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CHAPTER 16
My principal sources for information about Orange Order activities in 1860 were Donald Creighton’s John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain; Gerald M. Craig’s Upper Canada, The Formative Years; and Early Travellers in the Canada 1791-1867 (1955) edited by Gerald M. Craig. Audrey Y. Morris (The Gentle Pioneers) has produced the best account of John Moodie’s travails as sheriff.
CHAPTER 17
No aspect of the Strickland sisters’ achievements has been more neglected than Catharine’s interest in natural history. Two articles that explore Catharine’s activities are “‘Splendid Anachronism,’ The Record of Catharine Parr Traill’s Struggles as an Amateur Botanist in Nineteenth Century Canada” by Michael Peterman (Re(dis)covering Our Foremothers, edited by McMullen, 1990) and “Science in Canada’s Backwoods” by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley (Natural Eloquence, Women Reinscribe Science, edited by Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Schteir, 1997). Another essay in the Gates and Schteir volume was also useful: Stephen Jay Gould’s “The Invisible Woman.” For background on science in nineteenth-century Canada, I read Suzanne Zeller’s Inventing Canada, Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation (1987). Information on Catharine’s botanist friends comes from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. I was also helped by The Pioneer Woman by Elizabeth Thompson (1991) and “Catharine Parr Traill and the Picturesque Landscape,” a paper prepared for the Lakefield Literary Festival in 1998 by Elizabeth Hopkins.
CHAPTER 18
There are marvellous local histories and early photographs of the Stony Lake area. Among those I used were Enid Mallory’s Kawartha, Living on These Lakes (1991); Jean Murray Cole’s Origins: The History of Dummer Township (1993); James T. Angus’s A Respectable Ditch: A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway, 1833-1920 (1988); Katharine N. Hooke’s From Campsite to Cottage, Early Stoney Lake (Peterborough Historical Society, 1992); and Richard Tatley’s Steamboating on the Trent-Severn (1978). The quotations from James Ewing Ritchie come from his travel book To Canada with Emigrants (1885).
CHAPTERS 19 AND 20
For a sparkling social history of late-nineteenth-century Ottawa, there is nothing to compare with The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier by Sandra Gwyn (1984). The quotation from Maria Thorburn was kindly sent to me by her great-great-granddaughter, Jane Monaghan. All the other family information in these pages comes from the Traill Family Collection in the National Archives of Canada and the Patrick Hamilton Ewing Collection in the National Library of Canada.
I found additional useful material in Ottawa, An Illustrated History by John H. Taylor, and in “Making Science Beautiful: The Central Experimental Farm, 1886–1939” by Julie Harris and Jennifer Mueller (Ontario History, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 2, June 1997). Maime Fitzgibbon’s A Trip to Manitoba, or Roughing It on the Line, appeared in 1880 and has not been reprinted.
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