author
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
1796–1865
A sharp-eyed Nova Scotian writer, judge, and politician, he became the first fiction author from what is now Canada to win an international readership. He is best remembered for creating Sam Slick, the fast-talking clock peddler whose comic observations made him famous far beyond Nova Scotia.
7 Audiobooks
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete
by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01
by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02
by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Nature and Human Nature
by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The Clockmaker; Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Nothing to Eat
by Jr. Horatio Alger, Thomas Chandler Haliburton
About the author
Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1796, Thomas Chandler Haliburton studied at King's College, trained in law, and went on to serve in public life as both a judge and a politician. Alongside that career, he wrote history, political commentary, and fiction, building a reputation that reached well outside British North America.
His lasting fame came from The Clockmaker series, which introduced Sam Slick, a witty and talkative Yankee salesman. Those sketches mixed humor, satire, and social observation, and they made Haliburton one of the earliest internationally successful fiction writers from what is now Canada.
Later in life he moved to England, where he also served as a Conservative member of Parliament. He died in 1865, but his work still stands as an important early chapter in Canadian literature, especially for readers interested in satire, regional voice, and nineteenth-century humor.