Raymond, William Odber

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: D. G. Bell, “RAYMOND, WILLIAM ODBER,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/raymond_william_odber_15E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Church of England clergyman and historian; b. 3 Feb. 1853 in Lower Woodstock, N.B., son of Charles William Raymond and Elizabeth Mary Carman; m. 18 June 1879 Julia Nelson in Saint John, and they had a son and a daughter; d. at midnight 23–24 Nov. 1923 in Toronto.
    • William Odber Raymond would come to be identified as the quintessential historian of the loyalist generation in New Brunswick. That reputation rests on his massive edition of the Winslow papers (1901), a volume that is far more than a cornerstone of Canadian loyalist studies.
    • Beginning in the early 1890s, Raymond gained access to the 18th-century manuscript collections that became the basis for his foundational contributions to Maritime historiography, notably the papers of Edward Winslow, James White, and Ward Chipman, sr. 
  • Descendent of Proven Loyalist Silas Raymond: Loyalist Directory – https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=6897
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