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as a means of support, 124-25; widowhood: affection for Susanna, 337; death, 347; household, 313-14; social and family life, 282-85; Westcove residence, 382-383

Traill, James (son), 82, 186, 201-2, 234, 260, 261

Traill, John (son, by first marriage), 45, 114

Traill, Katharine Agnes Strickland (daughter), 125, 181, 186, 260, 283, 338, 346

Traill, Katharine Parr (granddaughter), 300, 344

Traill, Mary Elizabeth (daughter) (Mrs. Thomas Muchall), 180, 260,

338, 343

Traill, Mary Ellen Bridges (daughter), 180, 234

Traill, Thomas: appointed justice of the peace, 120; death, 260; depression, 62, 113, 142-43, 180, 186-87, 188; desperate to leave backwoods, 125-26; distant parent, 104; emotional dependence, 62, 113; falls in love with Catharine, 45; family background, 43-44, 44; homesickness, 113-14; lack of political connections, 120-21; meets disapproval of Stricklands, 45-46; military career, 43, 43-44; money woes, 44, 142, 143, 180, 183; and politics, 122-23; previous marriage, 44-45; relations with Catharine, 63; relations with Susanna Moodie, 142, 144; squanders Catharine’s family legacy, 110; temperament, 44, 45, 62; unable to find government job, 142; volunteers to put down rebellion, 130; emigration: Canada-mania, 46; frontier life: ill-suited for, 74, 78; settling the land, 110-11; takes up land grant, 79-80

Traill, Thomas Henry Strickland (son), 125, 185, 186, 202, 260, 300

Traill, Walter John Strickland (son), 187, 234, 260, 283, 338, 339

Traill, Walter (son, by first marriage), 45, 114

Traill, William Edward (son), 181, 187, 234, 260, 283, 338, 339

Twenty-seven years in Canada (Sam Strickland), 215-17, 335

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 210

Upper Canada: backwoods, 69; economic development, 118-19; elections, 168; government, 120; home-grown literature, 197; immigration and settlement, 119-20; periodicals, 74, 196-97; politics, 68, 120-23, 129-31, 163-5; society, 68, 70, 98-99; travel, 229-30

Van Horn, Sir William, 345

Vickers, John Joseph, 235, 305

Victoria District. See also Hastings County

Victoria, Queen, 131, 175, 248

Wales, Thomas, 40, 71, 85, 86, 214

Wallbridge, Lewis, 269

Warner, Ashton, 26

Wellington, Duke of, 5, 177

Westove (Traill residence), 99, 307, 312-15, 349

White, Gilbert, 288, 301, 333

William iv, 27

Wilson, Joseph, 196-97

Wolf Tower, 184-87, 350

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 19, 34

Wolseley, Rev. Henry Hulbert, 143

Women: attitude of English, 65; opportunities for writers, 33-34; social mores, 19

Woodhull, Victoria, 253

York, 41, 68. See also Toronto

Young, Patrick, 305