the Bush, 1852) and Catharine Parr Traill (The Backwoods of Canada, 1836; "A Visit to the Camp of the Chippewa Indians," 1848; Canadian Crusoes, 1852) represent First Nations Canadians in relation to the stereotype of the Noble Savage.
		Traill's 1848 article, "A Visit to the Camp of the Chippewa Indians," opens by addressing the curiosity of her British correspondent: "You ask me if I have seen anything of the Indians lately.
		Traill, who spent more of her life in rural communities, consistently documents Native women in works issued over nearly the entire duration of her long life in Canada, from The Backwoods of Canada (1836) to Pearls and Pebbles; or, Notes of an Old Naturalist (1894).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199707/ai_n8766171 (1067 words)

	Turning Points of Wisconsin: Indian Rice
		Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) was one of Canada's most prominent 19th-century writers.
		Born in England, Traill and her husband settled in what is today the province of Ontario in 1832.
		In this piece, excerpted from her 1854 Canadian Settler's Guide, Traill discusses wild rice, a frequent topic in her work, and provides some recipes for use in the home.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /turningpoints/search.asp?id=686 (138 words)

	Trent University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is divided into a series of colleges: Champlain, Lady Eaton, Catharine Parr Traill, Otonabee, Peter Gzowski, and Julian Blackburn.
		In 1963, the university received a provincial charter and opened Rubidge Hall, Traill College, and Peter Robinson College in 1964.
		Named after local biologist and writer Catharine Parr Traill, this college was one of the first to be opened, in 1964.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Trent_University (707 words)

	The Backwoods of Canada. by Carole Gerson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Catharine Parr Traill's The Backwoods of Canada, describing her first two years (1832-34) in the Peterborough area and initially published in London in 1836, is generally regarded as the happy-camper version of Canadian pioneer experience.
		Especially significant is Peterman's solution to the problem of determining the reliable text for this edition, given the imperfect nature of the first edition and Traill's many emendations over the course of her long life.
		The final result invites the reader to flip between the core text, Traill's notes, her later reflections appended as `Authorial Perspectives,' and the editor's `Explanatory Notes' (not to mention six appended letters from 1834 to 1843, three by Catharine and three by her husband, Thomas Traill).
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/691/traill91.html (622 words)

	Fascinating Pioneer History - Who’d have thunk? - The Varsity - Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Catharine and Susanna came to Canada with their husbands in the hopes of improving their fortunes.
		While John Moodie and Thomas Traill are both likable in their own right, Gray makes it very clear that it was the women who maintained these families and got them what position they eventually had in Canada.
		Catharine and Susanna are an astounding example of having the drive to write.
	www.thevarsity.ca /news/2001/03/26/Review/Fascinating.Pioneer.History.Who8217d.Have.Thunk-59124.shtml (556 words)

	Electronic Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Catharine Parr Traill's attitudes towards the Canadian landscape have traditionally been based on her work in The Backwoods of Canada (1836).
		Using environmental literary criticism as a broad theoretical framework, this thesis examines the strategies that Traill uses to combine competing discourses of preservation and development within her most ecologically-aware text.
		Also investigated are Traill's position in the history of Canadian science, her use of memory, language, naming, and her depiction of the lives of early settlers and Native communities in creating a sense of place.
	sunzi1.lib.hku.hk /ER/detail/3077489 (128 words)

	Quill And Quire
		The dramatic contrast between Traill’s early life, as a cherished younger daughter in an upper-middle-class English family living on a country estate, and her later life of labour and privation on various Ontario homesteads, is vividly portrayed by Westerhout and Martin, both established Ontario writers.
		A more difficult aspect of the subject, however, is conveying the Traills’ decades of frustrated effort, as one farm after another failed to prosper and had to be sold, and one child and grandchild after another sickened and died.
		Martin spends less time on the tribulations of the Traills’ life as homesteaders, and by separating her material into thematic chapters, ending with one on Traill as a naturalist, she avoids the repetition of gloomy outcomes.
	www.quillandquire.com /books_young/review.cfm?review_id=4256 (654 words)

	Rednova NEWS \| "If We Would Read It Aright": Traill's "Ladder to Heaven" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this discussion, Traill also compares the Sweet Cicely of Canada (Osmorhiza longistylis or daytont)15 with English parsley: "The shining parsley-like leaves of the Sweet Cicely are there too, looking so fresh and tempting that you wish it were, what it greatly resembles, English parsley" (1874, 249).
		Traill's passion for plants raises the question of the extent to which this love acts as a shaping force in her views of other dimensions of her life, particularly those concerned with morality.
		Planting this reference in the text, Traill translates the symbolism from the earth to the page, offering her readers an image that has grown from the botanical to the moral, as she admonishes that "Many a lesson may we learn from the lips of the poor and lowly" (74).
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	Canada Post - Collecting
		Susanna Moodie (née Strickland) and her sister Catharine Parr Traill are two of Canada's most important 19th century writers.
		Pioneer writer and botanist Catharine Parr Traill (née Strickland) is most famous for her book The Backwoods of Canada (1836), an interesting factual and scientific account of her first three years in Ontario.
		With pragmatic and optimistic vision, Parr Traill wrote using the kind of realistic detail that has become a tradition in Canadian literature.
	www.canadapost.ca /personal/collecting/default-e.asp?stamp=stpartl&detail=720 (852 words)

	Roughing It in the Backwoods - Student Handout - Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Roughing It in the Backwoods - Student Handout - Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
		Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill are two of Canada's most important 19th-century writers.
		Navigate the various sections of the Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill site: Biographies, Life in England, Emigration and Bush Life, etc. Take a look at the Letters Index.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /moodie-traill/t1-6020.1-e.html (603 words)

	"CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE" Abstracts A-F
		More specifically, I will explore how Catharine Parr Traill (1802-99), an English settler in what is now Ontario, acquired and transmitted gendered scientific/environmental knowledge in her popular and scientific publications.
		She was the first Canadian naturalist to eke out a living from writing and the first science writer to circulate indigenous environmental knowledge to a large and varied British and North American readership of women, men, and children.
		Because women, indigenous people, and their knowledge have been largely excluded from mainstream histories of science, my work on Catharine Parr Traill will contribute to a re-assessment of gender, science, and the circulation of knowledge at/from the “margins” of the British Empire.
	www.unh.edu /history/golinski/Halifax2.htm (12441 words)

	Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
		Forest and Other Gleanings reclaims for the contemporary reader a number of stories and sketches written by Catharine Parr Traill after her emigration to Canada in 1832.
		Traill herself envisioned and executed several collections of sketches, letters, and stories that had the misfortune of not making it into print.
		This collection seeks, as it were, to complete her aspirations and to offer the reader interested in Traill and nineteenth-century Upper Canada (Ontario) a "gleaning" of her better sketches and stories.
	www.nwpassages.com /Profile_book.asp?ISBN=0776603914 (312 words)

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