T.C. Haliburton
1796 – 1865


Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Plaque

Windsor
Hants County
Nova Scotia

Located in the lobby of the Hants County War Memorial Centre, Windsor

GPS location:   44°59'32"N   64°08'00"W



Windsor: T.C. Haliburton plaque, text
T.C. Haliburton plaque, Windsor
Erected 1937
Photographed on 20 March 2003


Windsor: T.C. Haliburton plaque, whole plaque
T.C. Haliburton plaque, Windsor
Photographed on 20 March 2003


Thanks to Mr. Garnet Clarke.


Hants County War Memorial Centre, Windsor
Hants County War Memorial Centre, Windsor
The T.C. Haliburton plaque is in the lobby
Photographed on 20 March 2003


Hants County War Memorial Centre, Windsor
Hants County War Memorial Centre, Windsor
This plaque is placed to the right of the front steps
Photographed on 20 March 2003





Links to Relevant Websites

Thomas Chandler Haliburton by J.M.S. Careless
    http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume6/94-95.htm


Sam Slick the first Canadian international bestseller
    http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/6/h6-245-e.html


Creator of Sam Slick: Sir Thomas Haliburton by Dalhousie Library
    http://www.library.dal.ca/spcol/vessels/halibur1.htm


The Haliburton Collection: Description
    http://www.library.dal.ca/spcol/vessels/halibur2.htm


The Haliburton Collection: History
    http://www.library.dal.ca/spcol/vessels/halibur3.htm


T.C. Haliburton bibliography by James Horner and Iram Khan
    http://www.track0.com/ogwc/authors/haliburton_tc.html


T.C. Haliburton bibliography by Peter Landry
    http://www.blupete.com/Library/History/NovaScotia/H.htm#Haliburton


T.C. Haliburton bibliography
    http://www.geocities.com/canlit2002/haliburtonthomaschandler.html


Thomas Chandler Haliburton by Peter Landry
    http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1800-67/Haliburton.htm


Thomas Chandler Haliburton by Richard Atterbury Davies
    http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4903


A Brief History of Windsor, Nova Scotia: 6A Thomas Chandler Haliburton by Garth Vaughan
    http://www.birthplaceofhockey.com/windsor/w6tchaliburton.html


A Brief History of Windsor, Nova Scotia: 6B T.C. Haliburton Chronology by Garth Vaughan
    http://www.birthplaceofhockey.com/windsor/t-c-h-windsor.html


Thomas Chandler Haliburton by Wikipedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chandler_Haliburton


Haliburton, Thomas Chandler by Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition
    http://www.slider.com/enc/23000/Haliburton_Thomas_Chandler.htm


Haliburton, Thomas Chandler by Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/H/Haliburt.asp


Haliburton, Thomas Chandler by Encyclopedia, Eleventh Edition (1911)
    http://31.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HA/HALIBURTON_THOMAS_CHANDLER.htm


Thomas Chandler Haliburton Collection at Dalhousie University by National Library of Canada
    http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/c=128


Thomas Chandler Haliburton Collection at Queen's University by National Library of Canada
    http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/c=129


Publications by Dr. Richard Davies including works about T.C. Haliburton
    http://ace.acadiau.ca/english/rdavies/new_page_10.htm


Haliburton Enterprises: My Relatives' Books includes T.C. Haliburton bibliography
    http://www.lewisporteonline.com/halent/store/relativebooks.html


Haliburton House Windsor
    http://museum.gov.ns.ca/hh/


486 Quotations from T.C. Haliburton
    http://acadprojwww.wlu.edu/vol4/BlackmerH/public_html/xliberty/oed/haliburton.html


Reviews and Criticisms of Haliburtons Work 6 volumes, collected by Herbert Robertson Banks
    http://www.westerncounties.ca/banks/haliburt.htm


Canadian Land and Emigration Company Limited
    http://www.trentu.ca/library/archives/77-023.htm


Canadian Land and Emigration Company Limited Plaque #4
Location: Sam Slick Park, in front of Haliburton Highland Secondary School, Haliburton, Ontario
    http://www.waynecook.com/ahaliburton.html


Canadian Land and Emigration Company Limited The name Haliburton came from Thomas
Chandler Haliburton, the first chairman of the Land and Emigration company from 1861 to 1865...
    http://www.mindentimes.on.ca/CrossRoads/History.htm


Canadian Land and Emigration Company Limited
    http://www.haliburtonforest.com/back.htm


Canadian Land and Emigration Company Limited Haliburton County, in Ontario, is named for
the first chairperson of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company, Judge Thomas Chandler
Haliburton ... The Village of Haliburton was founded in 1864. The Provincial Township
of Haliburton was formed in 1874...
    http://haliburtoncdc.ca/database/location.html


Thomas Chandler Haliburton Czechoslovakian site
    http://literatura.kvalitne.cz/6-.htm

OnLine Editions of T.C. Haliburton's Works

Project Gutenberg Titles by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
    http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?
        name=Haliburton%2c%20Thomas%20Chandler


C1 The Clockmaker, Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Project Gutenberg
    http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5817


C2 The Clockmaker, Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Project Gutenberg
    http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/clckm10.txt


C3 The Clockmaker, Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Project Gutenberg
    ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/gutenberg/etext04/clckm10.txt


C4 The Clockmaker, Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Project Gutenberg
    ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/clckm10.txt


N1 Nature and Human Nature Project Gutenberg
    http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/natur10h.htm


N2 Nature and Human Nature Project Gutenberg
    ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/gutenberg/etext04/natur10h.htm


N3 Nature and Human Nature Project Gutenberg
    ftp://ftp.archive.org/pub/etext/etext04/natur10h.htm


N4 Nature and Human Nature Project Gutenberg
    ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/natur10h.htm


The Trotting Horse the first episode in The Clockmaker... series
    http://www.arts.uwo.ca/canpoetry/eng%20274e/haliburton.htm


The Trotting Horse
    http://207.61.100.164/candiscover/cantext/canlitr/1836cloc.html

OnLine Scanned Images of T.C. Haliburton's Works
by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM)

Nature and Human Nature 1855
by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler; 371 page images available
    http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=32538

CIHM 32538

The Letter-bag of the Great Western, or, Life in a Steamer 1840
by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler; 99 page images available
    http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=357dfa1a40&doc=34738

CIHM 34738

A general description of Nova Scotia: illustrated by a new and correct map 1823
by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler; 218 page images available
    http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=357dfa1a40&doc=35672

CIHM 35672

The clockmaker, or, The sayings and doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville 1838
by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler; 229 page images available
    http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=35995

CIHM 35995

Volume One: The Attache, or, Sam Slick in England 1843
by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler; 287 page images available
    http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=45071

CIHM 45071

Volume Two: The Attache, or, Sam Slick in England 1843
by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler; 299 page images available
    http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=45072

CIHM 45072

An address on the present condition, resources and prospects of British North America,
delivered by special request at the City Hall, Glasgow
on 24 March 1857, by the Hon. Mr. Justice Haliburton
23 page images available
    http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=357dfa1a40&doc=48594

CIHM 48594

OnLine Commentary about T.C. Haliburton's Works

Another Source for Thomas Chandler Haliburton's The Clockmaker by D.M.R. Bentley
    http://www.arts.uwo.ca/canpoetry/cpjrn/vol30/bentley.htm


Soft sawder The term first appeared in the story The Trotting Horse in Haliburton's first collection...
    http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-sof1.htm


Mad as a hatter The first example of the phrase "mad as a hatter" I can find is from a work by Thomas
Chandler Haliburton of Nova Scotia, who was well-known in the 1830s for his comic writings about the
character Sam Slick, in The Clockmaker; or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville...
    http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-mad2.htm

Books by T.C. Haliburton

A General Description of Nova Scotia 218 pages
published 1823, printed at the Royal Acadian School in Halifax

An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia
published 1829 by Joseph Howe, Halifax

Sam Slick: Recollection of Nova Scotia

The Bubbles of Canada (1839)

The Letter-Bag of the Great Western, or, Life in a Steamer   two volumes
published 1840 by W.H. Colyer, New York

The Attache: Sam Slick in England (1843-44)

The Clockmaker; or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
a.k.a. Sam Slick, The Clockmaker
published 1838 by Carey Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia
issued in over 80 editions between 1836 and 1900

The Old Judge, or Life in a Colony (1849)
published c1860 by Hurst and Blackett, London

Rule and Misrule of The English in America   two volumes
published 1851 in United States by Harper, New York
published 1851 in United Kingdom by Colburne & Co., London

Traits of American Humour   three volumes
by various authors, edited and adapted by T.C. Haliburton
published 1852 by Colburn and Co., London

Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances;
or, What He Said, Did, or Invented
  two volumes
published 1853 by Hurst & Blackett, London

The Americans at Home (1854)

Nature and Human Nature   two volumes (1855)

An address on the present condition, resources
and prospects of British North America

delivered by special request at the City Hall, Glasgow
on the 24th March, 1857, by the Hon. Mr. Justice Haliburton
17 pages, published 1857 by John Lovell, Montreal

Speech on the Repeal of Duties on Foreign and Colonial Wood (1860)

The Season-Ticket (1860)

Books and articles about T.C. Haliburton

(Those mentioned below are only a few of the hundreds
of books and articles about T.C. Haliburton.)

Bradley, Rhonda
A Blazing Rage: T. C. Haliburton's Reply
to the Report of the Earl of Durham

Nova Scotia Historical Review #12:1 (1992) 21 pages

Chittick, Victor Lovitt Oakes
Thomas Chandler Haliburton ("Sam Slick");
a Study in Provincial Toryism

1924, Columbia University Press, New York
Reviewed by Cairns, William B.
Journal of American History, Volume 12 Number 1, June 1925


Davies, Richard Atterbury
On Thomas Chandler Haliburton   1979, Tecumseh Press, Ottawa

Haliburton, Robert Grant
A Sketch of the Life and Times of Judge Haliburton 1897
A Sketch of the Life and Times of Judge Haliburton 1897
by Haliburton, Robert Grant; 39 page images available
    http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=a1a584b25a&display=05331+0003

CIHM 05331


Liljegren, Sten Bodvar
Canadian history and Thomas Chandler Haliburton:
some notes on Sam Slick
  three volumes
1.   Upsala, Sweden: Upsala University Canadian Studies, 1956
2.   Upsala: Lundequistska Bokhandeln, 1969-70

Parks, G. Malcolm
Sam Slick in Pictures   1956, Ryerson Press, Toronto





The Wayback Machine has archived copies of this document:
Review of Haliburton Revisited: Haliburton Bi-centenary Chaplet
edited by Dr. Richard Davies, Wolfville: Gaspereau Press, 1997
Proceedings of the fifth Thomas Raddall Symposium at Acadia University, 1996

Archived: 1999 April 19
http://web.archive.org/web/19990419192053/http://www.acadiau.ca/inhouse/1998/mar1298/haliburton.htm

Archived: 2000 July 8
http://web.archive.org/web/20000708073455/http://www.acadiau.ca/inhouse/1998/mar1298/haliburton.htm

Archived: 2001 August 21
http://web.archive.org/web/20010821054441/http://www.acadiau.ca/inhouse/1998/mar1298/haliburton.htm

Archived: 2002 June 18
http://web.archive.org/web/20020618174459/http://www.acadiau.ca/inhouse/1998/mar1298/haliburton.htm





Photographs of War Memorials, Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
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Hants County war memorial Hants County war memorial Windsor
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/hantsco2wwmem.html


A.L. Haliburton plaque A.L. Haliburton plaque Windsor
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/baronhalmem.html


Robert Christie plaque Robert Christie plaque Windsor
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/christiemem.html


Alden Nowlan plaque Alden Nowlan plaque Windsor
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/nowlanamem.html


Fort Edward cannons Fort Edward cannons Windsor
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/fortedcann.html


Fort Edward blockhouse Fort Edward blockhouse Windsor
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/fortedward.html


Flora MacDonald plaque Flora MacDonald plaque Windsor
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/floramem.html


Windsor Exhibition founded in 1765 Windsor Exhibition founded in 1765
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/windex.html


Sir Robert Laird Borden monument Sir Robert Laird Borden Monument Grand Pre
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/borden_rl.html


Ellershouse war memorial Ellershouse war memorial
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/ellermem.html


William Hall monument, Hantsport William Hall monument Hantsport
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/hallmem.html


Hantsport war memorial Hantsport war memorial Hantsport
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/hantsmem.html


Falmouth: Sainte-Famille Parish Cemetery Sainte-Famille Parish Cemetery Falmouth
    http://ns1763.ca/hantsco/acadnfalm.html


Monument: 1747 Attack at Grand Pre Monument: 1747 Attack at Grand Pre Grand Pre
    http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/attack1747.html



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