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Diaries & First-Hand Accounts Pioneers and Settlement, Canada Genealogy & History More Books, Maps, & Resources - Canada | Flags of Canada Global Gazette Articles - Canada | Professional Researchers - Canada Searchable Online Data - Canada | Useful Web Links - Canada Canadian Crusoes. A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains. By: Catharine Parr Trail. Edited by: Rupert Schieder. In October 185O when Catharine Parr Traill wrote the dedication for the novel she had entitled "Canadian Crusoes", she put in the final touch to the narrative about children lost in the backwoods on which she had been working for more than three years. From "Oaklands", a farm on the south shore of Rice Lake, in what was then Canada West, she sent the manuscript off to her sisters in England. Almost two years later, this book was published in London. The history of Ms. Traill's story about lost children, written primarily for the young readers addressed in her dedication, begins in 1837. On August 2 of that year Ms. Traill, who had been living on the Otonabee River near Lakefield, Upper Canada, since her emigration from England almost five years earlier, copied into her journal an advertisement from a "Cobourg Star" offering a reward for information about a child "about six years of age" lost on the Rice Lake Plains, and an appended announcement that the child had been found "near Cold Springs alive and well after having wandered in the woods five days and nights". To illustrate the dangers of "the wilderness in which we live", Ms. Traill added other accounts of similar losses. This book is a testament to Catharine Parr Traill's intelligent thinking and writing. Softcover, 323pgs. ISBN 0-88629-035-X
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