Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 – August 27, 1865) was a
politician, judge, and author who lived in the British Colony of Nova Scotia.
He was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada and
played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia prior to its entry into
Confederation.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Haliburton was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the son of William Hersey
Otis Haliburton, a lawyer, judge and political figure, and Lucy Chandler Grant.
His mother died when he was a small child, and his father remarried when he was
seven, giving him as stepmother Susanna Davis, the daughter of Michael
Francklin, who had been Nova Scotia's Lieutenant Governor.[1] He attended
University of King's College in Windsor and became a lawyer, opening a practice
in Annapolis Royal, the former capital of the colony.
Haliburton became a noted local businessman and a judge, but his great
fame came from his writing. He wrote a number of books on history, politics,
and farm improvement. He rose to international fame with his Clockmaker serial,
which first appeared in the Novascotian and was later published in book form
throughout the British Empire. The books recounted the humorous adventures of
the character Sam Slick and became popular light reading.
From 1826 to 1829, Haliburton represented Annapolis County in the Nova
Scotia House of Assembly.
Haliburton retired from law and moved to England in 1856. In that same
year he married Sarah Harriet Owen Williams. In 1859, Haliburton was elected
the Member of Parliament for Launceston, Cornwall as a member of the Conservative
minority; he did not stand for re-election in 1865.
Haliburton received an honorary degree from Oxford for service to
literature and continued writing until his death on 27 August 1865, at his home
in Isleworth, near London.[2])
Family[edit]
Mrs Louisa Haliburton (née Neville) first wife of Thomas Chandler
Haliburton
Daughter Amelia Gilpin by William Notman
While in England, Thomas Chandler Haliburton met Louisa Neville,
daughter of Captain Laurence Neville, of the Eighth Light Dragoons, whom he
married in 1816 and brought back to Nova Scotia. Her story before marriage is
related in the "Haliburton Chaplet," edited by their son, Robert
Grant Haliburton (Toronto: 1899). The couple had two sons and five daughters:
Susannah Lucy Anne, later Weldon, 1817–1899, ceramic collector[1]
Mrs. A. F. Haliburton
Mrs. Bainbridge Smith
Amelia (Jul 25, 1829-Jan 14, 1902), landscape artist, married the Rev.
Edwin Gilpin, Dean of Nova Scotia, in 1849; the couple had four sons and one
daughter,[3] including Edwin Gilpin (1850–1907), a mining engineer and
author[1]
Robert Grant Haliburton, Q.C., D.C.L., 1831–1901, lawyer, author, and
anthropologist[1]
Arthur (1832–1907), later 1st Baron Haliburton, G.C.B., civil servant
Laura Charlotte, artist, married William Cunard, son of the shipping
magnate Sir Samuel Cunard at Windsor, Nova Scotia, 30 December 1851; three
sons, one daughter. Exhibited her pictures at the Royal Academy, the Gallery of
British Artists, and at other institutions in London.
Louisa died in 1840, and was buried at Windsor. Haliburton married a
second time in 1856, to Sarah Harriet Owen Williams, and died in England.[3]
Legacy[edit]
Haliburton was eager to promote immigration to the colonies of British
North America. One of his first written works was an emigrant's guide to Nova
Scotia published in 1823, A General Description of Nova Scotia; Illustrated by
a New and Correct Map[4] The community of Haliburton, Nova Scotia was named
after him.[5] In Ontario, Haliburton County, is named after Haliburton in
recognition of his work as the first chair of the Canadian Land and Emigration
Company.
In 1884, faculty and students at his alma mater founded a literary
society in honour of the College's most celebrated man of letters. The
Haliburton Society, still active at King's College, Halifax, is now the
longest-standing collegial literary society in the Commonwealth of Nations or
North America.
His comment of him remembering "playing hurley on the ice" is
the first known reference to hockey in Canada and is the basis of Windsor's
claim to being the town that fathered hockey.
A memorial to Thomas and his first wife was erected in 1902 in Christ
Church, Windsor, by four of their children: Laura Cunard, Lord Haliburton, and
two surviving sisters.
Nova Scotian artist William Valentine painted Haliburton's portrait.
Works[edit]
A General Description of Nova Scotia - 1823
An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia - 1829
The Clockmaker - 1836
The Clockmaker, 2nd Series - 1838
The Bubbles of Canada - 1839
A Reply to the Report of the Earl of Durham - 1839
The Letter-Bag of the Great Western - 1840
The Clockmaker, 3rd Series - 1840
The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England - 1843
The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England, 2nd Series - 1844
The Old Judge, Or Life in a Colony - 1849
The English in America - 1851
Rule and Misrule in English America - 1851
Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances - 1853
The Americans at Home; or, Byways, Backwoods, and Prairies - 1855
Nature and Human Nature - 1855
The Season-Ticket* - 1860
Maxims of an Old Stager Not by Haliburton, but pseudonym may be
"Sam Slick"
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d Cogswell, F. (2000). Haliburton, Thomas Chandler.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. John English, Ed. (English version).
Retrieved on: 2012-02-08.
Jump up ^ Richard A. Davies, Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas
Chandler Haliburton (2005)
^ Jump up to: a b Morgan, Henry James Types of Canadian women and of
women who are or have been connected with Canada : (Toronto, 1903) [1]
Jump up ^ Richard Davies, Inventing Sam Slick, pp. 28-29; Original
online text: A General Description of Nova Scotia; Illustrated by a New and
Correct Map (Halifax: Printed at the Royal Acadian School, 1823) Internet
Archives
Jump up ^
https://archive.org/stream/placenamesofprov00browuoft#page/62/mode/2up
External links[edit]
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Haliburton House Museum Museum dedicated to the life, writings and time
period of T. C. Haliburton. Part of the Nova Scotia Museum.
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Chandler
Haliburton
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Works by Thomas Chandler Haliburton at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Thomas Chandler Haliburton at Internet Archive
Works by Thomas Chandler Haliburton at LibriVox (public domain
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Photos of 1937 plaque by Historic Sites and Monuments Board
The Haliburton Club.
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