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

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, and physician.

Life

He graduated from Victoria University, and

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. He practiced medicine for more than forty years in the city of

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. 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

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in 1920, was active in the Toronto community, and publishing poems related to the religion in the 1920s in and beyond Bahá'í publications.

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''
* * * *''Dream of God: A Poem'' (1922) * *

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.

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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.

References

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