Title Reading the diaries of Henry Trent : the everyday life of a Canadian Englishman, 1842-1898 / J.I. Little

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource Series McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 14 McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 14. Contents Boyhood and Youth -- Emerging Manhood, Part 1 -- Emerging Manhood, Part 2 -- Manhood -- Old Age Summary "The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent are not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly spelled, the fifteen surviving volumes of Henry Trent's hitherto unexamined diaries are nevertheless a treasure for the social and cultural historian. Henry Trent was born in England in 1826, the son of a British naval officer. When he was still a boy, his father decided to begin a new life as a landed gentleman and moved the family to Lower Canada. At the age of sixteen Trent began writing in a diary which he maintained, intermittently, for more than fifty years. As a lonely youth he narrates days spent hunting and trapping in the woods owned by his father. On the threshold of manhood and in search of a vocation, he writes about his experiences in London and then on Vancouver Island during the gold rush. And finally, as the father of a large family, he describes the daily struggle to make ends meet on the farm he inherited in Quebec's lower St Francis valley. As it follows Trent through the different stages of his long life, Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent explores the complexities of class and colonialism, gender roles within the rural family, and the transition from youth to manhood to old age. The diaries provide a rare opportunity to read the thoughts and follow the experiences of a man who who, like many Victorian-era immigrants of the privileged class, struggled to adapt to the Canadian environment during the rise of the industrial age."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Canada Emigration & Immigration English Farm life Farmers General History Immigrants Québec Rural conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE Social classes Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2021) Subject Trent, Henry, 1826-1906 -- Diaries English -- Québec (Province) -- Biography Immigrants -- Québec (Province) -- Biography Farmers -- Québec (Province) -- Biography Farm life -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century Social classes -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration English Farm life Farmers Immigrants Rural conditions Social classes Québec (Province) -- Rural conditions Québec Genre/Form diaries. Biographies Diaries History Diaries. Biographies. Journaux intimes. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Container of (work): Trent, Henry, 1826-1906. Diaries. Selections ISBN 9780228007500 022800750X 9780228007494 0228007496

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