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Carolyn Smart was born in England in 1952, and immigrated to Canada with her parents six years later. Smart grew up within the diplomatic community of Rockcliffe Park but at age 11 returned to England to attend boarding school on the coast of Sussex. Coming back to Canada, Smart lived in Toronto where she attended Bishop Strachan high school. It was there that she began writing poetry. Her first poem was published when she was 17 in an anthology called Vibrations, edited by Gage publishing and intended for study in schools. Smart attended the University of Toronto, where she majored in English Literature and Far Eastern Religion. Upon graduation in 1973, Smart worked as an editorial assistant for Doubleday Canada and then at Macmillan's as a poetry editor and publicist. Moving to Winnipeg for two years, she began work with the provincial government, editing the Manitoba Budget Address and organising interprovincial conferences for the office of the Premier. Back in Toronto she continued studying poetry with Joe Rosenblatt and Pier Giorgio di Cicco, and gave her first public reading in 1977. She worked at various part-time jobs including selling clothes at the Eaton Centre and freelance copy-editing. Her first Canada Council grant enabled her to begin writing full-time in 1979 and her first collection of poetry, Swimmers in Oblivion (York Publishing), was published in 1981. Other publications followed: Power Sources (Fiddlehead, 1984), Stoning the Moon (Oberon, 1989), The Way To Come Home (Brick Books, 1993), and At the End of the Day, a memoir (Penumbra Press, 2001). In 1992, Smart was shortlisted for a National Magazine Award for her poem “The Sound of the Birds”, published in Quarry magazine. In 1993, Smart won the CBC's Literary Contest in the Personal Essay Category for a portion of her memoir At the End of The Day. Smart's poems and essays have been published in over 150 magazines in Canada, the US, Britain, India and Australia. She continues to publish poetry and teaches both on-line for Writers In Electronic Residence and as director of Creative Writing at Queen's University. She has edited the anthology Lake Effect: An Anthology of Work by the Creative Writing Students at Queen's University, since 2003.

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Reginald George Hampden Smails was born in England, and studied at Manchester University, University of Chicago and the London School of Economics. He served with the British Army in France and Belgium, and he was awarded the gold medal from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1920. Smails was appointed to the faculty of Queen's University in 1922, and developed the final year of material of the new Chartered Accountants course of instruction with Professor Walker. He also wrote two textbooks which were the principle accounting textbooks in Canada for over 15 years: "Accounting Principles", and "Auditing". Smails was Director of the School of Business at Queen's from 1951-1958, and retired in 1962. Queen's University awarded him an honorary degree LL.D in 1973. R.G.H Smails passed away on March 12 1975.

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Douglas A. Sloan was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

D.A. Sloan was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

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Dorothy Browning Murray Sliter (1905-1997) was born and raised in Kingston. She was the youngest child of David Murray and Lottie Maxwell and she claimed descent from the British poet Robert Browning. Part of her childhood was spent in the family home now know as the "Grey House" which is a part of the Queen's Campus. The house was designed by her father who trained as an architect but ended up managing his father's vinegar factory. A great Uncle, John Clark Murray, was the head of Queen's Philosophy Department in the early 1870's. Dorothy, herself, graduated from Kingston Collegiate Vocational Institute and attended Queen's for a short time.

When she was thirteen, Dorothy Murray first encountered Ernest Sliter a badly wounded First World War Veteran. They met officially when she was seventeen and married when she was twenty one.

Sliter suffered all his life from his war wounds and consequently was forced to live on a very inadequate pension. Since Dorothy was herself not strong and very nervous and thus unable to take employment they lived in some poverty throughout the rest of their lives. To save money, they moved to the country. For ten years the Sliter's lived at Abbey Dawn as tenants of the poet Wallace Havelock Robb. Later they moved to Verona where they could be nearer to a doctor.

Dorothy had been a writer all of her life. In her youth she wrote some twenty novels which she destroyed before she married as she considered them to be immature. In later years she consorted with poets, especially through Robb and his "Abbey Dawn Poet's Festivals" which attracted the likes of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Wilson MacDonald, Charles Andrew Tupper and Nathaniel Benson. Sliter brought her own poetry to these gatherings but she was far too nervous to read it herself so her husband Ernie did her readings for her.

Over the years Dorothy Sliter published a number of books of poetry including, "Meadow Long Day" (1939); "High Wind" (1944); "Father Lucas and Other Poems" (1971). As well as poetry she published " The Friendly Village" (1967), an anecdotal history of Verona and her "Memoirs" (1980).

Ernie Sliter died in 1976 and Dorothy lived on in Verona, battling failing eyesight and poor health until just before her death in 1997. She is survived by two nieces and three nephews: Murray Dell, Jeffrey Dell and Barbara Dell MacGowan of Niagara Falls area; Dr. John D. Murray of Toronto and Shirley Hodgins Brind of Geneva, New York.