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erick Haldimand, 88; his arrival and reception in Boston, 109; promoted, 110, 294; his debts, 312. =Haldimand, Pierre.= =Hd= Nephew of Sir Frederick Haldimand, joins him in Florida, 72; placed in charge of seigniory of Pabos, 73, 111; appointed ranger of the woods, 294; death of, 294. =Haldimand, William.= =Hd= Grand-nephew of Sir Frederick Haldimand; and director of Bank of England, 343. =Haldimand Papers.= =Hd= In Canadian Archives, 319, 320. =Haliburton, Thomas Chandler= (1796-1865). Born at Windsor, Nova Scotia. Educated at the Grammar School and at King's College there. Called to the bar and practised for a time at Annapolis. Represented the county of Annapolis in the Nova Scotia Legislature, and in 1829 appointed district judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1841 transferred to the Supreme Court. Resigned in 1856, and removed to England, where three years later, entered Parliament as member for Launceston. Died at his home, Gordon House, on the Thames. =Index=: =H= Contributes to _Nova Scotian_, 9; his _History of Nova Scotia_ published by Joseph Howe, a financial failure, 10; friendship for Howe, 10; sails for England with Howe, 267; Howe's poetical toast to, 267-268. =Md= Advocates Confederation, 96. =Bib.=: Works: _An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia_; _The Clockmaker, or The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville_; _Bubbles of Canada_; _Reply to the Report of the Earl of Durham_; _Letter-bag of the Great Western, or Life in a Steamer_; _Attache, or Sam Slick in England_; _Old Judge, or Life in a Colony_; _English in America_; _Traits of American Humour_; _Wise Saws and Modern Instances_; _Americans at Home_; _Nature and Human Nature_; _Address on the Present Condition, Resources, and Prospects of British North America_; _Season Ticket_. Brief biographies are found in _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Morgan, _Bib. Can._; Allibone, _Dict. Eng. Lit._; Calnek and Savery, _History of the County of Annapolis_; Chasles, _Etudes sur Litterature des Anglo-Americains_; Crofton, _Haliburton: a Centenary Chaplet_. _See also_ last-mentioned volume for a bibliography of the various editions of his works and a list of articles, in books and magazines, on the man and his works; _also_ A. H. O'Brien's exhaustive bibliography, in R. S. C., _Trans._, 1909. =Halifax.= A seaport, and the capital of Nova Scotia; founded in 1749 and named after the Earl of Halifax, then president of the Board of Trade. The
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