Download or read book Backwoods of Canada written by Catharine Parr Traill and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired army officer. The Backwoods of Canada (1836), Catharine1s epistolary narrative based on her experiences in the country north of Peterborough in the years immediately following her arrival in North America, is an important record of nineteenth-century pioneering and a rich personal memoir of a woman. It has become a foundation work of Canadian Iiterature.