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George Theodore de Hueck was born in Toronto in 1921. He was the son of the Baron Boris de Hueck and the Baroness Catherine de Hueck Doherty. He graduated from Queen's University in 1948 as a member of Arts '46 having taken time off to serve in the Canadian military during World War II. As a Lieutenant in the Canadian military he was appointed to a position in the combat teams under the US forces in 1943 when Canada decided to participate with the United States in the Kiska Operations in response to the threat to continental security. While at Queen's de Hueck was editor of the Queen's Commentator, president of the International Club and recipient of the Sir Wilfred Laurier Scholarship. In 1953 he founded a consulting firm for insurance companies, a job he continued to do until his death in Mobile, Alabama in 1991.

Bill Fritz was born in Ferrybank, Alberta on August 14, 1914. While attending Walkerville Collegiate, Fritz set several WSSA, WOSSA, and Ontario records. His 1931 440-yard time of 52.6 seconds was unbroken at the WSSA Intermediate level until 1953. The following year, Fritz set two WSSA Senior records. His 22.4-second 220-yard time lasted until 1975, and his 50.2-second 440-yard time, bettering his Junior record, held until 1965. At the 1932 WOSSA meet, Fritz ran the 440-yard dash in 50 seconds flat, setting a Canadian Inter-Scholastic record.

Fritz went on to study at Queen’s University, where he won eight intercollegiate championships in the 220 and 440-yard races. He was the ninth winner of the Jenkins Trophy, one of the university’s oldest ongoing honours. The prestigious trophy is awarded annually to the school’s most outstanding well-rounded scholar-athlete. During his racing career, Fritz is known to have trained through the winter in Kingston’s snowdrifts. This harsh regimen is said to have propelled him to starring performances against the world’s best at indoor meets in New York and at the Boston Millrose Games.

In 1933, at the age of 23, Fritz contributed to Canadian record in the mile relay that was not broken until ’47. Fritz, Art Scott, Glenn Sherman, and Ray Lauzon combined to set the mark while racing for the Windsor Olympic Club under coach Hec Phillips. Fritz achieved international recognition at the 1934 British Empire Games (now the Commonwealth Games) in London, England. Two years later, at the Berlin Olympics, Fritz finished fifth in the 400-metre final. As part of the Canadian mile relay team, Fritz won a gold medal at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia. Bill Fritz passed away on October 14, 1995 in London, Ontario.

Robert Sutherland was the first student of colour at Queen's University at Kingston, and one of its most important early benefactors. He was born in Jamaica to unknown parents, though there is some evidence that his father was Scottish. He entered Queen's in 1849, just eight years after the university was founded. He may have been the first student of colour in Canada, as well as at Queen's; the subject has not been fully researched, but none of the handful of other universities that existed then have uncovered records of an earlier entrant. Sutherland led an extraordinarily successful academic career at Queen's, winning 14 academic prizes, including one for general merit in Latin that was awarded after a vote by fellow students. He graduated in 1852 with honours in classics and mathematics and went on to study law at Toronto's Osgoode Hall. He was called to the bar in 1855 and moved to the growing town of Walkerton, south of Owen Sound, where he practised law for more than 20 years. He died unmarried in 1878 after contracting pneumonia. He had drawn up his will just three weeks before his death and left his entire $12,000 estate to Queen's. It is unclear why he did so, but friends recalled that he often said Queen's was one place where "he had always been treated as a gentleman." His donation was the largest that any one person had yet given to the university and came at a time when Queen's was still battling its way out of poverty. Principal George Grant ordered that a large granite tombstone be placed on his grave in Toronto's Mt Pleasant Cemetery – where it still stands – to mark his connection with Queen's. The City of Kingston dedicated a plaque in Grant Hall to his memory in 1973. In 1997, the Robert Sutherland Memorial Room was unveiled, located on the third floor of the John Deustch University Centre. In 2009, the Policy Studies building was renamed "Robert Sutherland Hall".

Dr. Margaret E. MacKay Sawyer was a professor of physiology at Queen's University for almost forty years. She was born in New Glasgow Nova Scotia, and received her B.A and M.A in Biology from Dalhousie University. She then received her PhD in Biology in 1930 from McGill University, and continued her postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sawyer moved to Kingston in 1939 and started teaching Physiology at Queen's University: first as a fellow, then a lecturer, and finally as a professor. She continued her research alongside her teaching career and wrote numerous articles for academic journals, such as the American Journal of Physiology. After the passing of her first husband, Dr. Sawyer married Dr. G. Harold Ettinger - a colleague from the Physiology Department - in 1969. Because of this, she is sometime identified as Dr. Margaret Ettinger. She passed away in Kingston in 2003.

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James Morton was born in Killalea, County of Armagh, Ireland, August 24th, 1808 and died in Canada in 1864. Not much of Morton's early life in Ireland is known. Morton came to Kingston the 24th of June, 1824, and was a bookkeeper to Thomas Molson until 1831 when he partnered with a Mr. Drummond to form the Kingston Brewery and Distillery. After the death of Drummond in 1834, Morton became the sole owner of the business and continued it in his own name -- "Morton's Proof", a whiskey, was known and consumed all over Canada. In addition to the Distillery Morton had other business ventures. In conjunction with John R. Dickson he built the Kingston branch of the Grand Trunk Railway, and he established the Ontario Foundry and the Kingston Locomotive Works to build locomotives. He also utilized the labour of convicts from the Kingston Penitentiary to manufacture furniture by steammachinery.

Morton's business success was interrupted when he received a contract for the construction of a Southern Ontario Railway from Buffalo and Fort Erie to Windsor and Detroit. The contract became a matter of legal dispute and an adverse decision by the Court of Chancery was a severe blow to Morton's prosperity.

Although financially struggling, Morton was still well liked in Kingston. With encouragement from his close friend, Sir John A. MacDonald, Morton became a member of the Legislative Assembly for Frontenac in 1861. Morton became ill during these years and rarely sat in the House. He passed away in 1864, survived by his wife, Margaret Morton.

Irene Dixon Bamford was born in the United States in 1834. She moved to Wolfe Island with her husband, Wells Bamford (a sailor). She had three children: Isabel, Wells, and Devolsom.

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This development was designed by the George F. Hardy Company of New York for the Ontario Power Service Corporation, a subsidiary of the Abitibi Power and Paper Company. The actual construction started in 1930, was done by the Dominion Construction Company. In July of 1932 work was discontinued and in November 1932, the Ontario Power Service Corporation was placed in receivership until the development was taken over by the Province of Ontario early in 1933.

The Colony - The Abitibi Canyon colony was established in 1930 to house staff and their families working at the Abitibi Canyon generating station. After construction of the station was completed, staff living in the colony operated and maintained the plant. At one point, passengers going to the Canyon colony travelled by rail to the Fraserdale station where they boarded the Hydro train and proceeded for the a distance of 5.6 km (3.5 miles) to the colony's siding or splashed down into a station head pond by small float plane. By 1966, a 74 km (165 mile) road to Smooth Rock Falls was built ending the sense of isolation.

During the mid 1940's there were about 130 people in the Hydro community which contained 30 permanent homes, four temporary houses and five privately owned houses. There was also a well equipped staff house, community hall, an enclosed skating rink, a shooting range, school, hospital, general store, post office and church.

At the time, the high school had a special dispensation from the Ontario Department of Education making it possible to take pupils from Kindergarten to senior matriculation or grade 13. In later years, most teenagers were bused to high school in Smooth Rock Falls for grade nine and half of them took room and board in Timmins and Kapuskasing for the higher grades. By the mid 1970's there were 85 families living at the Canyon. The recreation centre had always been the hub of the community. Major indoor facilities now included a three-sheet curling rink, hockey rink, swimming pool, four-lane bowling alley, billiard room, library, gymnatorium with a stage, dressing rooms, a 6 m (20 ft) screen, kitchen and sports equipment for team games like floor hockey, basketball, volleyball, lacrosse and badminton. Outdoor activities included trapshooting, basketball, croquet, horseshoe pitching, a supervised summer playground, a ski tow and cross country ski trail.

By 1982, about 300 residents lived at the colony. Although some of the employees and their families loved the tight-knit communal existence, others were less than enthusiastic. The yearly turn over of staff was about four times the average elsewhere in the Corporation. Families had to deal with the long harsh realities of sub zero temperatures of winter to the swarms of black flies of summer.

The townsite was costing Ontario Hydro $1,000,000 a year to operate and maintain. The Canyon fell victim to the economics of remote operation and to improved highways in this unpopulated and forested part of Ontario. A decision was announced April 28, 1980 to close down the Abitibi Canyon community. The community was phased out over a two year period.

HISTORICAL NOTE: A monument was erected at Moosonee in 1932 by the contractor who had completed the construction of the Abitibi Canyon power dam and the extension of the railway to tidewater at Moosonee. It was a tribute to the common labourers who had worked on these great and difficult projects. There is a four-sided cairn facing east, west, north and south. On each side is a bronze plaque and Rudyard Kipling's poem, "Sons of Martha", is embossed on these plaques, two verses on each. The contractor who erected this monument was Harry F. McLean, a man whose name was synonymous with the period of our history from 1914 to 1945.

Kipling and McLean met at a gathering, where Kipling recited his poem and McLean received the inspiration for the monuments which he also erected at the Pas, Flin and Churchill.