A few of the books that were used while researching this story

All of Catharine’s works plus her family’s.

I Bless You In My Heart: Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill edited by Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins and Michael A. Peterman (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996)

Lady of the Backwoods by Sara Eaton (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969)

Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill by Charlotte Gray (Toronto: Penguin Books Canada, 1999)

Catharine Parr Traill and Her Works by Carl Ballstadt (Downsview: ECW Press, 1983)

Gentle Pioneers: Five Nineteenth-Century Canadians by Audrey Y. Morris (Toronto and London: Hodder and Stoughton 1968)

Nelson’s Falls to Lakefield: A History of the Village by Bob Delledonne (Lakefield, Ontario, Canada, Lakefield Historical Society, 1999)

“My Old Friend the Otonabee”: Glimpses by Samuel Strickland, Catharine Parr Traill & Susanna Moodie by Michael Peterman (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Peterborough Historical Society 1999)

Through the Years In Douro, Peterborough County, Canada 1822-1967 edited by J. Alex Edmison, Q.C. (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: A.D. Newson Co. 1967, third revised edition 1978)

House Calls: The True Story of a Pioneer Doctor by Ainslie Manson, illustrated by Mary Jane Gerber (Toronto: Groundwood Books 2001)

From Douro to Dublin: The Letters of Frances Stewart by Joyce C. Lewis (Peterborough: Peterborough Historical Society, occasional paper 14, 1994)

Sandford Fleming: No Better Inheritance by Jean Murray Cole (Peterborough: Peterborough Historical Society, occasional paper 11, Nov. 1990)

Peterborough in the Hutchison-Fleming Era 1845-1846 by Jean Murray Cole (Peterborough: Peterborough Historical Society, occasional paper 5, Sept. 1984

Kingston Penitentiary: The First Hundred and Fifty Years 1835-1985 by Dennis Curtis and others (The Correctional Service of Canada, Ottawa, 1985)