The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping (Classic Reprint)
The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping (Classic Reprint)

Author: Catherine Parr Strickland Traill

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780259424123

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The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill is a window into the Canadian way of life. While the book might be aimed at female emigrants specifically, the contents of this exhaustive work are useful for everyone wishing to learn the nuances of Canadian culture and lifestyle with detailed observations on maintaining and running a household. Traill explains common household chores with great elan making this book an enjoyable read. As someone who learnt the ropes on her own, Traill shares her experiences and puts together a ready reference for anyone wishing to relocate to Canada. With a tone of instruction and advice, she covers various aspects in The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping ranging from recipes specific to Canada, the ingredients and materials required for cooking and other housekeeping tasks as well as dedicated sections on issues like value of land, stores and miscellaneous matters. Traill writes a note to fathers and husbands and another for wives and daughters who are in the process of emigrating with specific advice to both sets, the crux of which revolves around the fact that there is no place in the country for those who do not wish to, or are not in a position to work hard with honesty and integrity. The sections on cooking and specific recipes are perhaps the mainstay of this work as Traill provides valuable insight into the peculiarities of the Canadian kitchen. Not only does The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping provide specific instructions for women, it is an excellent resource for the general reader to understand Canada better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping
The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping

Author: C P Traill

Publisher: Reprint Publishing

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9783959400466

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Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1854 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (born January 9, 1802, died August 29, 1899). She was an English-Canadian author and naturalist who wrote about life as a settler in Canada. Her many albums of plant collections are housed in the National Herbarium of Canada at the Canadian Museum of Nature. "The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping" is a window into the Canadian way of life. She explains common household chores with great elan making this book an enjoyable read. The sections on cooking and specific recipes are perhaps the mainstay of this work as Traill provides valuable insight into the peculiarities of the Canadian kitchen. The book is an excellent resource for the general reader to understand Canada better. On 8 September 2003, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Library of Canada, Canada Post released a special commemorative series, "The Writers of Canada," featuring two English-Canadian and two French-Canadian stamps. Three million stamps were issued. Traill and her sister Susanna Moodie were featured on one of the English-Canadian stamps."

The Female Emigrant's Guide and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping
The Female Emigrant's Guide and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping

Author: Catherine Parr 1802-1899 Traill

Publisher:

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019529980

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Written for the many women who emigrated from Europe to Canada in the 19th century, this book is a practical and insightful guide to the challenges of life in a new land. From cooking and cleaning to child-rearing and community-building, Traill's advice remains relevant to this day. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide
Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide

Author: Nathalie Cooke

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 748

ISBN-13: 0773549323

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What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with maple sauce, and dandelion coffee – this was an ordinary backwoods meal in Victorian-era Canada. Originally published in 1855, Catharine Parr Traill’s classic The Female Emigrant’s Guide, with its admirable recipes, candid advice, and astute observations about local food sourcing, offers an intimate glimpse into the daily domestic and seasonal routines of settler life. This toolkit for historical cookery, redesigned and annotated in an edition for use in contemporary kitchens, provides readers with the resources to actively use and experiment with recipes from the original Guide. Containing modernized recipes, a measurement conversion chart, and an extensive glossary, this volume also includes discussions of cooking conventions, terms, techniques, and ingredients that contextualize the social attitudes, expectations, and challenges of Traill’s world and the emigrant experience. In a distinctive and witty voice expressing her can-do attitude, Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide unlocks a wealth of information on historical foodways and culinary exploration.

Culinary Landmarks
Culinary Landmarks

Author: Elizabeth Driver

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 1326

ISBN-13: 0802047904

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Culinary Landmarks is a definitive history and bibliography of Canadian cookbooks from the beginning, when La cuisinière bourgeoise was published in Quebec City in 1825, to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of more than ten years Elizabeth Driver researched every cookbook published within the borders of present-day Canada, whether a locally authored text or a Canadian edition of a foreign work. Every type of recipe collection is included, from trade publishers' bestsellers and advertising cookbooks, to home economics textbooks and fund-raisers from church women's groups. The entries for over 2,200 individual titles are arranged chronologically by their province or territory of publication, revealing cooking and dining customs in each part of the country over 125 years. Full bibliographical descriptions of first and subsequent editions are augmented by author biographies and corporate histories of the food producers and kitchen-equipment manufacturers, who often published the books. Driver's excellent general introduction sets out the evolution of the cookbook genre in Canada, while brief introductions for each province identify regional differences in developments and trends. Four indexes and a 'Chronology of Canadian Cookbook History' provide other points of access to the wealth of material in this impressive reference book.

Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration
Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration

Author: Tamara S Wagner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-26

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1317002164

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In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre of anti-emigration writing that emerged as an important counter-current to a pervasive emigration propaganda machine that was pressing popular fiction into its service. The exportation of characters at the end of a novel indisputably formed a convenient narrative solution that at once mirrored and exaggerated public policies about so-called 'superfluous' or 'redundant' parts of society. Yet the very convenience of such pat endings was increasingly called into question. New starts overseas might not be so easily realizable; emigration destinations failed to live up to the inflated promises of pro-emigration rhetoric; the 'unwanted' might make a surprising reappearance. Wagner juxtaposes representations of emigration in the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge with Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian settler fiction by Elizabeth Murray, Clara Cheeseman, and Susanna Moodie, offering a new literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation.

Scots in Canada
Scots in Canada

Author: Jenni Calder

Publisher: Luath Press Ltd

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1909912670

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In Canada there are nearly as many descendants of Scots as there are people living in Scotland; almost 5 million Canadians ticked the "Scottish origin" box in the most recent Canadian Census. Many Scottish families have friends or relatives in Canada. Who left Scotland? Why did they leave? What did they do when they got there? What was their impact on the developing nation? Thousands of Scots were forced from their homeland, while others chose to leave, seeking a better life. As individuals, families and communities, they braved the wild Atlantic Ocean, many crossing in cramped under-rationed ships, unprepared for the fierce Canadian winter. And yet Scots went on to lay railroads, found banks and exploit the fur trade, and helped form the political infrastructure of modern day Canada. This book follows the pioneers west from Nova Scotia to the prairie frontier and on to the Pacific coast. It examines the reasons why so many Scots left their land and families. The legacy of centuries of trade and communication still binds the two countries, and Scottish Canadians keep alive the traditions that crossed the Atlantic with their ancestors. REVIEW: ...meticulously researched and fluently written... it neatly charts the rise of a country without succumbing to sentimental myths. SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

The Golden Bridge
The Golden Bridge

Author: Marjorie Kohli

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2003-10-15

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 177070440X

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"To thousands of young people, emigration has been the golden bridge by which they have passed from an apparently hopeless childhood to lives of useful service and assured comfort, in this new land." - Mr. G. Bogue Smart, Inspector of British Immigrant Children and Receiving Homes, 1915 Many thousands of Canadians are descended from young immigrants transported to Canada from 1833 to 1939. Author Marjorie Kohli has meticulously documented the incredible story of the removal of thousands of "waifs and strays" and young men and women, primarily from the UK and Ireland. They braved the perilous voyage to an unknown future in Canada, ultimately being placed throughout the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec and westward as far as British Columbia. The most comprehensive resource of its kind, The Golden Bridge promises to be an indispensable tool for family researchers with a "home child" ancestor, and of interest to those unfamiliar with this aspect of Canadian history. This extensively researched book incorporates background detail on agencies and key organizers such as Maria Rye, Annie Macpherson, Thomas Barnardo and William Quarrier, along with lesser knowns including Ellinor Close and Charles Young. Marjorie Kohli is well known for her years of active involvement with juvenile and child migration issues. Supported by charts, passenger lists and archival visuals, The Golden Bridge is a must-read for genealogists and history buffs alike.