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Canadian artist, draughtsman and cartographer (1821–1893) For the English footballer, see Eddie Edmonds.

Alfred M. Edmonds (1821 – November 23, 1893) was a Canadian artist, draughtsman and cartographer.

Birth

Edmonds was born in 1821 at Bishopstone, Berkshire, England.

Professional career

He was listed as a school teacher in Burnstown, Ontario, in 1863. He was also listed as a draughtsman in the same year. In 1872 he produced a sketchbook for the Haycock Iron Mine of Cantley, Quebec. From 1881 until his death, he was a cartographer for the Canadian Pacific Railway and then the Canada Department of Railways and Canals. In 1884, he is recorded as an assistant to Sir Sandford Fleming

Honors

Edmonds was awarded a prize in the category Pencil Drawings at the Upper Canada Provincial Exhibition of 1863. He received a commission from the Governor General of Canada, Sir Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin, in 1873.

Death

Edmonds died of natural causes in Ottawa on November 23, 1893, and is buried in Beechwood, the National Cemetery of Canada. The death occurred in the Ottawa Protestant Hospital. Edmonds was a jail inmate at the time. When arrested, Edmonds was referred to as "a pale, delicate-looking man, who it is thought was insane." A coroner's inquest concluded, "We wish ... to express our disapproval in the detention in jail of such a case ... which was one for a charitable institution."

Sketch from Haycock Mine Sketchbook, Library and Archives Canada

References

  1. Register of Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, 1873 to 1990
  2. Art in the Backwoods, Ottawa Citizen, November 7, 1865.
  3. Harper, J. Russell. (1970). Early Painters and Engravers in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
  4. Artist's file: A. M. Edmonds. Library and Archives Canada, 1989 and 1991.
  5. Starks Pocket Almanac, 1884, p. 237.
  6. Harper, J. Russell. (1970). Early Painters and Engravers in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
  7. Artist. Ottawa Citizen, December 27, 1873.
  8. Ontario deaths, 1839 to 1938.
  9. Register of Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, 1873 to 1990
  10. The Ottawa Journal, Feb. 28, 1893, page 1
  11. The Ottawa Journal, November 25, 1893, page 4

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