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Robert Grant Haliburton

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Robert Grant Haliburton
QC, DCL
Haliburton in 1868
Born3 June 1831
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died6 March 1901(1901-03-06) (aged 69)
Pass Christian, Mississippi, US
Alma materUniversity of King's College
Occupation(s)Lawyer, Anthropologist
Parent
Relatives
AwardsQ.C., D.C.L.

Robert Grant Haliburton Q.C., D.C.L. (3 June 1831 – 6 March 1901) was a Canadian lawyer and anthropologist. He became famous after founding the Canada First organization that saw English Canadian society as the "heirs of Aryan northmen" and that the French Canadians were a "bar to progress."[1]

Early life

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Haliburton was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia. His father was Judge Haliburton who wrote the best selling Clockmaker series about the humorous adventures of the Sam Slick character. Like his father he graduated from University of King's College and was part of the local volunteer militia where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-colonel. He was a lawyer, called to the bar in 1853.[2]

Canada First and the Aryan North

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The Canada First movement was organized in Ottawa in 1868. It was at first supported by Goldwin Smith and Edward Blake. Ontario residents, George Denison, Charles Mair, William Alexander Foster and Robert Grant Haliburton founded the movement.[3] Haliburton and like minded authors that made up the Canada First movement saw that the milder southern climate was said to lead to "degeneration, decay, and effeminacy."[4] The harsher northern climate they argued was said to produce the most Canadian of characteristics, "the inclination to be moderate".[4] The Canada First movement saw the French Canadian and Métis cultures as dead weight that was holding the advancement of English Canada back.[1]

Later life

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Ill health required Haliburton to move to warmer climates and he spent his winters in Jamaica. After a lucrative career in law he was able to live off his investments and spent some time as an anthropologist and was instrumental in discovering the "dwarf races" of northern Africa and the Atlas region.[2] A "rover", he died in Pass Christian, Mississippi, United States, on 6 March 1901; he was 69.[5]

Works

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  • An Address On The Present Condition...British North America, (1857)
  • The festival of the dead, (1867)[6]
  • The coal trade of the New Dominion, (1867)[7]
  • Explorations in the Pictou coal field, (1867)[8]
  • Men Of The North And Their Place In History..., (1869)
  • Explorations in the Pictou coal field, in 1867 and 1868, (1869)[9]
  • A Sketch Of The Life And Times Of Judge Haliburton, (1897)
  • Voices From The Street

Source:[10][11]

References

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  1. ^ a b Francis & Jones 2011, p. 61
  2. ^ a b Chamberlain 1901, pp. 62–63
  3. ^ Vigod 2010
  4. ^ a b Holman 2009, p. 85
  5. ^ Davies 2005, p. 231
  6. ^ Haliburton, R.G. (1867). The festival of the dead. Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, 1(1), 61-85.
  7. ^ Haliburton, R.G. (1867). The coal trade of the New Dominion. Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, 2(1), 81-93.
  8. ^ Haliburton, R.G. (1867). Explorations in the Pictou coal field. Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, 2(1), 93-100.
  9. ^ Haliburton, R.G. (1869). Explorations in the Pictou coal field, in 1867 and 1868. Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, 2(3), 155-164.
  10. ^ "Author - Robert Grant Haliburton". Author and Book Info.
  11. ^ "Browsing Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science by Author "Haliburton, R. G. (Robert Grant), 1831-1901"". DalSpace Institutional Repository. Retrieved 6 December 2024.

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