- CA QUA02644
- Person
- fl. 1960s
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James Stewart Pritchard became a lecturer in history at Queen’s University in 1967. Dr. Pritchard remained at Queen’s for his academic career, teaching history courses on New France, Quebec and early modern European expansion. His research specifically focused on early Canadian colonial history as well as maritime history. Some of Pritchard’s published writings were the following: Louis XV's Navy; A Study of Organization and Administration; Anatomy of a Naval Disaster; The 1746 French Expedition to North America; and In Search of Empire, The French in the Americas, 1670-1730; and A Bridge of Ships; Canadian Shipbuilding during the Second World War.
The Pritchard family established their business at Wyman, Quebec in the 19th century. Originally the small village was known as Billerica until the C.P.R. arrived and the name was changed to Wyman. Mr. James M. Pritchard (1847-1889) established the family business, a general store, which became the centre of the village. When Mr. Pritchard died suddenly, his wife, pregnant with her fourth child, took over management of the family business, now officially know as E.A. Pritchard. Eventually her son, William Frederick Pritchard (1879- 1953) took over. William Frederick was also the local postmaster and stationmaster.He was assisted periodically at the store by his sister Abbie Stewart Pritchard (1887-1960). Abbie's main interest, however, was the Women's Institute in which movement she became quite prominent. The business was taken over by the Dodds family in 1944 when Fred Pritchard became ill. In 1969 the modernized store was destroyed by fire.
George Pringle was the son of James Pringle, a Justice of the Peace of Cornwall. He attended Queen's University in Arts from 1849 to 1850 and obtained a medical degree later from McGill. He took further medical training in England during 1857 and 1858.
Pringle and Booth Ltd. Is a photogrphy studio based in Toronto, Ontario.
In February of 1988, the National Film Theatre opened Princess Court Cinema in the old Oddfellows Lodge at 394 Princess Street in collaboration with the Kingston Artists Association Inc. Relocating to the downtown core of Kingston was done with the hope of better fulfilling what the NFT saw as one of their key tenets, performing a community service to the general public and downtown residents, not just Queen's students and faculty. The Cinema continued as a non-profit corporation until 1998, when, due to distribution issues, it closed its doors.