Albert Durrant Watson Explained

Albert D. Watson
Birth Date:	8 January 1859
Birth Place:	Dixie, Canada West
Death Place:	Toronto, Ontario
Nationality:	Canadian
Occupation:	Physician, poet

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

Life

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

Watson was born in a family of a reformer in politics and a Methodist in religion.^[2] He held a series of seances from 1918 to 1920 by medium Louis Benjamin.^[3] 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

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

Anthologies

• Book: Canadian poetry in English. registration. Bliss Carman . Lorne Pierce. Ryerson Press. 1954 .
• Book: Our Canadian literature: representative prose & verse. Albert Durrant Watson . Lorne Pierce. Ryerson Press. 1923 .

Psychic

• Book: The twentieth plane: a psychic revelation reported by Albert Durrant Watson. Albert Durrant Watson.. G. W. Jacobs & company. 1919 .
• Book: Birth through death, the ethics of the twentieth plane: a revelation received through the psychic consciousness of Louis Benjamin. Albert Durrant Watson.. Albert Durrant Watson, Louis Benjamin. The James A. McCann company. 1920 .
• 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.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Garvin . John William . John William Garvin . Canadian Poets . 227–236 . Albert D. Watson . 1916 . McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart . Toronto, Ontario, Canada .
2. Web site: WATSON, ALBERT DURRANT. Debra Barr and Walter Meyer zu Erpen.
3. Barr . Debra . Meyer zu Erpen. Walter . Watson, Albert Durrant . 15 .
4. Book: Will C. van den Hoonaard. The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948. 30 October 2010. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. 978-1-55458-706-3. 757045489 . 101–3.
5. News: Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada. The New York Times. 11 March 2015.