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Teacher, Glengarry, Ont.

The Grass family were among the founding Loyalist families in Kingston.

Clergyman and author.

No information is available on the creator of this fonds.

Jason Albert Hannah was born 11 November, 1899 in Stittsville, Ontario. In 1903 the family moved west to Saskatchewan, then the Northwest Territories. After serving in the Canadian army from 1916 to 1919, Hannah returned to school. He attended Queen's University and received a B.A. in 1926 and an M.D. in 1928. During 1928-29 Dr. Hannah did postgraduate work in neuropathology. In 1929-30 he received the George Christian Hoffman Fellowship in Pathology and sudied in the Royal Asylum's Laboratory in Edinburgh. From 1930 to 1937 Dr. Hannah was a neuropathologist for the Ontario Department of Health and concurrently a research fellow at the Banting Institute in Toronto. During this period he won the Institute's Silver Medal for work on the cause of subdural hematoma. In 1937 Dr. Hannah left his government post to organize and preside over Associated Medical Services, Canada's first prepayment plan operating on a fee for service basis for medical and hospital care. Dr. Hannah continued with AMS until his death in 1977.

Doctor John Harry was the physician to Alexander I of Russia at St. Petersburg.

Romuald (Rom) R. Landau (1899-1974) was a sculptor, author, educator and Arabist. He was born in Poland, and became a British citizen, serving as a volunteer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He authored many works in regards to Morocco and the Middle East during the 1950s and 1960s. Landau taught Islamic Studies at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Califonia, and was also an artist and art critic. He had extensive knowledge of Arabic issues, which earned him a place on the Arab committee of the Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office.

The Landon family lived in the township of Lansdown, County of Leeds, District of Johnstown in the province of Upper Canada. Both Joseph and Abner Landon served as Town Clerks for a number of years.

Dr. Michael Lavell was the chair of obstetrics in the Faculty of Medicine at Queen's University (starting in 1860), later the first dean of the Kingston Women's Medical College, and also the surgeon (since 1872) and Warden of Kingston Penitentiary, starting in Janury 1885.

Born in 1912, in Toronto, and known to thousands of students as "The Padre," the Rev. Dr. A. Marshall Laverty served as Chaplain at Queen's University at Kingston for 36 years (1947-1983), and is one of the University's best-known personalities. He was educated at the University of Toronto, graduating with honours in 1937. "Marsh" as he was also affectionately known, was ordained a minister in the United Church of Canada in the same year and served in parishes in Toronto, Manitoulin Island, and Stirling, Ontario, before enlisting as a Chaplain in the Canadian army in 1942 and serving with troops in Europe. In 1947, he was appointed Queen's Chaplain. He has acted as a minister, advisor, counsellor, and friend to generations of students and his organizational skills and contacts across Canada have been of immeasurable benefit to the University. Famed for his rhetorical skills and prodigious memory for names, he has also been active on behalf of numerous charitable organizations in the Kingston area, and served on the Frontenac County Board of Education for more than 30 years. He retired from his position as Chaplain in 1983, but has remained extremely active in the University community. He has received numerous awards from Queen's and other Canadian institutions. A. Marshall Laverty was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1985, and received an honorary doctorate from Queen's in 1991.