The Backwoods of Canada

Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer

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Catharine Parr Traill

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Paperback / softback

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Originally published in 1836, this was one of the few books on frontier Canada to give details of the domestic economy of a settler's life. Her target audience was the upper-class English immigrant. "It is not only the poor husbandmen and artisans, that move in vast bodies to the west, but it is the enterprising English capitalist, and the once affluent landholder, alarmed at the difficulties of establishing numerous families in independence, in a country where every profession is overstocked, that join the bands that Great Britain is pouring forth into these colonies! Of what vital importance is it that the female members of these most valuable colonists should obtain proper information regarding the important duties they are undertaking; that they should learn before hand to brace their minds to the task, and thus avoid the repinings and discontent that is apt to follow unfounded expectations and fallacious hopes!"

Release date Australia

August 26th, 2004

Author

Catharine Parr Traill

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

360

Dimensions

127x203x23

ISBN-13

9781410215727

Product ID

2242501

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