Sisters in the Wilderness (56 page)

Traill, Katharine Agnes Strickland (daughter),
125
,
181
,
186
,
260
,
283
,
338
,
346

Traill, Katharine Parr (granddaughter),
300
,
344

Traill, Mary Elizabeth (daughter) (Mrs. Thomas Muchall),
180
,
260
,

338
,
343

Traill, Mary Ellen Bridges (daughter),
180
,
234

Traill, Thomas: appointed justice of the peace,
120
; death,
260
; depression,
62
,
113
,
142
-
43
,
180
,
186
-
87
,
188
; desperate to leave backwoods,
125
-
26
; distant parent,
104
; emotional dependence,
62
,
113
; falls in love with Catharine,
45
; family background,
43
-
44
,
44
; homesickness,
113
-
14
; lack of political connections,
120
-
21
; meets disapproval of Stricklands,
45
-
46
; military career,
43
,
43
-
44
; money woes,
44
,
142
,
143
,
180
,
183
; and politics,
122
-
23
; previous marriage,
44
-
45
; relations with Catharine,
63
; relations with Susanna Moodie,
142
,
144
; squanders Catharine's family legacy,
110
; temperament,
44
,
45
,
62
; unable to find government job,
142
; volunteers to put down rebellion,
130
; emigration: Canada-mania,
46
; frontier life: ill-suited for,
74
,
78
; settling the land,
110
-
11
; takes up land grant,
79
-
80

Traill, Thomas Henry Strickland (son),
125
,
185
,
186
,
202
,
260
,
300

Traill, Walter John Strickland (son),
187
,
234
,
260
,
283
,
338
,
339

Traill, Walter (son, by first marriage),
45
,
114

Traill, William Edward (son),
181
,
187
,
234
,
260
,
283
,
338
,
339

Twenty-seven years in Canada
(Sam Strickland),
215
-
17
,
335

Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Stowe),
210

Upper Canada: backwoods,
69
; economic development,
118
-
19
; elections,
168
; government,
120
; home-grown literature,
197
;
immigration and settlement,
119
-
20
; periodicals,
74
,
196
-
97
; politics,
68
,
120
-
23
,
129
-
31
,
163
-
5
; society,
68
,
70
,
98
-
99
; travel,
229
-
30

Van Horn, Sir William,
345

Vickers, John Joseph,
235
,
305

Victoria District.
See also
Hastings County

Victoria, Queen,
131
,
175
,
248

Wales, Thomas,
40
,
71
,
85
,
86
,
214

Wallbridge, Lewis,
269

Warner, Ashton,
26

Wellington, Duke of,
5
,
177

Westove (Traill residence),
99
,
307
,
312
-
15
,
349

White, Gilbert,
288
,
301
,
333

William iv,
27

Wilson, Joseph,
196
-
97

Wolf Tower,
184
-
87
,
350

Wollstonecraft, Mary,
19
,
34

Wolseley, Rev. Henry Hulbert,
143

Women: attitude of English,
65
; opportunities for writers,
33
-
34
; social mores,
19

Woodhull, Victoria,
253

York,
41
,
68
.
See also
Toronto

Young, Patrick,
305