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Grant, an oflScer of a Highland regiment that served under Wolfe at 

 Quebec in 1759. The only child of the Chief Justice was the subject 

 of this sketch. His father owned grants of land at Douglas, on the St. 

 Croix River, and when he removed from Douglas the house was floated 

 down the river, and placed on the present site of the town of Windsor. 

 Here the creator of " Sam Slick'' was born. Educated at Windsor, he 

 passed from the Grammar School to the Universiiy of King's College. 

 Graduating with honours, in 1815, he studied law, and upon being 

 called to the bar in 1820 commenced practice at Annapolis Eoyal, ISTova 

 Scotia's former capital. Becoming a member of the House of Assembly 

 in 1826, his ability and oratorical powers rapidly gave him a prominent 

 position in the legislature, where he sat till 1829. At this time his 

 father was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and he himself was 

 leader on the circuit. Upon the death of his father he was offered his 

 position, and, being weary of politics, he accepted it. Then but 32 

 years of age, he continued in that court until 1841, when, upon its 

 abolition, he was transferred to the Supreme Court of the province. He 

 resigned in 1856, after twenty-seven years service as a judge. Then 

 removing to England he resided there until his death on August 27th, 

 1865, at Islesworth, on the Thames, 



By his first marriage — with Louisa, daughter of Capt. Neville of 

 the British Army — he left two sons, (a) Robert Grant Haliburton, 

 I\.C., D.C.L., and (b) Arthur Lawrence Haliburton, sometime Under 

 Secretary of State for War, created Lord Haliburton in 1898. The 

 latter, who was the first native colonist to be raised to the Peerage, died 

 about a year ago. Of his five daughters, Susan married Hon. J. W. 

 Weldon, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick; Augusta 

 Louisa married Alexander F. Haliburton, of Whitley and Torquay; 

 Laura Charlotte married Wm. Cunard; Emma married the Rev. J B. 

 Smith; and Amelia married the Very Reverend Dean Gilpin. By a 

 second marriage, in 1856, to Sarah Harriet, daugliter of W. M. Owen 

 and widow of E. H. Williams, he had no issue. 



Haliburton the Author. 



Diffuse criticism is necessarily imperfect, and to attempt it seriatim 

 and in detail would be beyond the scope intended in these pages. A 

 few vulnerable points of attack only have been mentioned, and those 

 chiefly on the historical side of his authorship, for it is by his human 

 pide that he will best be known to posterity. His historical works played 

 their part at the time they were written, and subsequently, but those 

 days have now passed, and it is as an educator, a broad patriot and a 

 humorist that he will be appreciated in all days to come. 



