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University of Western Ontario: Early Writing in Canada: Catharine Parr Traill
Excerpts of letters written by Catharine Parr Traill, which she collected and published, along with her journals, in The Backwoods of Canada (1836). In these excerpts, she writes about her arrival in Newfoundland and a journey to Quebec.
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Eye Witness to History: Captured by Indians, 1755
This article details the experience of one girl abducted by the Seneca Indians.
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University of Western Ontario: Early Writing in Canada: Jameson: Winter Studies
Excerpts from Irish-born British writer Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, a travelogue of her 1836 voyage to Canada.
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Msu: Captivity Narratives Bibliography
This bibliography of American captivity narratives is offered as part of a University of Michigan humanities electronic discussion group.
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Uwo: Early Writing in Canada Susannah Moodie
These are excerpts from Susannah Moodie's book 'Roughing it in the Bush'.
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Courts of Nova Scotia: Author on the Bench: Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Brief biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton comments on his dual careers as the writer/creator of Sam Slick and as a jurist.
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Ibiblio: 1492: An Ongoing Vogage: Inventing America
Archived exhibition reveals how European writers and mapmakers thought about America during the Age of Discovery. Describes the allegorical images Europeans sometimes used to portray America and features the Gutierrez map, drawn in 1562,...