Albert Durrant Watson

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

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

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

• "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. 
• 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.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Albert Durrant Watson, Lorne Pierce, eds. (1923). Our Canadian literature: representative prose & verse. Ryerson Press.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Psychic

• The twentieth plane: a psychic revelation reported by Albert Durrant Watson. G. W. Jacobs & company. 1919. 
• 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. 
• 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.

• "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2015.