Backwoods of Canada
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203
1836
English
- INTRODUCTION & Departure from Greenock in the Brig _Laurel_
- Arrival off Newfoundland
- Departure from Quebec
- Landing at Montreal
- Journey from Cobourg to Amherst
- Peterborough
- Journey from Peterborough
- Inconveniences of first Settlement
- Loss of a yoke of Oxen
- Variations in the Temperature of the Weather
- Emigrants suitable for Canada
- "A Logging Bee"
- Health enjoyed in the rigour of Winter
- Utility of Botanical Knowledge
- Recapitulation of various Topics
- Indian Hunters
- Ague
- Busy Spring
- APPENDIX
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fill up the void left by the absence of those lighter feminine accomplishments, the practice of which are necessarily superseded by imperative domestic duties.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)
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