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On December 1, 1975 the first proposal for an artists’ cooperative for Kingston was put forward to the Chair of the Visual and Creative Arts Department of St. Lawrence College.

During the summer of 1976 research into the feasibility of the project was carried out. Rental of a space was investigated, aims and objectives were formulated, and matters of incorporation were pursued. A comprehensive mailing list of local artists was developed, biographical information and slides were collected and the first memberships were taken out. .

An initial and interim Board of Directors were elected at a General Meeting of interested parties, in November of 1976. Those Board members were: JoAnne Abrams; Toby Anderson; R. E. Buff; Gaye Bullock; Jeffery Childs; Lorne Coutts; Alana Kapell; William Roff; Alan Wilkinson; and Lenni Workman.

Priority was given to the need for space for a gallery and studio spaces, and several potential facilities were investigated. However, while the cost of downtown Kingston space was found to be too high for the group, St. Lawrence College rented 325 King St. East to facilitate the development of the artist-run center, and the initial St. Lawrence Art Project (S.L.A.P.) was established there.

The first Gala Party and Membership Drive was held in June 1977 and resulted in 30 new members. The group gained its legal non-profit status in August 1977 and became known as the Kingston Artists Association Incorporated (K.A.A.I). In October 1977, the K.A.A.I was officially incorporated. Its main aims were to provide a focal organization and meeting place for artists and the public, to provide studio and workshop space and a gallery for exhibition purposes, and to collect and disseminate information about local artists.

Just one year later, the K.A.A.I amalgamated with “Another Space Gallery” originally owned by Lee Kozlik, and located at 191 Princess Street. Later that year, the Kingston Artists’ Association Inc./ Another Space Gallery moved to 21A Queen Street, and at that time re-named itself Kingston Artists’ Association Inc. & Gallery.

The new association provided art exhibitions, performance events, art festivals, newsletters, and an artists’ index. The first outside funding came from Ontario Educational Communications Authority in 1978.

By January 1979, the membership had grown to 57. The Association applied for operating and project grants with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. By 1980, funding was secured from both of these bodies. The more secure financial situation made it possible put into place a policy that ensured fees were paid to the artists for exhibiting at the Gallery.

Herbert Bernard Sturgess was born in the north end of Kinsgton (a fact he is very proud of), in his home at 37 Dufferin Street (now the sight of a large grocery store), 17 June 1936. As the house was directly across the street from Robert Meek School, he did not have far to go to attend classes. With the untimely death of his father, Herbert Georege Sturgess, at age forty-four, Herb Sturgess at fourteen, was forced to look for work in order to help support his mother and siblings. Herb Sturgess passed away 17 June 2011.

A group, not a guild, Kingston Heirloom Quilters (KHQ) was established in 1979 by graduate students of quilting classes, taught jointly by Margaret Rhodes and Diane Berry. This two-level program endorsed the principles of traditional quiltmaking, every stitch by hand, every aspect of the craft executed with care and accuracy. It was a learning and sharing experience that the students did not want to end. Directed by their former teachers, they worked together on group quilts, learning to build them one step at a time, and being ever open to that unpredictable effect that would lift them a little above the ordinary. They try the latest trends and techniques, then return to their greatest joy, the making of Masterpiece Quilts.

Currently numbering about 60 members, they gather twice each month in rented space in Calvin Park Library. To begin with, much of the quilting was done in the main part of the Library, where they we were allowed to set up their frame as a working display, and quilted at it during Library hours. This opportunity contributed greatly to the development of the group. Originally, membership was restricted to former students of the Rhodes/Berry quilting course, but after a few years these classes were disbanded as directing the group took up most of their leaders' time. On KHQ's Fifth Anniversary, that membership restriction was lifted so that the group could continue to grow and thrive.

Their quiltmaking skills have developed through working together on more than twenty group quilts during the past two decades. Each one provided them with a valuable learning experience. All are unique, and most simply evolved as they were worked on, one stage at a time. They learned from the shared experiences of members working on their own quilts. Much of this was acquired during lunch hour 'critiques' when all would participate in the solution of one another's quiltmaking dilemmas. But, it was the group quilts that taught them the most. They strove always to do what was best for the quilt without being swayed by personal preference.

Although their status is 'not for profit', and fundraising not a mandate, six of these quilts have been raffled, raising in excess of $30,000 for local charities. A few are housed in the Heritage Quilt Collection, of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, located on the campus of Queen's University. This Collection, which represents 150 years of Quiltmaking, was established by three of members who despaired of seeing antique quilts from the Kingston area being sold off and taken out of country. The gallery was at first hesitant to accept these quilts, but they have proven to be one of it's most popular attractions. Kingston Heirloom Quilters raised $15,000 towards the production of a catalogue, published in 1990, that documents this collection. The proceeds from the sale of these books are used to support the Collection. They also produce an ongoing supply of baby quilts for local hospital to pass on to the needy.

Several of their group quilts, as well as those of different members have been juried into major shows and featured in magazines, both in Canada and the USA. The Kingston Heirloom Quilters, mount a major quilt show every three or four years.

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Hartwell W.B. Illsey was born in Castor Alberta, but was raised in Montreal, following his family's removal to that city. He attended school in St. Lambert, and at Westmount High School, and Montreal High School, from where he graduated in 1935. For the next four years, he worked for The Steel Compnay of Canada and Dominion Rubber Company Limited. In 1939, he moved to Hull, Quebec, where he was employed with the E.B. Eddy Paper Company. During the pre-war years Hartwell Illsey served in the N.P.A.M. with the 3rd Field Royal Canadian Engineers. In June 1941, he enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force, at Ottawa. After receiving his pilot's wings at Moncton in April 1942, he married Elizabeth Mitchell in Montreal the same month. They have three children. H.W.B. Illsey served as Staff Pilot in the Bombing and Gunnery School, located in Jarvis, Ontario. In 1944, he went overseas, flying at Advanced Flying and Operational Training Units in England. In 1945, he returned to Canada. H.W.B. Illsey felt the call to the Christian Ministry during his flying service and upon receiving his discharge, he enrolled at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. He graduated with his B.A. in 1949, and from Queen's Theological College two years later, when he was ordained into the United Church of Canada. Padre Illsey has served in many parts of Western Canada (Empress, Brooks, Calgary, Alberta; and Esquimalt and Victoria, Birtish Columbia), and undertook Chaplaincy duties at a number of RCAF Stations across Canada. Hartwell W.B. Illsey, who also held a B.D. degree from St. Mary's Theological College in Scotland, and an Masters of Divinity from Queen's University at Kingston (1965), died in 2002.

Tommy Riedel was a blacksmith at Willowbank Forge in Bath, Ontario. He was married to Isabelle Palmer.

Isabelle Palmer of Bath, Ontario was married to Tommy Riedel.

The Faculty of Health Sciences was established in 1854, after more than a decade of effort by Queen's officials to add a medical school to the young University. It began in a small limestone house at 75 Princess Street, soon thereafter moving to Summerhill, where the rest of the University was located. In 1858, it moved into the first permanent building that Queen's built for itself: the Old Medical Building. In 1866, however, the Faculty split from the University after medical professors – less theologically-minded than their colleagues – protested against having to make a public declaration of the Presbyterian faith. The Faculty became the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston (RCPSK), which retained a loose affiliation with the University. The RCPSK eventually reunited with Queen's in 1892, in order to share resources and expertise.

The Faculty grew enormously in the 20th century, evolving into one of Canada's premier centres for medical research, as well as teaching. In recent decades, the most important development in medical education was the establishment in the 1960s of the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, which brought the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Nursing together with local hospitals to provide cooperative facilities for exemplary patient care, research, and training. Planning for a nursing program at Queen's began in 1941 The first students were admitted in the Fall of 1942 and the first Director of the School of Nursing was appointed in 1946. In 1979, the School of Rehabilitation Therapy, originally a stand alone unit, became part of the Faculty.

In 1998, the School of Medicine and School of Rehabilitation Therapy were joined by the School of Nursing to become the current Faculty of Health Sciences. Today the Faculty has about 330 full-time faculty members but many more part-time, since every doctor with attending privileges at Kingston General Hospital, Hotel Dieu Hospital, and Providence Continuing Care Centre's St. Mary's of the Lake Hospital site normally holds a faculty appointment in the School of Medicine as well. The Faculty of Health Sciences forms the academic core of the Academic Health Sciences Centre, and is also part of the Health Care Network of Southeastern Ontario. Academic programs are based on campus but are distributed throughout southeastern Ontario's health care facilities, including affiliations with Quinte Healthcare Corporation, Lakeridge Hospital, Peterborough, Perth, Brockville, Weeneebayko (Moose Factory) being amongst many other sites. The innovative Alternative Funding Plan (AFP), a contractual agreement of SEAMO and the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care and the Ministry of Community & Social Services, provides stable funding for the delivery of research, education and extensive tertiary, secondary and some primary care in a region of over one million people.

The Faculty offers programs in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education; undergraduate education in Physical and Occupational Therapy, and graduate education in Rehabilitation Science; undergraduate and postgraduate education in Nursing, including the Nurse Practitioner Program; graduate education in the Life Sciences; and collaborative programs in Respiratory Therapy and in X-Ray Technology. Main offices of the Faculty are located in Botterell Hall.

Degrees conferred by the Faculty include: Doctor of Medicine (MD), Bachelor of Nursing Sciences (BNSc), Master of Science, Nursing (MSc), Bachelor of Science Physical Therapy (B.Sc. P.T.), Bachelor of Science, Occupational Therapy (B.Sc.O.T.), Master of Science, Rehabilitation Science (M.Sc.), Doctor of Philosophy, Rehabilitation Science (Ph.D.), Master of Science, Life Sciences (M.Sc.), Doctor of Philosophy, Life Sciences (Ph.D.) .Schools under the auspisces of the Faculty of Health Sciences include: Medicine, Nursing, Rehabilitation TherapyDepartments: Anatomy & Cell Biology, Anesthesiology, Biochemistry, Community Health & Epidemiology, Diagnostic Radiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Oncology, Opthalmology, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmcology & Toxicology, Physiology, Psychiatry, Rehabilition Medicine, Surgery and Urology.

The Faculty of Health Sciences established the Tony Travill Debate in memory of Professor A.A.Travill (1925-1996), MBBS(London), MRCS(Eng), LRCP(London), MSc(Med)(Queen's), former head of the Anatomy Department at Queen's University (1969-1978). Dr Travill was an excellent teacher, physician, philosopher and historian, who was a devotee of logical argument and witty debate. This annual event allows medical researchers to debate a controversial topic in medicine from two different perspectives, both supported by research.

George William Henry Comer was born the third son of John F.R. Comer and Elizabeth Barbara Comer on October 21, 1840 in Niagara, Upper Canada. The Comer family moved to a number of different places in Upper Canada including Port Robinson, Chippewa and Kingston. While in Kingston, George Comer attended grammar school from 1850 to 1854.

After leaving school Comer studied the business of printing, working at the Commercial Advertiser office in Kingston. George Comer continued to work in printing over the next ten years though not exclusively in Kingston. He worked for The Constitutional in St. Catherines, The Times in Hamilton, The Herald in Cleveland, Ohio and The Lorain County News in Oberlin, Ohio.

Comer returned to Kingston, Canada in 1861where he continued working at a variety of printing and accounting jobs. In 1868 George Comer was granted a Purser's position with the Canadian Navigation Company. His first appointment was on the Steamer Corinthian, and throughout the next twenty seasons worked on that ship as well as the Algerian and Spartan. During the winters Comer worked as a bookkeeper for a variety of companies and businesses in the area.

On April 1, 1891 George Comer was personally appointed to the Customs Department as a Preventative Officer by Sir John A. Macdonald. He worked for the Department for over 25 years and in 1919 received the Long Service Medal from King George IV.

George W. H. Comer died on January 5th, 1929. He had been predeceased by his wife Ellen Elizabeth Charles, of Garden Island and was survived by three of his seven children, Jessie Comer, Bessie Comer and Elizabeth Cassa White.