Susanna Moodie. Educated at home. Began to write at an
early age, her first volume of stories for children being published in
1818. In 1832 married Lieutenant Thomas Traill of the Royal Scotch
Fusileers, and some months later they removed to Canada. Most of her
books were written in Canada, and embody her experiences in the
backwoods, and her intimate studies of plant life. =Bib.=: Works: _Plant
Life in Canada_; _Canadian Wild Flowers_; _Canadian Crusoes_; _Pearls
and Pebbles_, with biog. sketch by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon. For biog.,
_see_ Morgan, _Cel. Can._; MacMurchy, _Canadian Literature_.

=Transcontinental Railway.= =B= Members of British government in 1862
favourable to, except Gladstone, 143. _See also_ Railways.

=Transcript.= Newspaper published at Montreal. =Index=: =B= Opposes
annexation of North-West Territories, 218. =BL= Denounces La
Fontaine-Baldwin government, 141.

=Transportation.= =B= Roads in Upper Canada in 1834, 54; improvement of,
advocated by George Brown, 61; Hincks and the Grand Trunk, 64. =S=
Difficulty and cost of, in early times, 109. =BL= Steamboat and stage
travel in 1839, 74-75; improvement of inland navigation provided for in
government programme in 1841, 89; interests advanced under second La
Fontaine-Baldwin ministry, 282, 286, 287, 301-302; 337. =E= Vigorous
policy of La Fontaine-Baldwin government, 96-101; and of Hincks-Morin
ministry, 114-116. _See also_ Railways; Canals; Roads.

=Trayes.= =S= Baptist deacon, teaches school at Port Rowan, 167.

=Traytorrens, Captain.= =Hd= Correspondent of Haldimand's, 315.

=Treaties.= _See_ Aix-la-Chapelle; Ashburton; Jay's; Paris; St.
Germain-en-Laye; Ryswick; Breda; Utrecht; Suze; Versailles; Oregon;
Washington.

=Tregatin.= =Ch= Indian, brings news of Kirke's arrival, 176.

=Trent Affair.= Took place in November, 1861, when Captain C. Wilkes of
the United States navy intercepted the British mail steamer _Trent_
sailing from Havana, and arrested two commissioners from the Confederate
States who were passengers, and who were accredited to France. They were
conveyed to the United States and imprisoned in Boston. The affair
caused great excitement; war between Great Britain and the United States
seemed imminent, and was averted only by the release of the two
commissioners on the demand of Great Britain in January, 1862. =Index=:
=C= Canada's connection with, leads to reorganization of militia, 87.
=T= Helped along Intercolonial Railway proj