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Major Reginald Richard Dixon (Retd), former Co-ordinator of Interpretive Projects, National Parks and Historic Sites, Parks Canada was Superintendent of Bellevue House National Historic Site during restoration in 1966-67. Bellevue House, a Tuscan villa built in the 1840's by Kingston merchant Charles Hales, was the home of Sir John A. Macdonald and his wife Isabella,1848-1849. The house was restored to the period as a project of Parks Canada. Bellevue House was officially opened 24 May, 1967 and was visited by Queen Elizabeth the following July.

James Douglas, Queen's third Chancellor (1915-1918), led quite a varied life as a Presbyterian minister, a metallurgist, and industrialist, and a historian. He was born in Quebec City and educated at Queen's (BA 1858) and The University of Edinburgh, where he was ordained as a minister in 1861.

Shortly afterward, he made a surprising career change, becoming a mining chemist in Quebec. In 1875, he entered industrial life in the US. He discovered valuable copper deposits in Arizona, invented new metallurgical processes for the reduction of copper, and reached the presidency of three major mining companies.

Douglas also founded a huge smelting centre in Douglas, Arizona, which was named in his honour. Throughout his career he retained a deep interest in and affection for both Canada and Queen's. He wrote several works of Canadian history and donated close to $1 million to various University causes.

In 1910, Douglas established the Douglas Chair in Canadian and Colonial History. It was the first Chair in Canadian History in Canada, and in an unusual step, he had an actual chair made to accompany his gift. The chair was made out of teak, and was handcarved with Canadian symbols.

Douglas' biggest gift was to provide half of the funds for Douglas Library, which was completed in 1924 and named in his honour. He was elected Chancellor in 1915 after the death of Sir Sandford Fleming and served until his own death in 1918.

Dr. Allie (also addressed as Alice) Vibert Douglas, distinguished academic, astrophysicist and dean of women, was born in 1894 in Montreal. She received her B.A and M.Sc. from McGill in 1920 and 1921. An interval as statistician at the British War Office during World War I earned her the M.B.E. In 1925 she received her Ph.D. in astronomy. For fourteen years, 1925-1939, Dr. Douglas taught at McGill, then moved to Queen's where she served as Dean of Women from 1939 to 1959 and Professor of Astronomy from 1946. She retired in 1964. Dr. Douglas championed the role of women in education and worked hard to raise their status. She was the first Canadian to be president of the International Federation of University Women and served from 1947 to 1950. She was also the first woman president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. She received honorary degrees from McGill, Queen's and Queensland Universities and was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1967. Dr. Douglas died in 1988 and in her honour astronomers named a recently discovered planet "Vibert Douglas".

Courses in French have been offered at Queen's University since the late 1860s, and were first taught on a regular basis in the late 1880s by John Macgillivray, Professor of Modern Languages. French became a separate department in 1902, under Professor P.G.C. Campbell.

Le Département d'Études françaises offre des plans d'étude au niveau du 1er cycle (du baccalauréat spécialisé à la mineure) jusqu'aux 2e et 3e cycles universitaires. Nos cours sont diversifiés et adaptés à vos besoins. Nos professeurs, engagés dans de multiples activités de recherche, vous guideront dans vos apprentissages, qu'il s'agisse d'améliorer votre compétence du français, de vous familiariser avec les littératures et les cultures de langue française, d'étudier la linguistique française ou d'entreprendre une recherche plus approfondie au niveau de la maîtrise ou du doctorat.

Wilfrid Bennett Lewis was born in 1908 at Castle Carrock in Cumberland, England. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he earned a B.A. (Hons.) in 1930. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1934 for work on the analysis of alpha-particle groups, and in the same year was elected a Research Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. From 1939 to 1946 he worked on improvements in radar for the Air Ministry Establishment (later to become the Telecommunications Research Establishment). In 1946 he resigned to take up the Directorship of the Division of Atomic Energy of the National Research Council of Canada. He was appointed Vice-President of Research and Development of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in 1952 and Senior Vice-President in 1963. Upon his retirement in 1973 he took up a chair as Distinguished Professor of Science at Queen's University. He died in 1987.
Among the many honours accorded to Lewis were the Fellowship of the Royal Society, 1945 (awarded the Society's Royal Medal in 1972), C.B.E. 1946, the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada 1952 and the 1967 Atoms for Peace Award.

Zema (Bobs) Cogill Haworth (1900-1988), an artist, moved from Queenston, South Africa to attend the Royal College of Art in England in 1919. She obtained her A.R.C.A. degree from the University of London. She married Peter Haworth in 1923, and they moved to Toronto. Bobs Cogill Haworth taught ceramics at the Central Technical School in Toronto, Ontario. Peter and Bobs also shared a career as painters, especially in water colours. At home , they maintained separate studios but frequently showed together at galleries across Canada. In 1943 the National Gallery of Canada commissioned the Haworths to tour Canada painting the war effort, especially at naval and airforce bases. Their painting shows a progression from representational to abstract style.

Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Bart., Governor of Newfoundland was born on 28 February 28, at Leatherhead, Surrey, where his father was curate. He was one of five sons and two daughters of the Reverend Henry Duckworth (1712-1794) of Middleton, Lancashire (later, vicar of Stoke Poges and rector of Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, and a minor canon of Windsor), by his wife Sarah, née Johnson (d. 1780) of Ickenham in Uxbridge, Middlesex.

He left Eton at the age of 11 to enter the Royal Navy as a midshipman, 20 February 1759, in H.M.S. NAMUR, under the aegis of Admiral Boscawen. He obtained his lieutenancy, 14 November 1771, and was promoted Commander, 21 July 1779; Post Captain, 16 June 1780; Rear-Admiral of the White, 14 February 1799; Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1 January 1801; Vice-Admiral of the Blue, 23 April 1804; Vice-Admiral of the White, 9 November 1805; Vice-Admiral of the Red, 28 April 1808; Admiral of the Blue, 31 July 1810; and Admiral of the White, 4 December 1813.

His distinguished, though somewhat controversial, career began with his taking part in the battles of Lagos Bay and Quiberon Bay in 1759. His first period of American service began at Rhode Island in 1777, when he was first lieutenant in the DIAMOND frigate, and his later service included several appointments in, and visits to, the West Indies prior to his final years in Newfoundland.

Notable events in his career include his taking part, as Captain in the ORION, in the action off Ushant, 1 June 1794, for which he was officially mentioned by Admiral Howe; his blockade of Cadiz in 1800, which included the capture of a large Spanish convoy from which he profited greatly; his taking of St. Thomas and other Swedish and Danish islands in the West Indies in 1801, for which he was made a Knight of the Bath, 6 June 1801; his complete defeat of a French fleet off Santo Domingo in 1806, for which he was rewarded by a pension of L1000 and honoured by the City of London in additioin to being presented with valuable preseents by various bodies; his forcing of the Dardanelles in 1807 in a vain attempt to carry out impossible instructions to impose terms on Constantinople; and his governorship of Newfoundland, 1810-1812, for which he received a baronetcy, 2 November 1813.

After his return from Newfoundland in 1812, he took his seat in Parliament as M.P. for (New) Romney in Kent, one of the Cinque Ports, and although he accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, 3 February 1813, he was again Member for that constituency at the time of his death. From January 1815 until he died, 31 August 1817, he held the appointment of Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth.

In 1776, Duckworth married Anne Wallis (d. 21 August 1797), only child of John Wallis of Trentonwoonwith, near Camelford, Cornwall. By her he had one son, Lieutenant-Colonel George Henry Duckworth (1782-1811) of the 48th Foot, who married Penelope, daughter of Captain Robert Fanshawe, R.N., and was killed at Albuera in the Peninsular War. Admiral Duckworth's daughter by this marriage, Sarah Anne Duckworth (d. 1819), married the son of Admiral Sir Richard King, who later became Vice-Admiral Sir Richard King, Bart. (1774-1834). In 1888, their son, Admiral Sir George St. Vincent King, Bart (1809-1891) assumed Duckworth's arms and prefix surname because of the failure of heirs to Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth (b. 1809), Duckworth's son by his second marriage in 1808 to Susannah Catherine Buller (d. 1840), daughter of Dr. William Buller, Bishop of Exeter.

Professor W.M. Drummond was born at Britol, Quebec in 1897 (date indefinite). He graduated from Queen's University in 1923 with an honours B.A. and medal in political science. He received the M.A. degree from the University of Toronto in 1924. He then lectured at the University of Alberta from 1924 to 1926 before taking an A.M. and Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1937 W. M. Drummond was appointed Professor and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Ontario Agricultural College. During World war II he served on various federal commmittees and boards before returning to O.A.C. in 1945. He served as a member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in Newfoundland (1953), the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects (1955), and the Royal Commission on Price Spreads (1957). He died at home in 1965.

Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was born in Besançon to Joseph-Léopold-Sigisbert Hugo and Sophie Trébuchet. He married Adèle Foucher in 1822 and had a daughter. Hugo was first a foremost a novelist, poet, and dramatist and was considered the most important of French Romantic writers. In his later life, he became involved in politics as a supporter of the republican form of government. After three unsuccessful attempts, Hugo was elected in 1841 to the Académie Francaise. Following the 1848 revolution, with the formation of the Second Republic, Hugo was elected to the Constitutional Assembly and to the Legislative Assembly.

The House of Industry was established in 1848 by the Female Benevolent Society of Kingston, the group that had earlier initiated the Kingston General Hospital. The House of Industry was intended to bring relief to the many Irish immigrants who had arrived in Kingston destitute as a result of the famine in Ireland and the plague which spread through the ships coming to America. The House of Industry provided more or less permanent shelter for anyone needing it and temporary refuge and aid to those called outdoor paupers. A school was run in conjunction with the institution. The institution passed through several phases and, at different times, was variously called House of Refuge, Home for the Aged and, finally, Rideaucrest. The care of orphans was undertaken in the Orphan's Home, and women with infants were cared for in the Home for Friendless Women and Infants. It is now under the direction of the Rideaucrest Home Committee, a standing committee of the Kingston City Council.