books.google.co.uk - Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired officer. The Blackwoods of Canada (1836), Catharine's epistolary narrative based on her experiences in the country north of Peterborough in the years immediately...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_backwoods_of_Canada.html?id=ERcZrymzJFwC&q=road&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe backwoods of Canada