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Col. Joel Stone, United Empire Loyalist and founder of Gananoque, was born at Guilford, Connecticut, 1749, to Stephen Stone and his wife Rebecca Bishop, both members of families that took part in the original settlement of Guilford in 1639. The Stone family removed, in 1751, to Litchfield County, Connecticut, where shortly before the Revolutionary War Joel Stone entered business as a general merchant. A known loyalist, Stone took refuge in New York toward the end of 1776 and during the remainder of the war served as a volunteer. Frrom 1783 to 1786 Stone was in London seeking compensation for confiscated property. In 1786 he sailed for Quebec and by the following year was settled with his family at New Johnstown (Cornwall). About 1792 Stone took up residence at the mouth of the Gananoque River, becoming the first white settler at what was to become the town of Gananoque. During the next forty years he was the principal land-owner and leading citizen of the little community, acting as justice of the peace, customs collector and roads commissioner. During the War of 1812 he conducted the defence of Gananoque in his capacity of Colonel in the Leeds militia. He died in 1833..

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John Rhodes Sturdy was an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy and a writer. He was originally hired as technical advisor for the film Corvette K-225 however, given his expertise he was asked to write the entire screenplay. Also by Sturdy: "Without Convoy"(1943); " Cariboo Trail" (1950); and technical advisor for "Canadian Pacific" (1949).

The Sun (or Bowmanville Sun) was a newspaper published in Bowmanville from 1883-1890.

Brigadier General James Sutherland-Brown was born in 1881 at Simcoe, Ontario. He had a distinguished military career beginning as a member of the 39th Regiment Norfolk Rifles in 1896. He attended the Staff College at Camberley, England, in 1914 and served overseas in the First World War. He was awarded a D.S.O. in 1916 and a C.M.G. in 1918. He continued in the army after the war attending Imperial Staff College in 1928 and being commanding officer of Military District No. II, British Columbia.

The Takiteeze Club was a hunting camp formed 11 September 1914 by PCR Travers, CD Schnebly, at Lot 23 on Isle Plate, Lake St. Louis, Quebec. Its objective was "to be a means of giving a good time to members and friends, especially during Duck Shooting Season."

Born in 1869 in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, Rev. Robert Bruce Taylor was Queen's 9th principal (1917-1930) and the last clergyman to hold the position. He was born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland and educated at the Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow in Scotland and the Universities of Marburg and Gottingen in Germany. Taylor served as a minister in various parishes in Scotland and England from 1896 until 1911, when he came to Canada to take charge of St Paul's Church in Montreal, where he quickly gained a reputation as one of the country's foremost preachers and public speakers. Taylor had been granted an honorary degree from Queen's a year before his appointment. It was largely on the strength of this reputation that he was appointed Principal of Queen's in 1917. On top of being an effective fundraiser, Taylor also had good relations with faculty and students for most of his term. But he did not enjoy the administrative aspects of the job and left that work to others wherever possible.

The main achievements of his term were the building of Douglas Library in 1924, the founding of the Alumni Association, and the expansion of professional and scientific education at the university, including the first commerce courses in Canada. George Richardson Memorial Stadium, Jock Harty Arena, the Students' Memorial Union (see John Deutsch University Centre), and Ban Righ Hall were all also built in the 1920s.

Taylor's great difficulty while at Queen's was dealing with student government. He made criticisms of the Alma Mater Society's court system which, though valid, were presented with an attitude that was disagreeable to the students, who came into conflict with him a number of times.

His term ended on a low note after students went on a brief strike in March 1928 to protest the suspension of three students who had organized an unsanctioned dance in downtown Kingston.

The students were adamant that the University had no business regulating their behavior off campus. Queen's Trustees were displeased with how Taylor handled the situation and when he
learned of this, he chose to resign.

After his retirement, Taylor was minister for a time at the Church of Scotland in Rome. He later bought a house in Cannes, France, where he lived a quiet life and published a four volume work entitled Ancient Hebrew Literature. Taylor and his wife left France in 1940 and stayed in British Colombia until after WWII. They then returned to France, where Taylor died in 1955. He's buried in Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston.