| The Backwoods of Canada: Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer Contributor(s): Traill, Catharine Parr (Author) |
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ISBN: 1410215725 ISBN-13: 9781410215727 Publisher: University Press of the Pacific OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: 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!" |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Canada - General - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 8" (0.71 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Canadian - Geographic Orientation - Ontario |
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| Publisher Description: 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 " |