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The Kingston Poor Relief Society was interchangeably referred to as the City Poor Relief Committee and the Kingston Poor Relief Association. While not an official organ of local government, much of their financial support was derived from the City Treasury, with donations from individuals, organizations and churches also contributing to their fund. The main activity of the Society seems to have been the disbursement of funds. The funds of the association were predominantly for elderly people, widows and children: the “worthy poor”, with most of the monies going to the food and fuel accounts which were covered or heavily subsidized by the Society. There were occasional expenditures for clothing or footwear. The Society was most active during the fall and winter seasons often adjourning for the summer.
The Executive of the Society was composed of many prominent women of the City of Kingston (Richardson, Oberndorffer, Machar, Corbett) who conducted visits to homes and investigated needy cases. While some claim has been made that this Society was the continuance of the Female Benevolent Society which dated back to 1821, there are also other sources which more reliably have it dating to 1867, often being called the Committee of the Poor Relief and closely related with the City Mission Association.

Dr Maudsley received his medical degree from Queen’s University in 1962. A year after receiving a Fellowship for Royal College in 1968, he joined the newly created Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University as a professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and served in various leadership positions. In 1988, he was appointed as the first Vice-Dean of Medicine at Queen’s University and also as professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. From 1989 to 1996 he co-directed the landmark project, Educating Future Physicians for Ontario. He retired from Queen's University as Professor Emeritus in 1996. From 2000-2002, Maudsley served as the Dean of Health Sciences at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. In 2004, he was appointed Executive Director of the Clinical Assessment for Practice Programme of the College for Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia and in 2008 became the Royal College’s Associate Director, Internationally Educated Health Professionals. Dr. Robert Maudsley passed away in Ottawa on October 25, 2012.

Dr. Janet Patricia Bews was born on December 18 1938. She was an adjunct professor in the Department of Classics at Queen's University. Dr. Bews received her B.A (Honours) from Queen's, followed by her M.A from King's College University of London, and her PhD from Royal Holloway College University of London. Her teaching specialties were in Latin and Classical Literature. In addition to her teaching career at Queen's, she also was a professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Trent University.

Queen’s University Institute for Lifelong Learning (QUILL) was founded in 1993. Its purpose is to offer opportunities for people later in life to continue learning through easily accessible programs. Although there is no age requirement to join QUILL, most people are retired. QUILL's members are across the Kingston community. Most of the programming takes place via weekly lectures and discussion groups.

William Thomson Freeland was born in 1870. While very few details of his career have survived, he is known to have had some interest in photographing boats using a large format or panoramic camera as early as the 1890s. He operated a photographic studio for a period of time on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto but it is unknown how long it was in operation or the type of work that was carried out. It is known that Freeland did some work for the Department of Agriculture.

Perhaps his best known photograph is a panoramic photograph of Toronto that is currently housed in the City of Toronto Archives, Library and Archives Canada and the Toronto Reference Library collection. Created in 1903, "this image, comprising the whole horizon, begins and ends at Union Station . . . ". There are other Freeland panoramas in existence from the same period but none approach the size of the Niagara Falls photographs recently uncovered. Freeland died in 1945 at the age of 75.