I have clearly spent too much time studying Canadian history. That came WAY too easily.

[chandri]

The Lamppost Book is based around a journal that the protagonists find, which leads them on madcap adventure. Obviously this required me to actually write parts of the journal, and in the course of this, I needed a reason why a young woman of good breeding and a talent for poetry might travel to the wilderness in the late 1890s

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[dragonfly13]

Branching out might be good for you, and expand your abilities as a writer, no? Why get set in one idea and not let the book go where it wants? Besides, lots of opportunity there for fun researching.

[dragonbat2006]

Hmmm... it's a few years before your setting, but it might be worth it to look at the writings of Catherine Parr Trail and Susannah Moodie.