Albert Durrant Watson

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. 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

Poetry "A Hymn for Canada", Canadian Medical Association Journal

Dream of God: A Poem (1922)

Anthologies

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.