Backwoods of Canada, The
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Backwoods of Canada, The by Catharine Parr Traill
By: Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899)

The Backwoods of Canada
By Catharine Parr Traill
INTRODUCTION

AMONG the numerous works on Canada that have been published within the last ten years, with emigration for their leading theme, there are few, if any, that give information regarding the domestic economy of a settler's life, sufficiently minute to prove a faithful guide to the person on whose responsibility the whole comfort of a family depends-- the mistress, whose department it is to haud the house in order. Dr. Dunlop, it is true, has published a witty and spirited pamphlet, The Backwoodsman, but it does not enter into the routine of feminine duties and employment, in a state of emigration. Indeed, a woman's pen alone can describe half that is requisite to be told of the internal management of a domicile in the backwoods, in order to enable the outcoming female emigrant to form a proper judgment

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