Susanna Moodie 1803-1885

There are two plaques about this woman.
The first is in the County of Hastings.
The second is in the County of Peterborough.
Both can be seen on this page.

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2009

Plaque Location

The County of Hastings
The City of Belleville
In front of Susanna Moodie Cottage
at 114 Bridge Street West at Sinclair Street

Coordinates: N 44 09.689 W 77 23.604

Plaque Text

Born in England, Mrs. Moodie immigrated to Upper Canada with her husband in 1832. They farmed near Cobourg for two years then moved to the wooded Rice Lake area near the frontier of the colony before settling in the more urban environment of Belleville in 1840. Member of a noted literary family, she became a leading author of the pre-Confederation period and her poems and short stories appeared in journals in Canada and England. Her two autobiographical books, Roughing it in the Bush (1852) and Life in the Clearings (1853), have become Canadian classics.

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted December, 2010

Plaque Location

The County of Peterborough
The Township of Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield
In Lakefield, in a park on the southeast corner of
Water Street and Bridge Street

Coordinates: N 44 25.327 W 78 16.370

Plaque Text

This talented writer, the wife of a retired British army officer, emigrated with her husband and daughter to Upper Canada in 1832. In 1834 they moved to a nearby farm lot to be near her brother, Samuel Strickland, and her sister Catherine Parr Traill. The following six years of unsuccessful effort to develop a wilderness property provided the theme for her best-known work "Roughing it in the Bush". In 1840 they moved to Belleville. There the Moodies edited and were principal contributors to the short lived "Victorian Magazine" and Susanna wrote many novels and poems. Her contributions were for years the mainstay of "The Literary Garland", a Montreal publication.

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