Selected chapters from Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, the record of an English writer’s year in Upper Canada. She describes raw young Toronto in 1837, a winter journey to Niagara, her reading of Goethe and thoughts on literary women, then a summer journey west through settlements and Ojibwa country around the lakes.
A sharp, independent woman’s view of early Canada and its peoples, written with the outlook of 1838. Download the free EPUB.