Robert Grant Haliburton
1831–1901
Canadian lawyer and ethnologist. Active in many Nova Scotian societies; founder (1862) and vice-president of the Nova Scotia Institute of the Natural Sciences. Secretary to the Nova Scotia commissioners for the International Exhibition in London, 1862. Advocated protectionism; a founding member of the Canada First Movement. Published anthropological and ethnological studies.
Source
DCB.
Bibliography
DCB: Dictionary of Canadian biography. Edited by George W. Brown et al. 13 vols. and index to first 12 vols. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press. 1966–94.
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