In 1832 the English-born Traill sailed with her husband, a half-pay officer, to settle on uncleared land near Peterborough in Upper Canada. Her letters home describe the voyage, building a log house, clearing the forest, growing Indian corn, making maple sugar, the plants and birds she studied, and the neighbours both settler and Indigenous.
A classic of Canadian pioneer writing, practical, observant and good-humoured. Download the free EPUB.