Commemorating the publication in 1836 of "The Clockmaker, or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville", the first in that series of humorous and satircal works which won for Haliburton, international fame in the world of letters.

Born in Windsor, Haliburton’s fame rests not upon his service as a legislator and jurist but upon his humorous writings. The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick… (1836), which first appeared in Howe’s Novascotian, won him international acclaim. Other works of humour followed but failed to reach quite the distinction of the first. Emigrating to England in 1856 he was made an honorary doctor of Oxford and sat in the House of Commons from 1859 until his death. He loved England and her institutions but the North American in him sometimes thought it all “plaguey dull”.