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The Long "Long Pond"
Story
Haliburton’s Long Pond –
Researced and Written by Holly
Hammett-Vaughan
Much of our information and sources have come from
collections at Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), the Halifax
Regional Library System (HRL) and the Crown Lands Office. We have reproduced various
original source materials for this site, with their kind permission.
Bibliography
1
– Notes on the History of King’s College
by Fenwick Williams Vroom
NSARM
– Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
V/F v.14 #16
Pg 4
2
– John Clarke’s [Clark] Land Grant – 1786
Crown Lands Office
General Index
of Grants from 1730 to 1937 Inclusive
3 – A
Plan of Lands Proposed by John Clarke [Clark], Esquire for the Academy or
College at Windsor – 25th Sept. 1789
NSARM – Nova Scotia Archives & Records
Management
4 – Windsor, Nova Scotia – a journey in
history
by Leslie Loomer
Published by the West Hants Historic Society,
Windsor, Nova Scotia 1996
HRL 971.635 L 863w
Pg 120
5
– A Plan of Lands Proposed by John Clarke
[Clark], Esquire for the Academy or College at Windsor – 25th Sept. 1789
NSARM
– Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
6
– The History of King’s College School – Windsor, Nova Scotia 1788-1938 –
Harris, R. [Reginald Vanderbilt]
Published by "The Outlook", Middleton,
Nova Scotia, 1938
HRL SG Ref 373.7163 h315h
pg 16
7
– Notes on the History of King’s College
by Fenwick Williams Vroom
PANS
V/F v.14 #16
Pg 4
8 – Haliburton
Family Letters 1789 – 1893
Nova Scotia Historical Review
Vol 13 #1
1993
NSARM – Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
Reading Room
Pg 117 – 118
9 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton ("Sam
Slick") – A Study in Provincial Toryism
Chittick, V.L.O. (Professor in
the Division of Literature and Language at Reed College)
Published NY, Columbia
University Press 1924
HRL
SG 921 H172c
pg 25 – 26
10
– Plan of the Township of Windsor from
an Actual Survey by Wm. [William] Anson, Deputy Surveyor
[Handwritten note
reads "about 1820"]
NSARM – Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
V7/230 – 1820
(Copy) J.A. McCallum, Dy [Deputy] Surveyor 1893 –
Shows
– J Clark Esq’s lands
Shows – King’s College Lands purchased from John Clark
in 1789
Shows – Land owned by John Clark which his heirs sold to T.C. Haliburton
in 1833
Shows – Butler Estate, "Martock"
11
– Loomer, Leslie – Windsor, Nova Scotia, a journey in history –
Published
by the West Hants Historic Society, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1996
HRL 971,635
L863w
Pg 124…
Spruce Grove Farm was the Isaac Deschamps property…
The
merchant, Benjamin DeWolf bought the Grove…
Lord and Lady Dalhousie spent
much of the summer at the Grove, which they had leased. In 1822, William Anson,
a deputy surveyor, demonstrated his superior skill in penmanship and drawing to
produce a large map of the grove properties belonging to the Fraser boys…
Haliburton
had Anson copy a map for use in his History. Haliburton referred to him as "a
beautiful draftsman"…
12 – A Century
of Haliburton’s Nova Scotia
by Archibald MacMechan
Pub 1930
NSARM
– Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
V/F v105 #27
Pg 1 –
3
…[In the year] 1823…in Halifax [there was] published a pamphlet entitled
"A General Description of Nova Scotia"…
…Haliburton himself
supplies the reason why it was written, – to clear the province of misrepresentation.
A banquet was given in his honor in 1839. When his health was proposed, reference
was made to his "History", and what he said in reply applies also to
the "General Description [of Nova Scotia, published in 1823]"…the
precursor of the Historical and Statistical Account [which was published in 1829.
Haliburton was 33 years old at the time].
13
– An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia
In two volumes. Illustrated
by a map of the province, and several engravings.
By Thomas C. Haliburton,
Esq.
Barrister at Law and Member of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia
[originally] Printed and Published by Joseph Howe, Halifax 1829
Volume Consulted
– Canada Reprint Series #51
Mika Publishing, Belleville, Ontario 1973
HRL SG ADULT 971.6 H172 h 1973
Volume 2 – Pg 104 – 108
The
County of Hants, Windsor, King’s College
14
– The Haliburton Bi-Centenary Chaplet:
Papers Presented at the 1996 Thomas
Raddall Symposium
Edited by Richard A. Davies
Published – 1997
An
Architectural Interpretation of Clifton Grove
by Allen Penny
Pg 104
…Haliburton…started
building Clifton…on 30 acres of land purchased in January 1833.
15
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton : A Centenary Chaplet
Published for the Haliburton
Club, King’s College, Windsor, NS
by William Briggs Toronto, Ontario 1897
HRL SG REF 921 H172K
Pg 17
…soon after Mr. Haliburton was made a judge…[he
moved into] Clifton, a picturesque property to the west of the village, consisting
in all of forty acres bounding to the eastward on the village, to the north on
the river, and to the South on the lands of King’s College….
16
– The Haliburton Bi-Centenary Chaplet:
Papers Presented at the 1996 Thomas
Raddall Symposium
Edited by Richard A. Davies
Published – 1997
An
Architectural Interpretation of Clifton Grove
by Allen Penny
Pg 104
It would appear that the house was completed by Christmas 1835, when he was 39
years old. At occupation the family consisted of Haliburton, his wife [Louisa],
five daughters ranging in age from 18 to 5 and three sons aged 15, 4 and 3…
17
– The Haliburton Bi-Centenary Chaplet:
Papers Presented at the 1996 Thomas
Raddall Symposium
Edited by Richard A. Davies
Published – 1997
An
Architectural Interpretation of Clifton Grove
by Allen Penny
Pg 104
…
the house was completed by Christmas 1835, when he was 39 years old…
18 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton : A Centenary Chaplet
Published for the Haliburton Club, King’s College, Windsor, NS
by William
Briggs Toronto, Ontario 1897
HRL SG REF 921 H172K
Pg 17
…[Clifton
was]…underlaid by gypsum, it was much broken up and very uneven; and the enormous
amount of earth excavated in opening the gypsum quarries was all needed to make
the property a comfortable and suitable place of residence….
19
– Afoot in Ultima Thule – Dal Review Vol #3 Pg 95-105
MacMechan, Archibald
(1810 – 1933)
NSARM – Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
F90
D15
Pg 98
20 – The Clockmaker; The Sayings and
Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Originally
Printed and Published by Joseph Howe, Halifax, 1836
Volume Consulted
The
New Canadian Library, General Editor – David Staines
McClelland & Stewart,
Toronto, Ontario 1993
Chapter three – The Silent Girls
Pg 23…I never
seed or heard of a country that had so many natural privileges as this. Why there
are twice as many harbors and water powers here, as we have all the way from Eastport
to New Orleens. They have all they can ax, and more than they desarve. They have
iron, coal, slate, grindstone, lime, firestone, gypsum, freestone…they don’t
know the value of their [province].
Chapter 7 – Go ahead
Pg 39 – 42
…[put] a Rail road to the Bay of Fundy…into operation, and the activity it
will inspire into business, the new life it will put into the place, will surprise
you…this here rail road will not perhaps beget other rail roads, but it will
beget the spirit of enterprise, that will beget other useful improvements. It
will enlarge the sphere and the means of trade, open new sources of traffic and
supply – develop resources – and what is of more value perhaps than all – beget
motion. It will teach folks that go astarn or stand stock still, like the statehouse
on Boston…not only to go "ahead," but to nullify time and space.
…What is it,…what is it that ‘fetters’ the heels of a young country,
and hangs like ‘a poke’ around it’s neck?what retards the cultivation of
its soil, and the improvement of its fisheries? – the high price of labor, I guess.
Well, what’s a rail road? The substitution of mechanical for human and animal
labor…it is a river, a bridge, a road and canal all in one. It saves what we
han’t got to spare, men, horses, carts, vessels, barges, and what’s all in all
– time.
21 Thomas Chandler Haliburton : A Study
in Provincial Toryism
by Victor Lovitt Oakes Chittick, P.H.D., Professor of
Literature and Language at Reed College
New York, Columbia University Press
1924
HRL SG 921 H 172c
Pg 179
…[as] reported in "the Novascotian"
(see footnote 1) (footnote 1…June 13, 1839, in an account of a public dinner
given Haliburton at Halifax)…
[Spoken by Thomas Chandler Haliburton] …"Shortly
after the History of Nova Scotia was written…It occurred to me that it would
be advisable to resort to a more popular style, and, under the garb of amusement
to call attention to our noble harbors, our great mineral wealth, our healthy
climate, our abundant fisheries, and our natural resources and advantages…I
was also anxious to stimulate my countrymen to exertion, to direct their attention
to the development of those resources, and to works of internal improvement, especially
to that great work which I hope I shall live to see completed, the railroad from
Halifax to Windsor, to awaken ambition and substitute it for that stimulus which
is furnished in other but poorer countries than our own by necessity. For this
purpose I called in the aid of the Clockmaker."
22
– A Century of Haliburton’s Nova Scotia
by Archibald MacMechan
Pub 1930
NSARM – Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
V/F v105 #27
Pg
1 – 3…A banquet was given in his honor in 1839. When his health was proposed,
reference was made to his "History", and what he said in reply applies
also to the "General Description [of Nova Scotia, published in 1823]"…the
precursor of the Historical and Statistical Account [which was published in 1829.
Haliburton was 33].
"…I twice visited Great Britain , and was… painfully,
impressed with a conviction… that this valuable and important Colony [of Nova
Scotia] was not merely wholly unknown, but misunderstood and misrepresented. Every…
work that mentioned it, spoke of it in terms of contempt and condemnation. It
was said to possess good harbours, if you could find them for the fog, and fisheries
that would be valuable if you only had sun enough to cure the fish – while the
interior was described as a land of rock and barren, and doomed to unrelenting
sterility. Where facts were wanting, recourse was had to imagination; and one
author stated that these woods were infested with wolves…he represents them
as being endowed by Providence with the remarkable power of ascending trees in
pursuit of their prey…It’s name was a name of terror, in the nurseries, and
the threat of sending a refactory child to Nova Scotia was equivilent to sending
him to the devil."
23 – Memories of Windsor
in the Seventies (1870s)
Vroom, F.W. , D.D.
[Written in 1934 – "the
Hants Journal Press"]
WHHS Archives
Pg. 14
…
Clifton Avenue
did not become a thoroughfare untill some years later, and there was only a footpath
from "Clifton" through the College woods. The right-of-way for this
had been purchased from Judge Haliburton in exchange for an extensive field of
several acres cut off from the College grounds and added to the "Clifton"
property. This field contained the Long Pond which in winter was a favorite skating
place, but some years ago the pond went dry.
…
24
– Notes on the History of King’s College
F.W. Vroom
NSARM – Nova Scotia
Archives & Records Management
V/F v.14 #16
Pg 8
…It may be mentioned
here that cricket was brought to Windsor about 1845. It was played on the field
to the north of the College, part of which is now covered with spruces, and part
attached to the Clifton property, having been given to Judge Haliburton in an
exchange for a right-of-way through his property to town. The field was near the
large elms in the hollow, which
stood out prominently with no spruces about them, and hence the name of "the
Three Elms Cricket Club", which is so well known in the history of cricket
in this province…
25 – Crown Lands Office
Plans in the Hants County Portfolio
26. Plan Water lots Town of Windsor by
William Hendry, Dec 31, 1879
26 – Deed – 1842
Land Transfer between T.C. Haliburton and King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia
Hants County Registry of Deeds
WHHS Archives
Photocopy of 1842 Deed –
Land
Transfer Between King’s College and Thomas Chandler Haliburton –
For the
purpose of making a road Etc.
Date and Purpose of Agreement
Halifax, January
28th, 1842
…Whereas the said Governors, President and Fellows of King’s
College at Windsor in the Province of Nova Scotia are desirous of obtaining a
part of the land of the said Thomas C. Haliburton called Clifton at Windsor aforesaid
between the lands of the said College and the back street of Windsor aforesaid
commonly called Chapel street [Note: Later called Chapel Lane, now known as Albert
Street] for the purpose of making a road for the use of said Governor, President
and Fellows of King’s College at Windsor in the Province of Nova Scotia…
…such
parcel of land in exchange for an equal quantity of land belonging to said Governors,
[etc.] King’s College…
…adjoining the South Eastern boundary of the
said lands of the said Thomas C. Haliburton…
(…and also for consideration
of the sum of five shillings of lawful money of the province [from King’s to Haliburton]…in
hand well and truly placed at or before the ??sealing and delivery of these property…)
…described
as follows, beginning at the Public road leading to the Chapel and commonly called
Chapel road and running along the devision line of the said Thomas C. Haliburton’s
land …untill [until] it reaches the north Eastern angle of the College lands…thence
South Westwardly along the Northern line of said lands…thence North Eastwardly…to
a stake thence North sixteen degrees east…to a spruce…North…to a spruce
stump…at the Eastern side of the deep cut for the Railroad of the said Thomas
C. Haliburton…etc….untill (until) it strikes the Public road aforesaid and
thence Eastwardly along the Southern side of said road to the place of beginning,
Containing one acre two roods and seventeen perches…
(…and also for
consideration of the sum of five shillings of lawful money of the province [from
Haliburton to King’s]…in hand well and truly placed at or before the ??sealing
and delivery of these property…)
…beginning on the line between the
College lands and the property of the said Thomas C. Haliburton called Clifton…to
the Western line of the College lands thence Northerly along last mentioned line…to
the North Western angle of the College lands and thence North Eastwardly…to
the place of beginning, Containing one acre two roods and seventeen perches…
27
– Ambrose Church Map of Windsor – 1871
WHHS
Showing – "Clifton",
Haliburton’s Grounds. Haliburton’s "Plaster Quarry" running along the
North side of Clifton
Showing – A Tri-lobed Pond in the Southern Corner of
Clifton Grounds, which is circumnavagated by a road.
Showing – King’s College
Grounds
Showing – "Park Street" Later known as "Clifton Avenue",
running from the junction of Gray Street and Albert Street [half of which was
formerly Chappel Street.]
Showing – College road – Un-named in the Roe Brother’s
map
NOTE: The pond noted on the Southern Corner of Clifton Grounds is the
only large pond indicated on the map. Although King’s College Grounds are shown
in detail, including the the Professor’s Terrace and the Academy, no pond is noted
on the College Grounds or the College road properties, owned in 1871 by Dr. McAulay,
H. Bodden (Bedden?), T. Maynard and A.C. Thomas. A few small, irregular shapes
appear on Clifton property which appear to be small ponds, but these are one tenth
the size of the pond in the southern corner of the property. It May be because
the word "Windsor" is written over the area where the King’s College
Woods would be that Church has shown neither the woods nor the King’s College
Frog Pond in the woods.
28 – Roe Brothers Map
of Windsor 1880
Loomer, Leslie – Windsor, A Journey in History –
Published
by the West Hants Historic Society, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1996
HRL 971,635
L863w
Copy of Roe Brothers Map of Windsor, Published 1880
Showing –
"Clifton", Haliburton’s Grounds, which are colour coded blue in the
original map
Showing – A "Tri-lobed" Pond in the Southern Corner
of Clifton Grounds
Showing – King’s College Grounds
Showing – "Park
Street" Later known as "Clifton Avenue",
running from the junction
of Gray Street and Albert Street [formerly known as Chapel Street]
29
– Birdseye View of Windsor 1878
NSARM – Nova Scotia Archives & Records
Management
Photo Negative # OS N69 – 1878
30
– The History of King’s College School – Windsor, Nova Scotia 1788-1938 –
Harris, R. [Reginald Vanderbilt]
Published by "The Outlook", Middleton,
Nova Scotia, 1938
HRL SG Ref 373.7163 h315h
pg 33 – …sept 22, 1871,
the school building was destroyed by fire which broke out just after morning recess…within
a few days the school was reopened in the manor house of "Martock",
the property of Col. Edward K.S. Butler on the Chester Road.
…untill June
1873 [at which point] …the school ceased functioning for the next two years.
pg
35 – …Jan 1877…work [on the new school began]…Oct. 29th handed over the
building to the board for occupation
31 – DeWolf
, Mark and Flie, George
All the Kings Men –
Published by the King’s Alumni
Association 1972
HRL SG Adult Lending 378.716 D524s
[Copy owned by WHHS]
Pg
44
On Feb. 5, 1920…By the time water was finally turned to the blaze, it
was too late to do anything but try to save the nearby buildings…
32
– Great Windsor Fire – 1897
by Garth Vaughan
www.birthplaceofhockey.com
In
1897, the Great Windsor Fire destroyed 4/5 of the town. Among the buildings lost
was Windsor’s first rink [built 1870] on Fort Edward. It was the first building
replaced in the town [1897], and eventually became known as the Stannus Street
Rink . It is believed to be the oldest standing wooden, natural ice rink in Canada.
The town was rebuilt within three years but never regained the vitality of those
earlier years. In 1920 another fire burned the main King’s college buildings and
a decision was made to rebuild the college in Halifax. Steamboats continued the
shipping business to and from Windsor into the 1950s when highway transportation
dealt a great blow to the shipping industry of the town.
33
– The History of King’s College School – Windsor, Nova Scotia 1788-1938 –
Harris, R. [Reginald Vanderbilt]
Published by "The Outlook", Middleton,
Nova Scotia, 1938
HRL SG Ref 373.7163 h315h
Pg 35 – …Jan 1877…work
[on the new school began]…Oct. 29th handed over the building to the board for
occupation
34 – The History of King’s College School
– Windsor, Nova Scotia 1788-1938 –
Harris, R. [Reginald Vanderbilt]
Published
by "The Outlook", Middleton, Nova Scotia, 1938
HRL SG Ref 373.7163
h315h
pg 37 – 39 (Between 1892 – 1894)
…Among the improvements to
the plants and buildings we find that the Board had the barn at the back of the
building removed, a cricket pitch layed out, terraces built and the playing field
drained, and an open-air skating rink built for winter use…
Note: Added
Oct 2003 –
35 – Plans in the Hants County Portfolio
#13 Layout of Lots on Road to Falmouth [undated – c.1800]
NOTE: Shows
along Waterfront
– Road to Falmouth [Written along what is now called Water
Street]
– John Clark Esq. Warfe lot (1000 or 1800?) N35 W300 foot
– Neal
Geachy (1000 or 1800?) N35 W300 foot
– Landing Place
– Cpt Monk
–
Josh Mauger
– Isaac Deschamps
– "King (Street)" [hand written
in and then crossed out] "Albert St.
Note: Appears to actually be "King
Street" which is the name of the street that runs along the base of Fort
Edward Hill in Windsor.
Streetfront Lots –
– 1. T Bridge J ___
1773
– 2. J Butler
– 3. L Louberlahter (?)
– 4. J Burbidge
– 5.
Capt. Shammus _ _ (?)
– 6. J Gerrish
– 7. Fred Deslesdernier & Capt.
_ Grounld
– 8. Avery
– 9. S Cottnum
– 10. Palmer
– 11. Mist Franklin
– 12. Lord William
– 13. B Gerrish
– 14. ?
Across the street –
– Farnum (?)
– Crowell
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