Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains (Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, 2)

by Catharine Parr Traill, Rupert Schieder

This absorbing story about three children of Scottish and French origin who become lost on the Rice Lake Plains in the late eighteenth century provides the author with an opportunity to contemplate important themes of Canadian literature and identity.

Genres: School, Canada

384 pages, Paperback

Published September 15, 1986

About the author

Catharine Parr Strickland Traill was an English-Canadian author and naturalist who wrote about life as a settler in Canada.

Reviews

[Aibhlin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Describing Scenery, followed by racism. Also Indiana?? What??

[farheen · Rating 1 out of 5]

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
INDIANA??????????????

[Will · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great story from a Canadiana perspective. It is about the adventures of three teens who get lost in the wilds of Upper Canada in the 1800's and what they do to survive. As the title suggests, it is the Robinson Crusoe story set in Canada.

[alayah · Rating 1 out of 5]

racist. boring. “Indiana”?????

[Madison Evans · Rating 1 out of 5]

colonialism 101

[Sasha · Rating 2 out of 5]

the pocahontas 2 of novels

[Daphne · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book ruined my Saturday.

[Nghi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read for ENG352 Canadian Fiction. A nasty little piece of work that is an interesting window into the past that is still all too long despite being a children's novel.