Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Nova Scotia and Mr. Blue Nose

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Birthplace Overview T.C. Haliburton's NS c1800 Overview NS 1st Historian Windsor King's College Hurley on Long Pond TCH's Long Pond Clifton Grove Waterways Windsor Gypsum Bluenose Why He Wrote Wise Saws Bibliography Works Online Sam Slick's Words Related Pages Acadians Rhode Island to NS MacMechan Hist/Stat Chittick Hist/Stat TCH Explains Hist/Stat Alexander Meets TCH	"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive." - Thomas Chandler Haliburton Thomas Chandler Haliburton - His works are about Nova Scotia and "Mr. Blue Nose" The Old Judge or Life in the Colony - Preface by Thomas Chandler Haliburton The following sketches of "Life in the colony" were drawn from nature, after a residence of half a century among people whose habits, manners, and social condition they are intended to delineate. I have adopted the form of a tour, and the character of a stranger, for the double purpose of avoiding the prolixity* of a journal, by the omission of tedious details, and the egoism of an author, by making others speak for themselves in their own way. The utmost care has been taken to exclude anything that could by any possibility be supposed to have a personal reference, or be the subject of annoyance. The "Dramatis Personae" of the work are, therefore, ideal representatives of their several classes, having all the characteristics and peculiarities of their own set, but no actual existence... I have also avoided, as far as practicable, topics common to other countries, and endeavor to select scenes and characters peculiar to the colony [of Nova Scotia], and not to be found in books... This distinctive character is produced by the necessity of a new country, by the nature of the climate, the want of an established Church, hereditary rank, entailment of estates, and the subdivision of labour, on the one hand, and the absence of nationality, independence, and republican institutions on the other... The Nova Scotian, who is more particularly the subject of this work, is often found superintending the cultivation of a farm and building a vessel at the same time; and is not only able to catch and cure a cargo of fish, but to find his way with it to the West Indies or the Mediterranean; he is a man of all work, but expert in none... [he] is a handy, frank, good-natured, hospitable, manly fellow, and withal quite good looking as his air gives you to understand he thinks himself to be. Such is the gentleman known throughout America as Mr. Blue Nose, a sobriquet** acquired from a superior potato of that name... [The term "Bluenoser", in refference to Nova Scotian's, is in use to this day.] Note: The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 5th edition pub 1963 prolixity - lengthy, tediously wordy sobriquet - nickname Excerpt From -* The Old Judge or life in the Colony by Thomas Chandler Haliburton Originally published London, Henry Colburn1849 Volume Consulted Published by the Tucumseh Press, Ottowa, Canada, 1978
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