Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part One: ‘This is my own, my native land’
5. Chapter 1. Alias ‘Sam Slick’ 3
6. Chapter 2. Yankee Heritage 9
7. Chapter 3. King’s College and Marriage 15
8. Chapter 4. Annapolis Royal and the General Description 24
9. Chapter 5. The Legislature and the ‘Club’ 32
10. Chapter 6. Historian and Judge 39
11. Chapter 7. Clifton and The Clockmaker 47
12. Chapter 8. A Tradition of Yankee Humour 52
13. Chapter 9. Career in Crisis 60
14. Part Two: A Literary Career
15. Chapter 10. The Greatest Lion in London 69
16. Chapter 11. Moving in the Best of Circles 74
17. Chapter 12. Bubbles of Canada and Reply to the Earl of Durham 81
18. Chapter 13. Microcosms: Clifton and the Great Western 90
19. Chapter 14. More Clockmaking and More New Relations 99
20. Chapter 15. The Death of Louisa 104
21. Chapter 16. A Three-Hundred-Year-Old Tory Returned to Life 112
22. Chapter 17. The Death of Tom Jr 120
23. Chapter 18. Stepping Out of the Frame 128
24. Chapter 19. Sam Slick Rides Again 138
25. Chapter 20. End of an Era 148
26. Part Three: Sam Slick in England
27. Chapter 21. A New Career 159
28. Chapter 22. A Hectic Social Life 166
29. Chapter 23. Member of Parliament for Launceston 181
30. Chapter 24. The Clash with Gladstone 192
31. Chapter 25. The Canada Land and Emigration Company 203
32. Chapter 26. Launceston, Parliament, and Isleworth 212
33. Chapter 27. The Banting System 221
34. Chapter 28. The Last of the Tories 226
35. Appendix: Haliburton Family Tree 233
36. Notes 237
37. Works by Thomas Chandler Haliburton 289
38. Illustration Credits 291
39. Index 293