TRAILL, Catherine Parr Strickland, Canadian author, born in Kent, England, 9 January, 1802. She is a member of the Strickland family, was educated at her home, Ryden Hall, Suffolk, and began to write when she was fifteen years of age. Her first book of tales for children was published in London in 1818, and she wrote many other juvenile works, which were published without her name, and commanded a large sale. In 1832 she married Lieutenant Thomas Traill, of the Royal Scotch fusiliers, and soon afterward they emigrated to Canada and settled in Douro, Ontario, in 1833. She subsequently lived at Peterborough, Rice Lake, and is now, and has been for many years, residing at Lakefield. Since going to Canada she has contributed to "Chambers's Journal," "Sharpe's London Magazine," and other periodicals, and has published, among other works, "The Backwoods of Canada" (London, 1835) ; "Canadian Crusoes," edited by Agnes Strickland (New York, 1852) ; "Ramblings in the Canadian Forest" (1854)" "Stories of the Canadian Forests" (New York, 1856) . "Lady Mary and her Nurse, or a Peep into Canadian Forests" (London, 1856) ; "Afar in the Forest, or Pictures of Li[e and Scenery in the Wilds of Canada" (London, 1869); and "Studies of Plant Life, or Floral Gleanings by Forest, Lake, and Plain" (Ottawa, 1884). The illustrations in the last work are by Mrs. Agnes F. Chamberlaine, a daughter of Mrs. Susanna Moodie, who was a sister of Mrs. Traill. For some time past Mrs. Traill has been engaged in writing "A Family Record."