page_title: Agar Adamson
section_title: Last years
hierarchical_section_title: Agar Adamson / Last years
caption_attribution_description: English: Adamson Estate on the shores of Lake Ontario. Mississauga, Ont.
context_page_description: Agar Stewart Allan Masterton Adamson DSO was a Canadian soldier who married the Toronto heiress Mabel Cawthra. He served with distinction in the Second Boer War and in World War I, and commanded the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry from 1916 to 1918. He died after an airplane crash in the Irish sea.
context_section_description: Adamson's wife, Mabel, had been helping in London and with civilian refugees behind the lines in Belgium when she became ill.
  She soon recovered, but Adamson now became affected by posttraumatic stress disorder, causing depression and lack of judgement.
  His marriage broke down, although there was no divorce.
  Adamson returned to Canada in March 1919.
  In 1919 Adamson designed and built a baronial mansion in the Belgian style at Lakeview, Ontario on land the Adamsons had been given as a wedding present.
  In 1921 he went to live in France.
  In October 1929 he was a passenger in an experimental airplane that crashed into the Irish sea. Adamson survived two hours in the bitterly cold water, but died a few weeks later on 21 November 1929 in London, England.
  His son Agar Rodney Adamson (1901-1954) was federal member of Parliament for York West from 1940 to 1954.
  His second son Anthony Patrick Cawthra Adamson (1906-2002) was an architect, associate professor of town planning at the University of Toronto, chairman of the Ontario Arts Council, designer of Upper Canada Village, and a member of the Order of Canada.
caption: Adamson Estate in Lakeview, Ontario. Adamson designed and built the Belgian-style mansion  in 1919
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