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The Rev. George Douglas was born in Scotland in 1825 to John and Mary (Hood) Douglas. He emigrated with his family to Canada seven years later, settling in Montreal. Ordained in 1850, his first post was in the West Indies, however, ill-health forced him to return to Montreal in 1852 where he eventually became the first Principal of the newly established Wesleyan Theological College at McGill University. He remained in this position until his death in 1894. In 1854, George Douglas had married Maria Bolton Pearson, much against her father's wishes. Together they had four daughters. Allie, the youngest daughter of George and Maria Douglas, travelled widely throughout Canada and the United States on an evangelical mission with her husband John Arthur Vibert. Mina, the second daughter of George and Maria, helped establish the Old Brewery Mission in Montreal in 1892.

George Vibert Douglas, son of John and Allie (Douglas) Vibert, was born 2 July 1892. He attended McGill University, receiving a B.Sc. in 1920 and an M.Sc. the following year. Upon leaving University, George Douglas served as geologist on Sir Ernest Shackelton's "Quest" expedition (1921-1922) to Antarctica. He returned to Canada in 1932 as the first incumbent in the newly established Carnegie Chair of Geology at Dalhousie University; a position he held until his retirement in 1957. He died on 8 October 1958.

Harold Huston Stewart was a Queen's professor of electrical engineering and technical director of CFRC radio station.

Writer, founding member and first president of the Faculty Women's Club of the University of Alberta and Queen's University, wife of Queen's University Principal R.C. Wallace.

Leader of the Ontario Progressive and Ontario Liberal Parties, Toronto and Brant, Ont.

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Pat Pearce (1915-1986) was born Maire Patricia Finlay in Belfast, N. Ireland. Trained as a secretary in Fleet Street, she was working in journalism in Britain at the time of the Second World War. She came to Canada in the second year of the war. She began as a book reviewer and drama critic with the Montreal Herald newspaper in 1951. She soon moved to radio and television reviews and, in 1957, joined the Montreal Star as radio and television reviewer with her own column. In 1968 the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (original title) was set up to monitor broadcasting and licensing. Pat was one of the first four full-time commissioners appointed in April 1968. The initial appointment was for four years. Pat was reappointed in April 1975 and resigned in April 1979. Pat Pearce early developed an interest in community broadcasting, especially in northern Canada, and by the aboriginal peoples. She chaired some of the earliest public hearings in the North West Territories. On her retirement Pat Pearce returned to Ireland where she died in 1986.

The "Trafalgar Institute" was founded in 1871 by Donald Ross, who bequeathed the bulk of his estate for the establishment of the first English girls' school in Montreal. Additional financial assistance from several prominent Montrealers such as Sir Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona) enabled the school to open its doors in 1887

Thomas R. Williams served the Queen’s community for thirty years in various capacities, including as a professor, dean and vice-principal. He came out of retirement to become the university’s 19th Principal and Vice-Chancellor on May 1, 2008, following the resignation of Dr. Karen Hitchcock. He concluded his term on August 31, 2009 and was succeeded by Dr. Daniel Woolf.

During his term as Principal, Dr. Williams concentrated on addressing the growing gap between the university’s revenues and expenditures. He led Vice-Principals and Deans in developing a three-year budget strategy, involved the campus community in numerous discussions, and set up a series of task force groups to deal with issues including cost control, revenue generation, communications, space, human resources and use of technology. Dr. Williams also oversaw the renaming of the former Policy Studies Building as Robert Sutherland Hall, in honour of Robert Sutherland (c. 1830-1878), the first student and graduate of colour at Queen's and one of the university's most important early benefactors.

Dr. Williams began his post-secondary education at McGill University where he graduated in 1960 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He stayed on at McGill to complete two degrees in education before working at the University of Chicago. He earned his doctorate in education from the University of Michigan before continuing on to work with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Williams arrived at Queen’s in 1977, taking up the position of Dean of the Faculty of Education, a role he held until 1986. He also served as a professor in the Faculty of Education and in the School of Policy Studies. He served as Vice-Principal of Operations and as Vice-Principal of Institutional Relations under the leadership of Principal David Chadwick Smith (1984-1994).

During his term as Principal, Dr. Williams secured funding for a new medical school building and the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

Dr. Williams is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Education and School of Policy Studies. His contributions to the Kingston community include serving on the boards of both the Kingston General Hosptal and Hotel Dieu Hospital, as well as on the boards of the Kingston Community Foundation and Imagine Kingston.

In October 2009, Queen’s Board of Trustees recognized Dr. Williams’ service to the university by awarding him the designation Principal Emeritus. On October 26, 2009, he received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Queen’s.

F.R.C. (Frederick Robert Charles) Clarke. Organist-choirmaster, composer, teacher, administrator, b Vancouver 7 Aug 1931, d Kingston 18 Nov 2009; ARCT piano 1948, ARCT organ 1951, B MUS (Toronto) 1951, FCCO 1952, D MUS (Toronto) 1954. His teachers included Kenneth Ross (piano) in Vancouver, Eric Rollinson (organ) at the RCMT, and Healey Willan, S. Drummond Wolff, and George Laughlin (theory and composition) at the University of Toronto. Clarke was organist-choirmaster 1950-8 for several churches in Toronto and St Catharines. He also taught 1956-8 at the Hamilton Cons (RHCM) and conducted 1957-8 the St Catharines Civic Orchestra (Niagara Symphony Association). In 1958 he became organist-choirmaster at Sydenham Street United Church in Kingston, Ont, a position he continued to hold in 1991. He was also conductor 1958-77 of the Kingston Choral Society. He lectured 1959-69 at Queen's Theological College and joined Queen's University Music Department in 1964 to teach theory and other subjects. There he founded and conducted 1965-9 the Queen's Chamber Players Ensemble. He was head 1981-8 of the department and after it was renamed the Queen's University School of Music in 1988 he served 1988-91 as director.

Of Clarke's numerous compositions in the English tradition, Bel and the Dragon (1954) was written for his D MUS, Sing a New Song to the Lord (1960) was composed for the United Church of Canada in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the Scottish Reformation, and Psalm 145 (1966) won the CBC (Ottawa) Choral Composition Prize in 1967. Clarke was chairman of the music subcommittee for The Hymn Book of the Anglican and United Churches (1971), to which he contributed 7 tunes and 18 arrangements. His Festival Te Deum (1972) and Reginae (1991) were written for the Kingston Symphony Association to celebrate the tercentennial of the founding of Kingston and the sesquicentennial of the founding of Queen's University respectively. Clarke completed and orchestrated several of Willan's works, including the Introduction and Allegro for string quartet, premiered in 1984 by the Vághy String Quartet, and the Dirge for Two Veterans and Requiem Mass, premiered in 1985 and 1988 respectively by the Kingston Symphony with the Kingston Choral Society. He was a contributor to EMC and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.