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religion, 25-26; and spiritualism, 244-52, 255-56; temperament, 11, 14-15; view of North Americans, 98-99; childhood: birth, 7; bond between Catharine and, 18; defiant and impulsive behaviour, 14-15; courtship, marriage, and motherhood: difficult relations with own children, 219-20, 274-75, 310-11; falls in love, 31; loss of little Johnnie, 162-63; maternal role, 105; pregnancies, 39, 103-4, 137; relations with John, 105, 135-36, 219, 276-80; wedding, 38; emigration: Atlantic crossing, 50, 60; first impressions of Canada, 58-59; loneliness, 90; and plans to live in South Africa, 32; psychological scars, 50; reservation about Canada, 42; travelling party, 51; frontier life: at Lake Katchawanooka, 100-3; care packages from home, 126, 182, 186; daily work, 87-88, 105-6; family reunion, 1-2, 94-101; finding extra sources of income, 137; first impressions, 72-74, 83-96, 98-100; Hamilton Township home, 84-93; help of neighbours, 141-42; homesickness, 92, 101; loneliness, 136, 144, 146-47; managing farm and family alone, 137, 138-42; meals, 107-8; poverty, 89, 123-24, 126-27, 140; rosy expectations, 67-70; social life, 106-7; travel, 94-96; literary work and career: constraints in Canada, 88-90; contributions to Literary Garland, 159, 198-99, 224; criticisms of her work, 224-25; early works, 24-25; editorship of The Victoria Magazine, 199-203; hunger for fame, 27; income from writing, 205, 210, 224, 225, 240; and John Lovell, 159-60; Life in the Clearings, 221-23; recognition, 173; reviews of Roughing It, 217-19; ridicules editor of Belleville Intelligencer, 170-72; rising star, 33-36; rivalry with Agnes, 24-25, 27; Roughing It in the Bush, 204-10; search for publishing outlets, 89-90; sense of professionalism, 197; uncertainties of bluestocking future, 37; writing as a form of release, 146; writing as a means of support, 124; widowhood: affection of Catharine, 316-18, 320; death, 321; last days, 319-321; moodiness, 315-16; under one roof with Catharine, 312-15

Mount Ararat (Traill residence), 187

Murney, Edmund, 167-68

Murray, Louisa, 198

Narrative of the Campaign of 1814, A (John Moodie), 39

Native peoples, 78, 108-10, 141, 191

Natural history societies, 289

Nelson, Thomas, 193, 290

Newton, Sir Isaac, 5, 19

North American Magazine, 124

Northern Whig, The, 335

Oaklands (Traill residence), 187-88, 258-59, 350

Observer (London), 218

Ockerman, Dunham, 262

O’Hare, John, 249

Orange Order, 168, 264, 268-69

Ottawa, 266, 323-24

Ousterhouse, Elizabeth, 245

Palladium, The, 136

Papineau, Louis-Joseph, 130

Parker, Thomas, 158, 168, 262

Pearls and Pebbles (Catharine Parr Traill), 341-42

Peterborough, 76, 229, 230

Peterborough Volunteers, 130

Peterman, Michael, 198

Pope-Hennessy, Una, 176

Prescott, 67

Prince, Mary, 26, 38

Pringle, Margaret, 34

Pringle, Thomas, 23, 25, 34, 38, 252

Pursch, Frederick, 286

Putnam, George, 210

Queen’s Own Regiment, 135

Rackham, Katherine, 213

Rebellion of 1837, 129-31

Reid, Robert, 39-40, 76

Reydon Hall, 10-11, 336-37

Rice Lake, 78, 229, 230, 349

Richardson, John, 197

Rideau Hall, 326-29

Ritchie, Andrew, 318

Ritchie, James, 318-19, 324

Robinson, John Beverley, 122

Ross, George Mclean, 310

Ross, Robbie, 163

Rottenburg, Baron de, 147

Roughing It in the Bush (Susanna Moodie), 204-10, 217-19

Rous, Frederick, 309-10

Rowley, 61

Royal Bounty Fund, 343-46

Royal Literary Fund, 270

Russell, Eliza (Mrs. Dunbar Moodie), 274-75

Russell, Julia (Mrs. Donald Moodie), 274-75, 310-11

Russell, Nellie (Mrs. Robert Moodie), 308-9, 310

Ryerson, Egerton, 323

Salutin, Rick, xiii Sangster, Charles, 197

Saville (Traill residence), 180, 183

Scenes and Adventures as a Soldier and Settler (John Moodie), 270

Seaton, Emily, 85

Seaton, Roswell, 85

Shairp, Alexander, 106

Shairp, Emilia, 106, 128, 141

Sharpe’s London Magazine, 192

Shields, Carol, xiii

Shirreff, Patrick, 77

Smith, Goldwin, 341-42

South Africa, 30-31, 34

Southwold, 12

Spectator (London), 124

Spiritualism, 241-57

Spiritual Telegraph, 250

Stanley, Baron of Preston, 340

Stewart, Frances, 80-81, 107, 144, 174, 188,