Robert Grant Haliburton

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organization that saw English Canadian society as the "heirs of Aryan northmen" and that the French Canadians were a "bar to progress."

Early life

Haliburton was born in

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. His father was Judge Haliburton who wrote the best selling ''Clockmaker series'' about the humorous adventures of the

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character. Like his father he graduated from

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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.

Canada First and the Aryan North

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. Ontario residents, George Denison, Charles Mair, William Alexander Foster and Robert Grant Haliburton founded the movement. 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." The harsher northern climate they argued was said to produce the most Canadian of characteristics, "the inclination to be moderate". The Canada First movement saw the French Canadian and

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cultures as dead weight that was holding the advancement of English Canada back.

Later life

Ill health required Haliburton to move to warmer climates and he spent his winters in

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. 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. A "rover", he died in

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, United States, on 6 March 1901; he was 69.

Works

* ''An Address On The Present Condition...British North America'', (1857) * ''Men Of The North And Their Place In History...'', (1869) * ''A Sketch Of The Life And Times Of Judge Haliburton'', (1897) * ''Voices From The Street'' Source:

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