Albert Durrant Watson
Albert Durrant Watson (January 8, 1859 – May 3, 1926) was a Canadian poet, and physician.
Albert Durrant Watson
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- Name
- Albert D.
- Born
- 8 January 1859
- Birthplace
- Dixie, Canada West
- Died
- 3 May 1926
- Place of death
- Toronto, Ontario
- Occupation
- Physician, poet
- Education
- * Victoria University
- Nationality
- Canada
- Languages
- English
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Albert Durrant Watson (January 8, 1859 – May 3, 1926) was a Canadian poet, and physician.
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Albert Durrant Watson was a poet, of Canadian nationality. The poet was born in Dixie and died in Toronto. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Albert D. Watson • Born — 8 January 1859 • Birthplace — Dixie, Canada West • Died — 3 May 1926 • Place of death — Toronto, Ontario • Occupation — Physician, poet • Education — * Victoria University • Edinburgh University
Life
Life
He graduated from Victoria University, and Edinburgh University. He practiced medicine for more than forty years in the city of Toronto. Watson was born in a family of a reformer in politics and a Methodist in religion. He held a series of seances from 1918 to 1920 by medium Louis Benjamin. 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. The earliest known published assertion that we are stardust ("our bodies are star-stuff") is in Watson's 1913 book.
Works
Works
• "The Norse Discovery of America", Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1923, v17, pp257.
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Poetry
• "A Hymn for Canada", Canadian Medical Association Journal * * * • Dream of God: A Poem (1922) * *
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Anthologies
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Psychic
* * • Dr. Albert Durrant Watson, a prominent Canadian psychic investigator, claimed to be the first to receive a message from Dr. James H. Hyslop who died on June 17, 1920, in Upper Montclaire, New Jersey, "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada" The New York Times, Tuesday, June 22, 1920.
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- 1.McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. Albert D. Watson. Canadian Poets. 227–236. 1916.
- 2.Debra Barr and Walter Meyer zu Erpen. WATSON, ALBERT DURRANT.
- 3.Barr, Debra. Watson, Albert Durrant. 15.
- 4.Will C. van den Hoonaard. The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. 101–3. 30 October 2010. 978-1-55458-706-3.
- 5.From THE IMMORTALS in Love and the universe: The immortals, and other poems. 61.
- 6.Quote Origin: We Are Made of Star-Stuff.
- 7.Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada. The New York Times.
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