Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Traill in recognition of her work as a naturalist, and later the Dominion Government recognized her services by presenting her with an island in the Otonabee River, rewards well deserved, on account of her many timely and useful publications. Mrs. Susanna Moodie was also a member of the gifted Strickland family, of 1SOS IfiFfS Reydon Hall, Suffolk, England. Mrs. Moodie and her sisters were educated by their father, a gentleman of wealth, refinement and good taste. He lost heavily by imprudently endorsing paper for a friend; the loss preyed on his mind to such an extent that he died, when Miss Susanna was only thirteen years old. Though she began writing for the public press when only fifteen, her work was well received. In 1831 she married John Wedder- burn Dunbar Moodie, a half-pay officer, 21st Fusiliers, and the following year they emigrated to Canada. On the farm they purchased, near Port Hope, they only remained a short time, afterwards moving into the unbroken bush ten miles north of Peterborough. Here, in acute form, they experienced the serious and aggravating difficulties which met the pioneer settlers in the magnificent forest of Upper Canada. There are not a few housekeepers, even yet, remaining in Upper Canada (Ontario), who can sympathetically in spirit share Mrs. Hoodie's bitter disappointment in her failure to acquire the art of making good bread from Canadian flour. They will find the story of this, and many other things besides, well told in Roughing It in the Bush, by Mrs. Moodie. In 1839 Mr. Moodie was appointed Sheriff of the County of Hastings, and the family removed to Belleville. In Flora Lindsay and Roughing It in the Bush the authoress relates the details about leaving one's native land, the uncertainties in regard to a new country, the s...