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Rawlyk, George Alexander

  • CA QUA01000
  • Person
  • 1935-1995

Dr. George Alexander Rawlyk, a prominent Canadian religious historian, was born in 1935 in Thorold, Ontario and died on 23 November 1995 in Ottawa, Ontario. He was educated at McMaster University (B.A., 1957), Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1957), and the University of Rochester (M.A., 1962, and Ph.D., 1966). From 1959-1961, Dr. Rawlyk lectured in History at Mount Allison University, and then was Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University from 1961 to 1966. From 1966 until his death, he was at Queen's University at Kingston (Associate Professor 1966-1969, and Professor after 1969). He was Chairman of the Department of History from 1976 to 1985. Throughout the years, he was Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, the University of Prince Edward Island and McGill University, Acadia University, and the University of New Brunswick. He was also Scholar in Residence at Harvard University, and at Cushwa Centre, Notre Dame University. Dr. Rawlyk held several positions on the Canadian Historical Association. He has also been a Council Member of the Champlain Society and a member of the Editorial Board of Acadiensis. He was also Chairman, Board of Directors, of the McGill-Queen's University Press from 1983-1984, and 1985-1986. He was Chair and President, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994-1995. He was the author of about thirty books as well as numerous articles in edited works and scholarly journals in Canada and the United States. Dr. Rawlyk's writing included research for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism and the Task Force on Canadian Unity. He was also heavily involved in the 1993 Angus Reid Poll on Religious life in Canada.

Ravenhill, Alice

  • CA QUA10744
  • Person
  • fl. 1930s

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Rattigan, Clive

  • CA QUA10743
  • Person
  • fl. 1930s

No information is available about this creator.

Rathbun Company

  • CA QUA01682
  • Corporate body
  • n.d.

Lumber company, Deseronto, Ont.

Rasporich, A.W.

  • CA QUA11301
  • Person

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Raphael Tuck and Sons'

  • CA QUA09952
  • Corporate body
  • fl. 1910s

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Ranson, William Hendry

  • CA QUA01836
  • Person
  • 1843-1928

William Hendry Ranson was born January 3rd, 1843 in the town of Bury St. Edmunds in the county of Suffolk, England. He joined the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1860. He served in Malta and Corfu for a number of years. In 1867 his regiment was moved to Quebec and in 1868 he volunteered with a number of other soldiers to be stationed at Fort Wellingston, near Prescott. He purchased his discharge while serving at Tete-de-Pont barracks in Kingston, Ontario. Ranson went on to work for the Brockville and Ottawa Railway. He eventually married and settled in Prescott until his death in 1928.

Ransberry, Ian

  • CA QUA09729
  • Person
  • n.d.

Ian Ransberry is a photographer based in St. Catharines, Ontario

Rankin, William Henry

  • CA QUA10010
  • Family

The Rankin family traces its ancestry in the Kingston district to one Captain Daniel McGuin, U.E.L. He was one of the leaders of the Associated Loyalists who settled Kingston Township in 1784. McGuin's son, Anthony, established the family at Collins Bay in 1806 when he bought land out of the "Mile Square" from the Reverend John Stuart. Anthony McGuin and his son, also named Anthony, established a prosperous milling business on Collins Creek and over the years built three fine stone houses along the "Bath Road" near the mills. Anthony Jr. never married and passed on his estate, two of the stone houses and the mills, to his nephew David Rankin. Dr. William Henry Rankin was a grandson of David Rankin. After graduating from Queen's University, M.D. 1889, and studies in Scotland, Dr. Rankin established a successful medical practice near New York City. His wife the former Jennie Reid, purchased the western most of the three Rankin houses in Collins Bay, now 4111 Bath Road, for use by their family. The house was extensively renovated to become a rich man's summer home and the family spent most of their summers there from that time on. The house and these Fonds passed through inheritance to Dr. Rankin's son Reid and from him to the Diane Kennedy the former wife of Mr. Robert Kennedy a grandnephew of Dr. Rankin.

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