1842 Bartlett print CANADA: RESIDENCE OF JUDGE HALIBURTON, WINDSOR, NOVA SCOTIA
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1842 Bartlett print CANADA: RESIDENCE OF JUDGE HALIBURTON, WINDSOR, NOVA SCOTIA. Nice view titledThe Residence of Judge Haliburton (Author of Sam Slick), from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, approximate size with margins is 27 x 21 cm. Haliburton, Thomas Chandler. Canada116 1842 Bartlett print CANADA: RESIDENCE OF JUDGE HALIBURTON, WINDSOR, NOVA SCOTIA, #116 Nice view titled The Residence of Judge Haliburton (Author of Sam Slick), from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, approximate size with margins is 27 x 21 cm. From: N. P. Willis, Canadian Scenery Illustrated, publisher George Virtue, London. Haliburton, Thomas Chandler born Dec. 17, 1796, Windsor, Nova Scotia; died Aug. 27, 1865, Isleworth, Middlesex, Eng. Canadian writer best known as the creator of Sam Slick, a resourceful Yankee clock peddler and cracker-barrel philosopher whose encounters with a variety of people illuminated Haliburton's view of human nature. Haliburton was admitted to the bar in 1820 and, as a member of the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly (1826–29), led a popular movement for liberal reform. He later reverted to his early Tory convictions and resigned from the Assembly. As a judge of the Supreme Court (1841–54), he maintained the strongly conservative political and social views that inform his writings. In 1856 he moved to England, where he was a member of the House of Commons from 1859 until his death. The escapades of Sam Slick were first revealed serially in the newspaper Nova Scotian (1835) but subsequently published in book form (1836, 1838, 1840) as The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville. The dialogues between Sam Slick and the squire are satirical attacks on the shiftlessness of the Nova Scotians, mobocracy, and the levelling tendencies of the age. They are enriched by the tremendous vitality of Sam's colloquial speech and by his fund of anecdotes and tall tales. Many of Sam Slick's sayings, such as “This country is going to the dogs” and “barking up the wrong tree,” have become commonplace in English idiom. Haliburton shifted his attacks to a variety of other topics in his subsequent works: The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England, 4 vol. (1843–44), Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances; or, What He Said, Did, or Invented (1853), and Nature and Human Nature (1855). Windsor, Nova Scotia Windsor is a town located in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a service centre for the western part of the county and is situated on Highway 101. The town has a history dating back to its use by the Mi'kmaq Nation for several millennia prior to European colonization. When the Acadians lived in the area, the town was raided by New England forces in 1704. The area was central to both Father Le Loutre's War and the Expulsion of the Acadians during the Bay of Fundy Campaign in 1755. The town promotes itself as the birthplace of ice hockey and was the home of Canada's first internationally best-selling author, Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
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