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Robina Lizars
d. 1918
A Canadian writer with a strong feel for local history, she is best known for lively books written with her sister Kathleen about early Ontario and the rebellions of 1837. Beyond writing, she was also an accomplished musician and music teacher.
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Humours of '37, Grave, Gay and Grim: Rebellion Times in the Canadas
by Robina Lizars, Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars
About the author
Robina Lizars was a Canadian author born in 1850 and remembered for collaborative historical writing with her sister, Kathleen MacFarlane Lizars. Their best-known books include In the Days of the Canada Company and Humours of '37, Grave, Gay and Grim, works that helped bring nineteenth-century Ontario history to a wider readership.
Archival and library records also describe her as Robina Lizars Smith. In addition to her literary work, she was active in music, noted as a respected teacher and as someone who served on the executive of the Ontario Music Teachers' Association.
She died in 1918. Surviving reference pages and catalog records confirm her writing career, but I couldn't reliably confirm a suitable portrait image from the sources I found.