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Albert Durrant Watson

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Albert D. Watson
Born(1859-01-08)January 8, 1859
DiedMay 3, 1926(1926-05-03) (aged 67)
Toronto, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Physician, poet

Albert Durrant Watson (January 8, 1859 – May 3, 1926) was a Canadian poet, and physician.

Life

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He graduated from Victoria University, and Edinburgh University. He practiced medicine for more than forty years in the city of Toronto.[1][2]

Watson was born in a family of a reformer in politics and a Methodist in religion.[3] He held a series of seances from 1918 to 1920 by medium Louis Benjamin.[2] He joined the Bahá'í Faith in 1920, was active in the Toronto community, and publishing poems related to the religion in the 1920s in and beyond Bahá'í publications.[4]

Works

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  • "The Norse Discovery of America", Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1923, v17, pp257.

Poetry

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  • "A Hymn for Canada", Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • The wing of the wild bird and other poems. William Briggs. 1908. Albert Durrant Watson.
  • Love and the universe: The immortals, and other poems... Macmillan. 1913. ISBN 9780665776694.
  • Heart Of The Hills: Poems. 1917. reprint. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. 2007. ISBN 978-0-548-73411-7.
  • Dream of God: A Poem (1922)
  • Woman: a poem. Ryerson Press. 1923.
  • Poetical works. Ryerson Press. 1924.

Anthologies

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Psychic

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References

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  1. ^ Garvin, John William, ed. (1916). "Albert D. Watson". Canadian Poets. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. pp. 227–236.
  2. ^ a b Barr, Debra; Meyer zu Erpen, Walter (2005). "Watson, Albert Durrant". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  3. ^ Debra Barr and Walter Meyer zu Erpen. "WATSON, ALBERT DURRANT".
  4. ^ Will C. van den Hoonaard (30 October 2010). The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. pp. 101–3. ISBN 978-1-55458-706-3. OCLC 757045489.
  5. ^ "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2015.