In his seminal study of national identity, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson gives pride of place to the newspaper and novel as the print forms that ‘provided the technical means for “re-presenting” the kind of imagined community that is the nation’. The creole printman, producing his daily or weekly paper, and the newspaper reader, performing in ‘silent privacy’ a ceremony ‘replicated simultaneously by thousands … of others of whose existence he is confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion’, make possible the formation of the modern nation. So, too, the novel, tracing ‘the movement of a solitary hero through a sociological landscape … that fuses the world inside the novel with the world outside’, engenders the ‘national imagination’. This chapter considers another important print form that enabled British emigrants to North America to imagine themselves within a national community: the Canadian settler memoir. By associating the British-style colonial home with the newly emerging nation, settler memoirs offered an alternative mode of creating national identity – one that was material as well as conceptual, visual as well as verbal. Settler memoirs kept emigrants loyal to their cultural origins and assigned women settlers a crucial role in nation-building.