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Authority record- CA QUA09427
- Person
- 1812-1868
Henry Smith, a politicia, lawyer, and land speculator, was born 23 April 1812 in London, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents before 1818. The family settled in Montreal, where Henry attended Benjamin Workmans private school, and, after they moved to Kingston in the early 1820s, he completed his education at the Midland District Grammar School. He studied law under Christopher Hagerman and Thomas Kirkpatrick, and was admitted to the bar in 1834. He was appointed QC in 1846, and became a lwayer for the Grand Trunk Railway in Kingston in 1853.
In 1841, Smith was elected to the Legislative Assembly for Frontenac and held the seat until 1861, when he decided to leave the Conservative party. After two subsequent failed runs, he regained his seat in 1867, but fell ill shortly thereafter. He died in Kingston, Ontario on 18 September 1868.
- CA QUA02271
- Person
- 1891-30 May 1971
Gordon Jenkin Smith was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1891. He attended school in Kingston and enrolled at Queen's University in 1908. He graduated with a B.A. in Mineralogy and Geology in 1912 and received an Honours B. Sc. in 1915. As a student he obtained a varied experience in mining, prospecting and other engineering work. From 1915 to 1917 Gordon Smith taught civil engineering at the Nova Scotia Technical College in Halifax , but was drawn back to the family jewellery business in Kingston when his father died. He continued to work at Smith Bros. for 10 years. Gordon Smith married Cecil Gertrude McKee in, or around, 1918. They had two children John G. Smith and Eleanor A. Smith. In 1926 he joined the staff of Queen's University and became, respectively: Secretary-Treasurer of the Alumni Association and Editor of the Queen's Review; manager of the Employment Bureau; Secretary of the University council; Director of Endowment; and finally Treasurer of the University and Secretary of the Board. He was a life-member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Queen's University Faculty Club and the Queen's University Alumni Association. He retired from Queen's University in 1950 due to ill health, and died May 30th, 1971.
- CA QUA01055
- Person
- 1913-2012
Frances K. Smith was Curator Emeritus of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario. Frances K.Smith was born in Bolton England on November 19, 1913. She moved to Canada in 1944 with her husband Walter MacFarlane Smith and settled in Quebec City. In 1946, they moved to Kingston. Ms Smith completed her degree at Queens in 1956. The following year, she began her career at the newly opened Agnes Etherington Art Centre. She spent the next 23 years helping to build up the permanent art collection, researching and cataloguing all the art work at Queens, planning exhibitions, pursuing funds and publishing numerous articles.She was also the author of "Daniel Fowler: 1810-1894", and a biography of Andre Bieler "Andre Bieler: An Artist's Life and Times". She retired as curator emeritus in 1980 and received the Queens Distinguished Service Award in 1987. Frances K. Smith passed away in Calgary AB on December 22, 2012.