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Authority record- CA QUA01671
- Person
- n.d.
John Thorburn was Headmaster at Ottawa Collegiate in Ottawa, Ont.
- CA QUA01104
- Person
- 1924-2014
Dr. Hugh Garnet Thorburn (1924-2014 ) was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1942 but left the next year to join the Canadian Army. Throughout the rest of the Second World War, he served with the Army, rising to the rank of Captain by the time he was discharged in 1946. He returned to Victoria College where he completed an honours course in Political Science and Economics in 1949. From 1949 to 1952 he continued his studies at Columbia University where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1958. While working on his Ph.D., Hugh Thorburn went to Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, in 1952, as a Lecturer and was appointed Assistant Professor the following year. In 1954-55, he took an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan, returned to Mount Allison for 1955-56, and then accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor at Queen's University in 1956. Since then he has risen through the academic ranks, Associate Professor 1963, Professor 1964, Head of Department of Political Studies 1968-1971 and most recently Professor Emeritus. Dr. Thorburn passed away in Kingston on June 3 2014.
- CA QUA02762
- Person
- 28 Mar. 1926-
William D. (Bill) Thomson was born in Toronto in 1926, raised and educated in Port Credit, Ontario, and served in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve at the end of World War II. Following discharge, he studied Animal Science at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, graduating in 1950. He worked in veterinary and chemical sales and service throughout Western Ontario. Thomson has been a member of many railway organizations, including the Canadian Railroad Historical Association, for which he served as President of the Kingston Division. He has written regular articles for the publication "Kingston Rail."
- CA QUA11969
- Person
- fl. 1942
K.D. Thomson was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
- CA QUA01103
- Person
- 1823-1895
James Thomson was a farmer, baker, miner and lumberman who lived in Edwardsburgh, Canada West (now Cardinal, Ont.). Born in 1823 in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Thomson worked as a baker's apprentice at the age of 22 until he emigrated to Canada in 1844. He stayed in Montreal that first winter, then moved to Edwardsburgh to work as a baker. In 1849, he moved to Chicago, where he found employment in a lumber firm. In 1850, he travelled to California, then the Fraser Valley (Cariboo), where he took up mining, and continued working as a baker and a lumberman. Three years later, he had earned enough money to purchase a farm in Edwardsburgh. He would later work for the Edwardsburgh Starch Company as assistant book-keeper
After settling in Edwardsburgh, he married Mary Armstrong in 1854. They raised five children: James, Colin, Edwin, Mary and Agnes. They had born two others, Lora and an unnamed infant, who both died at young ages. James passed away in 1895.
- CA QUA01102
- Person
- 1791?-1834
Hugh Christopher Thomson was a businessman, printer, journalist, politician, office holder, justice of the peace, and militia officer. He was born 1791 in Kingston (Ont.), son of Archibald Thomson and Elizabeth McKay and died there 23 April 1834. Thomson went on from newspaper publishing to issue 2 volumes of verse and a 2-volume novel, St. Ursula's Convent (1824), by Julia Beckwith Hart. The novel was the first fiction book published by a Canadian-born author.