author
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
1802–1899
A sharp-eyed chronicler of early Canadian life, she turned the hardships and beauty of settlement into books that still feel vivid today. Her writing blends practical experience, love of nature, and a gift for noticing the small details that make a place real.
9 Audiobooks
In the Forest; Or, Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Woods of Canada: A Tale
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Lost in the Backwoods: A Tale of the Canadian Forest
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Lady Mary and Her Nurse; Or, A Peep into the Canadian Forest
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Little Downy: The History of a Field-Mouse
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Ansiedlungen in den Urwäldern von Canada. Ein Wegweiser für Auswandrer nach Amerika von einer Emigrantin.
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
North American Wild Flowers
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
The Tell-Tale: An Original Collection of Moral and Amusing Stories
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
About the author
Born in England in 1802, Catharine Parr Traill became one of the best-known early writers about life in Canada. She published from a young age, and after marrying Thomas Traill in 1832 she moved to Upper Canada, where her firsthand experience of settler life shaped much of her work.
Her best-known book, The Backwoods of Canada (1836), introduced readers to the realities of clearing land, building a home, and adapting to a new country. She also wrote popular children's fiction, including Canadian Crusoes, and earned lasting respect as a naturalist for her detailed writing about Canadian plants and the landscape around her.
Traill spent most of her long life in what is now Ontario and died in 1899. Today she is remembered as an important early Canadian author whose work preserves both the everyday challenges of pioneer life and a deep, observant affection for the natural world.