Canadian Crusoes:

A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains

McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1986 - Poetry - 324 pages

This absorbing story about three children of Scottish and French origin who become lost on the Rice Lake Plains in the late eighteenth century provides the author with an opportunity to contemplate important themes of Canadian literature and identity.

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A tale of resourceful youngsters who survive being lost in the Canadian wilderness. This volume is a modern reprint of the first edition, which was published in London in 1852.
American publisher C.S. Francis brought out a pirated edition later the same year (the 1853 date on his title page notwithstanding), which added "The" to the title. The first printing of the Francis edition lists Billin & Bros. as the stereotypers. Although the Billin colophon does not appear in the six subsequent printings of the pirated edition, all seven were likely printed from the same set of plates.
The Billins are referenced twice in this modern reprint: in the editor's introduction, and in a list of editions of the text.
The pirate edition, "The Canadian Crusoes," is among the various Billin printing and stereotyping jobs catalogued in "Bibliotheca Probata." The Billins also worked on pirated American editions of books by two of Traill's sisters.

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Abbreviations	ix

Editors Introduction	xvii

Dedication from the 1852 Hall Virtue Edition	lix

Canadian Crusoes 1	47

Explanatory Notes	255

Bibliographical Description of Authoritative	273

Published Versions of the Text	283

Emendations in Copytext	289

Lineend Hyphenated Compounds in Copytext	295

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About the author (1986)

Catherine Parr Traill was a Canadian author, born in Kent, England, on January 9, 1802. She was a member of the Strickland family, and educated at her home at Ryden Hall, Suffolk. She began to write when she was fifteen years of age. Her first book a children's book, was published in London in 1818. She wrote many other juvenile works, which were published without her name, and sold very well. In 1832 she married Lieutenant Thomas Traill, a Scotsman, and soon afterward they emigrated to Canada and settled in Douro, Ontario, in 1833. She subsequently lived at Peterborough, Rice Lake, and at Lakefield. After arriving in Canada she contributed to "Chambers's Journal," "Sharpe's London Magazine," and other periodicals, and published, among other works, "The Backwoods of Canada" (London, 1835) ; "Canadian Crusoes," (New York, 1852) ; "Ramblings in the Canadian Forest" (1854)" "Stories of the Canadian Forests" (New York, 1856) . "Lady Mary and her Nurse, or a Peep into Canadian Forests" (London, 1856) ; "Afar in the Forest, or Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Wilds of Canada" (London, 1869); and "Studies of Plant Life, or Floral Gleanings by Forest, Lake, and Plain" (Ottawa, 1884). Catherine Parr Traill died in 1899

Bibliographic information

Title	Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains Issue 2 of Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts Series, Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts Ottawa Volume 2 of Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts series: Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts
Author	Catherine Parr Strickland Traill
Editor	Rupert Schieder
Edition	2, reprint
Publisher	McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1986
ISBN	0773573410, 9780773573413
Length	324 pages
Subjects	Poetry › Canadian Poetry / Canadian

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