"For myself, though I can easily enter into the feelings of the poet and the enthusiastic lover of the wild and the wonderful of historic lore, I can yet make myself very happy and contented in this country.  If its volume of history is yet a blank, that of Nature is open, and eloquently marked by the finger of God; and from its pages I can extract a thousand sources of amusement and interest when ever I take my walks in the forest or by the borders of the lakes."

~ The Backwoods of Canada Catharine Parr Traill Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1929.