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coloniats ; and the imperial authorities, outside of the Cumberland district, 

 do not ap2)ear to have had reasons for serious anxiety during the progress 

 of the war. 



From this early immigration have sprung many of the best known 

 men of Nova Scotia. For instance, T. C. Haliburton ("Sam Slick"); 

 Sir Charles Tupper, the vetei-an statesman ; Dr. Borden, at present 

 minister of militia in the dominion government ; Mr. R. L. Borden, who 

 represents Halifax in the House of Commons ; Senator Lovitt and Mr. 

 Flint. M. P., of Yarmouth ; Mr. Justice Barker, of St. John ; Attorney- 

 General Longley, eloquent and witty, who cultivates literature with suc- 

 cess, even amid the depressing influences of petty provincial politics ; 

 besides the Chipmans, Ritchies, Batons, Dickies, DeWolfes, Brechins, 

 Burpees, and many others. Dr. S. E. Dawson, the queen's printer, 

 at Ottawa, and an able historian and essayist, can trace a family con- 

 nection to the Cobbs, who settled in Nova Scotia, and one of whom. 

 Sylvanus, took part in the two sieges of Louisbourg in 1745 and 1758. 

 Dr. T. H. Rand, of McMaster University, and Dr. B. Rand, of Harvard, 

 are members of a family first notable for the Reverend Silas T. Rand, the 

 linguist and Micmac scholar. The Archibalds, who have given so many 

 eminent men to the public service of Canada and the Empire, are des- 

 cended from four brothers of the Scotch-Irish migration of 1762, who 

 settled in Truro, and surrounding country. One of the notable members 

 of this family, whose name is even yet a household word in the county of 

 Colchester and elsewhere, was Samuel G. W. Archibald, who occupied at 

 different times the positions of speaker of assembly, chief justice of Prince 

 Edward Island, master of the rolls, and judge of the court of vice- 

 admii^alty of Nova Scotia. He possessed a rare combination of intellec- 

 tual and agreeable qualities. Although he had in his youth relatively 

 few opportunities for education, he succeeded in acquiring a vast fund of 

 knowledge, and at the same time made himself a sound lawyer, whose 

 judgments on the bench were distinguished for clearness and precision- 

 In social intercourse he possessed a rare charm which made him a 

 delightful companion.^ One of his sons became a judge of one of the 

 superior courts of Great Britain, another was an eminent consul-general 

 of England at New York for many years, inclusive of the trying period 

 of the civil war ; and both received ihe honour of knighthood. Sir 

 Adams G. Archibald, who belonged to another branch of the same family, 

 was also a distinguished figure in later colonial life, as I shall presently 

 show when I come to give some pei'sonal reminiscences. Senator T. D. 



1 See an iuteresting "Life of 8. G. W . Archibald" by Israel Longworth, Halifax, 

 N. S., 1881. Also " Histoi-ical and Genealogical Record of the First Settlers of Col- 

 chester county, down to the present time. Compiled from the most authentic 

 sources. By Thomas Miller, Halifax, N. S., 1873. It shows the large number of 

 descendants of the Archibalds. 



