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Robina Lizars
d. 1918
A Canadian writer and musician, she is best remembered for co-authoring a vivid account of early Ontario settlement life with her sister Kathleen. Her work blends local history with storytelling, giving the past a warm, human texture.
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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
Born in Stratford, Ontario, Robina Alison Lizars was an accomplished musician and music teacher as well as a writer. Archival records describe her as active in musical life in Ontario, including service on the executive of the Ontario Music Teachers' Association.
She is most closely associated with In the Days of the Canada Company (1896), written with her sister Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars. The book looks at the settlement of the Huron Tract and everyday social life in early Ontario, and it remains the work most often linked to her name.
Sources also identify her as Robina Lizars Smith after her marriage to Stratford lawyer Robert Smith. She died in 1918, and while surviving biographical detail is limited, the record that remains suggests a life shaped by both music and literary collaboration.