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 | | Carroll Aikins was born in 1888 in Stanstead, Quebec, and while not born into a theatrical family nor directly encouraged towards the performing arts he was, because of his temperament as well as his family background, inclined in a number of ways to the written and spoken arts. |
 | | Aikins' father was John Somerset Aikins, a successful businessman in real estate and insurance, who, before his abrupt death while Carroll was in his mid-twenties, was also a Member of Parliament. |
 | | Aikins, a man of ideals and dreams, was not concerned with organization; he taught 'whatever happened to strike him - his blue eyes would sparkle and he'd be inspired, [but] he was no planner'. |
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