author

Robina Lizars

d. 1918

A Canadian historical writer with a gift for bringing early Ontario to life, she worked closely with her sister Kathleen on books that blend careful research with a lively storytelling touch.

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Humours of '37, Grave, Gay and Grim: Rebellion Times in the Canadas

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 from Stratford, Ontario, best remembered for historical writing created with her sister, Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars. Together they wrote books that explored Canadian settlement and nineteenth-century life, including work on the Canada Company and the rebellion era.

Available records also connect the sisters with Stratford family and archival history, where their books are treated as part of the region’s literary legacy. Because reliable biographical details are limited in the sources I could confirm here, it seems safest to describe Robina Lizars as a local Ontario writer whose surviving reputation rests mainly on those collaborative historical volumes.

She died in 1918.