Albert Durrant Watson

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

Albert D. Watson
Born	January 8, 1859 Dixie, Canada West
Died	May 3, 1926 (aged 67) Toronto, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Victoria University Edinburgh University
Occupation	Physician, poet

Life

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

He held a series of seances from 1918 to 1920 by medium Louis Benjamin.[2]

Works

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

Poetry

• "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.
• 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

• Bliss Carman; Lorne Pierce, eds. (1954). Canadian poetry in English. Ryerson Press.
• Albert Durrant Watson; Lorne Pierce, eds. (1923). Our Canadian literature: representative prose & verse. Ryerson Press.

Psychic

• The twentieth plane: a psychic revelation reported by Albert Durrant Watson. G. W. Jacobs & company. 1919. Albert Durrant Watson.
• Albert Durrant Watson, Louis Benjamin (1920). Birth through death, the ethics of the twentieth plane: a revelation received through the psychic consciousness of Louis Benjamin. The James A. McCann company. Albert Durrant Watson.
• 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.[3]

References

1. Garvin, John William, ed. (1916). "Albert D. Watson". Canadian Poets. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. pp. 227–236.
2. Barr, Debra; Meyer zu Erpen, Walter (2005). "Watson, Albert Durrant". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
3. "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2015.

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