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A 5 page book report that summarizes Traill's experiences and impressions of Canadian life in the 1830s. No additional sources cited.
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and always enthralled by the beauty of Canada. However, it does appear that she does not let her innate enthusiasm diminish her accuracy as a reporter of North American life.
For example, when she first arrives at her destination, she has to remain on board ship due to quarantine laws, but describes what she can see of activities on shore
as "picturesque," with "stately form and gay trappings."1 Nevertheless, one of the ships officers soon dissuades Traill and her husband of this opinion as he states that, if they
were closer, they would find "every variety of disease, vice, poverty, filthy and famine-human misery in its most disgusting and maddening form."2 They move up river towards Quebec. However, once
again, they are not allowed to go ashore due to "pestilence" within the city.3 Traills account of her experiences thus far, that is, the voyage and her first views of
the Canadian landscape convey both the beauty of the vistas she perceived and their inherent dangers, as one can gather that hardship and disease were the constant companions of the
lands natural beauty, which Traill is very good at describing in lyrical detail. Throughout her account, the modern reader learns interesting details of Canadian life during this era.
For example, she is intrigued when the ship passes islands that have herd of cattle grazing on them. The captain explained that local farmers ferry the animals to the island
on flat-bottomed boats or swim them across, if possible, and leave them to graze, with someone from the farm canoeing out to milk them on a daily basis.4 In
Lower Canada, below Quebec, the land has a "wild and rugged aspect," but Traill comments on the increased fertility as the ship approaches Montreal and how the land surrounding this
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