[Haliburton, Thomas Chandler] Anonymous.

The Season-Ticket.

New Edition. London, Richard Bentley, 1861. Octavo (11,5 cm x 17 cm). 330 pages including Advertisement bound in front of the Volume for W.H.Smith & Son’s. Original Hardcover (Printed, paper-covered-boards. The original Volume now housed in a bespoke, recent Solander-Box. The binding a little shaky. The interior in excellent, extremely clean condition. Of utmost rarity. Already in the first chapter, Haliburton uses the technique of literary fiction in order to speak about the ability to travel everywhere (in mid 19th century)….″The Grand Tour now means a voyage round the Globe…” / Haliburton, known to have been “eager to promote immigration to the colonies of British North America” tries to entice to Travel. The Chapter “An Evening in Cork” talks about the narrator to “accompany my old college friend Cary to Monkstown in Ireland…..unlike my gruff and inhospitable countrymen, I advise you, when at Cork, to remain there, till you have ‘done’ the city and its environs and then to sail down the River…”.

Includes the following chapters: I – An evening in Cork / II – Walks, Talks and Chalks / II – Homeward Bound / IV – A Train of Thought, and thoughts in a Train / V – John Bull and his Diggins / VI – Black Jobs and White Favours / VII – A Gallimaufry / VIII – Our Neighbour and Distant Relations / IX – The Living and the Dead / X – The Old and the New Year; or, Quakers Afloat and Ashore / XI – Colonial and Matrimonial Alliances [This chapter speaks of “Extraordinary Facilities for Inland Navigation enjoyed by Canada, by means of her enormous Lakes and numerous Rivers…..” / “New Brunswick, as you will see, by reference to a map, is intersected in every direction by navigable Rivers of Great Magnitude” “…there is no point in Nova Scotia more than 30 miles distant from navigable water…” / XII – Big Wigs /

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (17 December 1796 – 27 August 1865) was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author. He made an important political contribution to the state of Nova Scotia before its entry into Confederation of Canada. He was the first international best-selling author of fiction from what is now Canada. In 1856, he emigrated to England, where he served as a Conservative Member of Parliament. He was the father of the British civil servant Lord Haliburton and of the anthropologist Robert Grant Haliburton. On 17 December 1796, Thomas Chandler Haliburton was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, to William Hersey Otis Haliburton, a lawyer, judge and political figure, and Lucy Chandler Grant. His mother died when he was a small child. When Thomas was seven, his father married Susanna Davis, the daughter of Michael Francklin, who had been Nova Scotia’s Lieutenant Governor. He attended University of King’s College in Windsor. Later he became a lawyer and opened a practice in Annapolis Royal, the former capital of the colony.
Haliburton attained distinction as a local businessman and as a judge, but his greatest fame came from his published writings. He wrote a number of books on history, politics, and farm improvement. He first rose to international fame with his Clockmaker serial, which first appeared in the Novascotian and was later published as a book throughout the British Empire, as popular light reading. The work recounted the humorous adventures of the main character, Sam Slick. In 1816, Haliburton married Lousia Nevill, daughter of Captain Laurence Neville, of the Eighth Light Dragoons. Between 1826 and 1829, Haliburton represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Haliburton was eager to promote immigration to the colonies of British North America. One of his first written works was an emigrant’s guide to Nova Scotia published in 1823, A General Description of Nova Scotia; Illustrated by a New and Correct Map. The community of Haliburton, Nova Scotia was named after him.
In Ontario, Haliburton County is named after Haliburton in recognition of his work as the first chair of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company. In 1884, faculty and students at his alma mater founded a literary society in honour of the College’s most celebrated man of letters. The Haliburton Society, still active at the University of King’s College, Halifax, is the longest-standing collegial literary society throughout the Commonwealth of Nations and North America. The mention “hurly on the long pond on the ice”, which appears in the second volume of The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England, a work of fiction published in 1844, has been interpreted by some as a reference to an ice-hockey-like game he may have played during his years at King’s College. It is the basis of Windsor’s disputed claim to being the town that fathered hockey. In 1902, a memorial to Haliburton and his first wife was erected in Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia, by four of their children: Laura Cunard, Lord Haliburton, and two surviving sisters. Nova Scotian artist William Valentine painted Haliburton’s portrait. His former home in Windsor is preserved as a museum. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: British North America Colonies · Canada · Canadian Literature · Catalogue Irish History Five – Local Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · Catalogue Ten – International Literature · Cork · Cork City · Emigration · English Literature – Rare · Haliburton, Thomas Chandler · Immigration · Irish History – Rare · Irish Immigration to Canada · Monkstown · Monkstown (County Cork) · Nova Scotia
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 29785AB

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