Moodie, Susanna,  1803-1885 <br/><br/>
Roughing It in the Bush 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughing_it_in_the_Bush  Release date is 2003-08-01 
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<br/><br/> "Roughing It in the Bush" by Susanna Moodie is a settler's account published in 1852. Written for British subjects considering immigration, this memoir chronicles Moodie's experiences homesteading in Upper Canada during the 1830s. Through vivid sketches, she exposes the harsh realities of pioneer life—backbreaking labor, crude living conditions, and social tensions—that contrasted sharply with the utopian promises used to lure middle-class emigrants. Her frank, often darkly humorous narrative reveals the profound gap between immigrant dreams and Canadian frontier truths. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Moodie, Susannah, 1803-1885 Ontario -- Description and travel Frontier and pioneer life -- Ontario Pioneers -- Ontario -- Biography Women pioneers -- Ontario -- Biography 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F1001