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Clement Horton Belcher (March 5, 1801 – May 23, 1869) was a
bookseller Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, book people, bookmen, or bookwomen. History The foundi ...
and
publisher Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...
from
Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax is the capital and most populous municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of 2024, it is estimated that the population of the H ...
. Belcher was born in 1801 in
Cornwallis, Nova Scotia Cornwallis Park is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Annapolis County. As of the 2021 census, the population was 488, an increase of 1.9% from 2016. History The community is located on the western edge of Cleme ...
. As a young man, he was apprenticed to the owner of a
dry goods Dry goods is a historic term describing the type of product line a store carries, which differs by region. The term comes from the textile trade, and the shops appear to have spread with the mercantile trade across the British Empire (and Common ...
store. At age 21, Belcher assumed control of a bookstore that had belonged to a relative. Belcher was notable for a number of his publications. The best known was ''The farmer's almanack, for the year of our Lord...'' which he began in 1824. In 1832 it was renamed ''Belcher's farmer's almanack''. Another publication, ''Nova Scotia temperance almanack'' is attributed to him as well as other diverse works. The ''Almanack'' and Belcher's name was known throughout the province. Well researched and widely distributed, the publication became part of most households and continued until 1930 under Belcher's name. At that time, publication ceased.


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Almanac An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasting, weather forecasts, farmers' sowing, planting dates ...


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Colony of Nova Scotia people Canadian booksellers 1801 births 1869 deaths 19th-century Canadian businesspeople {{Canada-business-bio-stub