1802-1899+Catharine+Parr+Traill




 * Catharine Parr Traill** was an [|English-Canadian] [|author] who wrote about life as a settler in [|Canada].

sister to authors [|Agnes Strickland], [|Susanna Moodie] , and Elisabeth Strickland, Traill. She was the first of the sisters to commence writing. She began writing children's books in 1818, after the death of her father.

She described her new life in letters and journals, and collected these into // The Backwoods of Canada // (1836), which continues to be read as an important source of information about early Canada. She describes everyday life in the community, the relationship between Canadians, [|Americans], and [|natives] , the climate

Catharine spent her years in Belleville writing about the natural environment. She often sketched the plant life of Upper Canada. She received a grant c. 1899 from the Royal Bounty Fund, which was supplemented by a subscription from her friends in Canada, headed by Sir Sandford Fleming

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