The story is narrated by an English gentleman known only as "The Squire" who is making a tour of the colony on horseback. Sam is an itinerant pedlar and clockmaker from New England who travels the roads of Nova Scotia selling his clocks. As the subtitle describes, The Clockmaker consists of The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville. Initially published as a series in a newspaper beginning in 1835, Thomas Chandler Haliburton's The Clockmaker was anonymously published in book form a year later. In his last years, Thomas Chandler Haliburton moved to England and became a Member of Parliament until his death in 1865.
#THE CLOCKMAKER THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON PROFESSIONAL#
Thomas and his wife Louisa owned a gracious home named "Clifton" on the outskirts of Windsor where, along with his professional responsibilities, they farmed, mined gypsum and raised eight children. Educated at the best schools and given the opportunity to travel, Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a member of the ruling class of the colony. Thomas' father William became a judge, and a member of the legislature, as did Thomas after him. Thomas Chandler Haliburton's family, as aristocratic, Loyalist, Tory Anglicans quickly established themselves in Nova Scotian society. Nova Scotia was peopled mostly by British settlers, and in the last decades of the eighteenth-century had experienced an influx of newcomers (United Empire Loyalists) as a result of the American War of Independence.
In 1836, Nova Scotia was a British colony, still more than a decade away from responsible government and closer in time to the War of 1812 than to Confederation.
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