The letters and sketches of Anne Langton collected in A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: The Journals of Anne Langton (1950), edited and published by her greatnephew, H. H. Langton, are a vivid record of the daily life of an immigrant family of means living on a farm in Sturgeon Lake, Ontario, from 1837 to 1846. With her father, her mother, and Aunt Alice, her mother's sister, Langton came to Canada to join her brother John, who had immigrated and taken up land in 1833. She had been born on 24 June 1804 at Farfield Hall in Yorkshire, the second child of Thomas and Ellen Currer Langton. Her father, for twenty years a merchant trading out of Russia, for another half-dozen years a traveler in Europe with his family, decided in 1834, because of business reverses, to join his son John in Upper Canada. Another son, William, remained in England, the successful manager of a bank...