Family
In 1936, he married Irene Donner in a ceremony conducted by his father. Their honeymoon was a 500 mile canoe trip loop from Kenora to Red Lake. Later, Dewdney became a father to Christopher Dewdney, a Canadian poet; Alexander Dewdney, a mathematician, author, conservationist, environmental scientist and naturalist; Donner Dewdney, a child psychiatrist, known for discovering the facial distortion effect among schizophrenic children; and Peter Dewdney, a photographer and gold prospector.
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