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Catharine Parr Traills The Female Emigrants Guide

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241Catharine Parr Traills The Female Emigrants Guide

Cooking with a Canadian Classic

Edited by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas

COOKING WITH A CANADIAN CLASSIC

Edited by

Nathalie Cooke

and Fiona Lucas

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Catharine Parr Traills The female emigrants guide : cooking with a Canadian classic / edited by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas.

(Carleton library series ; 241)

Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued in print and electronic formats.

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ISBN 978-0-7735-4931-9 (ePDF).

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1. Traill, Catharine Parr, 18021899. Canadian settlers guide. 2. Cooking Canada History 19th century. 3. Cooking, Canadian History 19th century. 4. Food Canada History 19th century. 5. Canada Social life and customs 19th century. 6. Dinners and dining Canada History 19th century. 7. Kitchens Canada History 19th century. 8. Cookbooks. I. Cooke, Nathalie, editor II. Lucas, Fiona, editor III. Series: Carleton library series ; 241

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We are grateful to a wide range of friends and colleagues who helped us prepare the materials for this new edition of Catharine Parr Traills The Female Emigrants Guide.

Our thanks to Renaud Roussel for his close reading and attention to detail, and to Iain Childerhose, whose resourcefulness and interest in photography and culinary experimentation brought an additional dimension to the volume. Iains summer internship working on this project at McGill University in 2015 was funded by the inaugural Len Blum Award. Our thanks to Len Blum for the funding support and to the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, which administers the award. Our appreciation too for research assistance from tienne Gratton and Saundra Tobman, as well as insights into the influence of First Nations traditions and foodways on backwoods settlers from colleagues Margery Fee and Toby Morantz, and feedback on terminology from Glyne Piggott and Jacques Leroux. This project was supported by McGills wonderful library staff who helped us ferret out historical materials (Raynald Lepage, Richard Virr, Lonnie Weatherby), source digital images (Greg Houston, Sarah Severson), think through questions about mapping Traills world (Deena Yanofsky), and resolve questions of copyright (Jillian Thom). Ryan Kirkby of the University of Guelphs Archival and Special Collections and Elizabeth Ridolfo at the University of Torontos Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library helped us source illustrations, for which we are very grateful. Erin Yanota provided invaluable editing support as we prepared the manuscript for initial submission.

We are especially grateful to two anonymous reviewers who offered thoughtful and immensely helpful feedback. The final manuscript is far stronger thanks to their generous comments. It has also benefitted enormously from the careful attention and thoughtful editing of Joan McGilvray.