Catharine Parr Traill was born in 1802 in Surrey, England. The older sister of Susanna Moodie, Traill began her writing career with children's books. In 1832 she married Thomas Traill, a retired officer of the Napoleonic Wars. Soon after their marriage they left for Canada, settling near Peterborough, Ontario. Traill is the author of a number of books, including Canadian Crusoes, The Female Emigrant's Guide, and The Canadian Settler's Guide, but is best known for The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, an important source of information about early Canada. Traill died in 1899 in Lakefield, Ontario.
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