The Backwoods of Canada - Catharine Parr Strickland Traill - Bog

AMONG the numerous works on Canada that have been published within the last ten years, with emigration for their leading theme, there are few, if any, that give information regarding the domestic economy of a settler's life, sufficiently minute to prove a faithful guide to the person on whose responsibility the whole comfort of a family depends- the mistress, whose department it is "to haud the house in order."