The Backwoods of Canada - Letter IX by Catharine Parr Traill | Summary
The Backwoods of Canada - Letter IX by Catharine Parr Traill | Summary Catharine Parr Traill was a 19th-century English-Canadian author who wrote mainly about life in Upper Canada. She started writing at the age of 16, and her first work was "The Tell Tale: An Original Collection of Moral and Amusing Stories (1818)". She started writing about Canadian life when she moved to Upper Canada after her marriage. She also wrote a guidebook for the new settlers of Canada, to provide the necessary information needed to start a comfortable life in the bushland, namely "The Female Emigrant's Guide(1854)". She was also a naturalist and wrote several works such as Canadian Wild Flowers(1868), and Studies of Plant Life in Canada(1885). Catharine Parr Traill Image Courtesy: Google The Backwoods of Canada, is an anthology of letters and journals written by Traill to her mother and family, describing her voyage and life in Canada, the people of Canada, her neighbors, the r...