Haliburton House Museum

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Haliburton House Museum
Windsor
Nova Scotia, Canada

Stop in Windsor at Haliburton House - or "Clifton" as it was originally called. In 1842, an engraving of this house appeared in Canadian Scenery Illustrated with a caption describing it as "a small but elegant structure, delightfully situated on an eminence, which ... commands a noble prospect of the whole township." It was then the home of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author of the immensely popular Sam Slick stories.

Today the house looks quite different than in Haliburton's time. After he sold it, the house and its contents were auctioned, and successive owners altered and added to the house.

Haliburton House - 1838 A coloured engraving of Haliburton House, by W. H. Bartlett, which appeared in Canadian Scenery Illustrated in 1842, showing the house as it looked c. 1838.
At Haliburton House Museum, see a fine mahogany sloped-front writing desk used by the humourist himself. And, fitting for the home of the author of The Clockmaker, there are also examples of Nova Scotian clocks. Look for the clockwork spit before the open fireplace in the basement kitchen. Dating from the early 1800s, it's a clever mechanical device to save time for the family's cook.

Did you know?
Thomas Haliburton was once as internationally popular as Mark Twain.

The Sam Slick character made popular the sayings "it's raining cats and dogs," "quick as a wink," and "facts are stranger than fiction."
Young visitors can enjoy games that some of Haliburton's children might have played in the convenient children's activity room.

Enjoy the scenic grounds and the municipal walking trails that take you from Haliburton House to the bottom of Ferry Hill near Shand House Museum, land that was once part of Haliburton's property.

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