activities of Samuel (Sam) Slick, the itinerant clockmaker of Nova Scotia. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia. Thomas Haliburton was born, of Canadian ancestry, in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick.īased on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States.īorn in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. Sam Slick the Clockmaker 1887 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton -Published by John B Alden. Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. Reproduction of the original: The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
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