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At its meeting in April 1932, the Executive of Kingston Art and Music Club proposed that the conveners of the three groups meet with the George Taylor Richardson Bequest Committee to discuss the possibility of continuing independently from the parent body.

This proposal met with a favourable response at the annual meeting of the Art Group, and so, on 11 October 1932, a meeting was held to reorganize the group. A constitution was adopted unanimously, and the Kingston Art Association (KAA) came into existence. Under a new Executive consisting of President, Professor Reginald G. Trotter; Vice-President, Mr. Ernest Cockburn Kyte; and Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Annie Gibson, the nineteen members of the KAA set down its purpose as being “to encourage the practice, study and appreciation of art among its members and in the City of Kingston.”

With these objectives in mind, the Association busied itself with arranging lectures and exhibitions and obtaining professional instruction for its members who were painters. Under the energetic leadership of its president, Professor Trotter, the KAA was able to persuade the Carnegie Foundation in 1933, to grant money to Queen’s for the promotion of interest and activity in art, both among residents of the community and students of the University. The funds made available by this grant allowed for art classes to be conducted for elementary, secondary, high school, and university students, as well as for adults. They were led by Miss Barbara Lowe (Assistant in Art at Queen’s) and by Mr. Goodridge Roberts, a Montreal artist, who became Artist-in-Residence at Queen’s for the next three years.

However, the Carnegie Foundation withdrew its funding in 1936, and it was at this point that Agnes Etherington, once more, came to the rescue. She offered to provide enough funds for the appointment of a new artist-in-residence at Queen’s, on the condition that the University recognized the work of students studying under this person as counting towards of a degree in Fine Arts. The University agreed, and André Bieler was appointed to the position in the autumn of 1936.

The Kingston Art Association’s programme of providing instruction and practice to members, residents, and students continued through the War years and into the 1980s, and exhibitions, including the ever-popular and increasingly sophisticated annual spring exhibit of works by KAA members, such as André Bieler and Grant MacDonald became an annual event. .

By the mid-1950s, the demand for a more ambitious and varied programme led the Association to undertake a slightly expanded calendar of public lectures, exhibitions, and discussions. This expansion however, led the Treasurers to report a deficit in 1955, and forced the KAA to approach the Mayor and Council of Kingston for financial support in early 1956. The request was turned down and the organization was obliged to raise its membership fees (its only source of revenue) for the first time in living memory.

The year 1957 brought the KAA a step closer to realizing the one objective, first posited in 1932, which had yet to be achieved – namely to obtain for Kingston a permanent collection of paintings to be housed in a community art gallery. The result of the generous giving of her house to the University by Agnes Etherington now offered the chance for the housing of a permanent art collection in a fixed location. The relationship of the Association to the University became even closer than in the past. In the spring of 1957, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (AEAC) opened its doors to the community. For many years the Association, while a civic group, had enjoyed close ties with the University – the latter had offered the use of meeting rooms in Douglas Library, as well as exhibition space; and KAA members had been instrumental in assisting the University Art Committee, and especially the Queen’s University Art Foundation during World War Two, to acquire several major collections which would form the nucleus of a permanent art collection in the City of Kingston. In short, the Association had always been very closely related to the University, and had promoted the collections held and displayed on campus to the larger public.

With the opening of the AEAC in Etherington House on University Avenue, and its subsequent additions, it became increasingly apparent over the succeeding years that energies and talents should be pooled into one cohesive and dynamic organization. Thus, in early 1965, it was recommended by a Special Committee of the Executive, charged with looking into the future role of the KAA that “the Kingston Art Association as such, disband and that its members be free to joint the newly proposed Gallery Association as they see fit.” This notion, when presented to members as a whole on 5 May 1965, carried unanimously. The Kingston Art Association, after a large and fruitful effort to keep an interest in painting and paintings alive and thriving in Kingston, dissolved on the 19 July 1965.

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Dr. Herbert Clarence Burleigh, a general practitioner and local historian in Bath, Ontario, was born on 6 October 1893 at Hartington, Ontario and died on 13 September 1980. Dr. Burleigh was descendent of United Empire Loyalists. He attended Sydenham High School, 1910-1913 and during the First World War served with the Number 7 Canadian General (Queen's) Hospital. Following his medical studies at Queen's, (1920 - 1926) Dr. Burleigh practiced medicine in the United States until 1935 when he returned to Canada so that his children might be raised and educated in his homeland. That year he established a private medical practice in Bath, Ontario. In 1937, he became Medical Officer of Health for Lennox and Addington County and the Founder and President of the Bath Historical Society. During the Second World War, he joined the R.C.A.M.C. (1940 - 1946) retiring as Lieutenant Colonel in command of #3 Company. Between 1947 and 1950, he served in the reserve forces as Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Section, No. 5 Manning Depot, Kingston. In 1975, he retired from his medical practice in Bath. From 1922 on Dr. Burleigh had been showing an interest in genealogy and local history. This interest blossomed with his return to Canada in 1935 and he pursued his hobby as a genealogist and historian from that time until his death in 1980. In 1948, he published an article on "Madeleine de Roybon d'Allonne". He was founding and life member of the United Empire Loyalist Association, Bay of Quinte Branch as well as their genealogist. He published a number of books on local history including "Forgotten Leaves of Kingston", "The Romance of Fort Frontenac" and "Tales of Amherst Island", as well as many papers. Over the years, Dr. Burleigh created a huge collection of genealogical files on local families and an even larger set of files on local history.

Margaret Davis (née Nickle) was born in 1863.

Lieut. Col. Thomas Ashmore Kidd was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario in 1930-1934 and served as Conservative MLA for Kingston from 1926 to 1940 and Progressive Conservative MP for Kingston City from 1945 to 1949.

He was born in Burritt's Rapids, Ontario, the son of Edward Kidd, and was educated there and in Kemptville. Kidd was a manufacturer and wholesale merchant. He served in France with the Royal Regiment of Canada in 1915 and was wounded at Ypres. In 1920, he married Eva Richardson, the daughter of senator Henry Westman Richardson. Kidd was a member of Kingston city council from 1922 to 1926 and also served on the Kingston Board of Works. He won the Conservative nomination in Kingston after the incumbent Conservative, William Folger Nickle, resigned from the cabinet of Howard Ferguson in order to protest the government's decision to run for re-election on the platform of repealing the Ontario Temperance Act and allowing government controlled liquor sales. Kidd defeated Nickle who ran as a Prohibitionist candidate in the 1926 provincial election.

Kidd was re-elected in the 1929 provincial election and served as Speaker of the Ontario Legislative Assembly from 1930 until 1934.

He resigned from the provincial legislature to run unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1940 federal election but won on his second attempt in 1945. Kidd was defeated in bid for re-election in 1949 and again when he tried to return to politics in 1957. Kidd was also a Grand Master in the Orange Lodge.

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In the 1830s a commission consisting of the Honourable John Macaulay, Hugh C. Thompson and Henry Smith Sr. had purchased lot N0. 20 in the first concession of the Township of Kingston as a site for a provincial penitentiary. KP is the first structure erected in British North America to reflect the requirements of the late 18th century prison reforms, namely one prisoner per cell, classification of the inmate population by seriousness of the crime committed, constant supervision, and a rehabilitative labour program. Construction began on the facility in 1834 and the first wing, the south cellblock, opened a year later. The other three wings of the main building, the hospital, dining room, shops, walls and towers were constructed by the inmates themselves. The cellblocks and the rotunda were not completed until 1860 Kingston Penitentiary opened on June 1, 1835, during the reign of King William IV. As the "Provincial Penitentiary of Upper Canada", KP welcomed its first six inmates that day, and thereby marked the birth of Correctional Service Canada and the beginning of 162 years of correctional history in this country. Initially the institution was operated by a warden, a deputy warden, a clerk, a surgeon, two instructors, one labourer, one matron, six keepers and six guards, then called watchmen. Once the institution was under the control of Upper Canadian authorities, convicts were put to work erecting new stone structures and building a high stone wall surrounding the prison grounds. Shortly after Confederation in 1867, the Kingston Penitentiary was taken over by the Domonion government and continues to function as a federal prison.