This work may have been influenced by letters received from her brother Sam Strickland
, who had already settled in Canada, and from published sources such as John Howison
's Sketches of Canada.
New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
332
Residence
Susanna Moodie
SM
and her family relocated to a bush farm north of Peterborough, Ontario, in part to be closer to her sister's
and brother's
homes.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
92, 97
Residence
Susanna Moodie
The Moodies bought some cleared farmland near Port Hope but had great difficulty evicting the former owners, the Harris family.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
She also edited relatives' work, including sister Catharine Parr Traill
's Canadian Crusoes and brother Samuel Strickland
's Twenty-seven years in Canada West; or, The Experience of an Early Settler.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
