Alfred M. Edmonds (1821 – November 23, 1893) was a Canadian artist, draughtsman and cartographer.
Birth Edmonds was born in 1821 at Bishopstone, Berkshire, England.Register of Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, 1873 to 1990
Professional career He was listed as a school teacher in Burnstown, Ontario, in 1863.Art in the Backwoods, Ottawa Citizen, November 7, 1865. He was also listed as a draughtsman in the same year.Harper, J. Russell. (1970). Early Painters and Engravers in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. In 1872 he produced a sketchbook for the Haycock Iron Mine of Cantley, Quebec.Artist's file: A. M. Edmonds. Library and Archives Canada, 1989 and 1991. 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 FlemingStarks Pocket Almanac, 1884, p. 237.
Honors Edmonds was awarded a prize in the category Pencil Drawings at the Upper Canada Provincial Exhibition of 1863.Harper, J. Russell. (1970). Early Painters and Engravers in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. He received a commission from the Governor General of Canada, Sir Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin, in 1873.Artist. Ottawa Citizen, December 27, 1873.
Death Edmonds died of natural causesOntario deaths, 1839 to 1938. 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.Register of Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, 1873 to 1990 When arrested, Edmonds was referred to as "a pale, delicate-looking man, who it is thought was insane."The Ottawa Journal, Feb. 28, 1893, page 1 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."The Ottawa Journal, November 25, 1893, page 4
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External links http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayHierarchy&lang=eng&rec_nbr=2904210&back_url=() http://www.cantley1889.ca/english/echo/echocantley_2012-10.html