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The Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) was a joint federal, provincial, and municipal government funded organization which focused on emergency response during both a wartime or peacetime era. The organization was Canada wide and approved in Parliament in 1960. However, discussion of such planning and the need for the organization began in the later 1950s. This fonds specifically reflects the Kingston/ County of Frontenac area and the EMO’s actions and implementation in the region. This specific branch became active in 1960 and was defunded in 1975. The EMO was replaced in Ontario with new emergency planning and programs post 1980.

Physician and professor, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Alexander Grant Dexter was born in St. Andrews, Manitoba on February 3, 1896. Educated at the Collegiate Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, and at Brandon College, Manitoba, he joined the staff of the "Winnipeg Free Press" in 1912, and after serving in WWI from 1915-1919, he became the Ottawa Correspondent for the "Free Press" in 1923. He was the "Free Press' correspondent in London, England, for 2 years, returning to Ottawa in 1938. For some years he was Canadian correspondent for the "Manchester Guardian" and other British and American publications. He became Associate Editor of the "Free Press" in 1944, and was Executive Editor from 1946 to 1948, becoming Editor in 1948. Awarded the Cabot Medal for journalism by Columbia University in 1946, he was author of "Canada and the Building of the Post-War World," 1946, and also numerous pamphlets. He collaborated in various studies dealing with Canadian problems. He died on December 12, 1961, in Winnipeg.

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Staff Paymaster of the Admiralty, Portsmouth, England, acting as Secretary to Vice Admiral H. Fairfax, C.B., Earl of Clanwilliam.

Student, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

In 1953, Valerie and Gordon Robertson founded a group interested in drama and bringing live theatre to Kingston. At first the group was known as the Domino Players, then as the Domino Theatre of Kingston, and finally as Domino Theatre Incorporated. The first play produced by the group was In Camera, presented at a local movie theatre between films. In 1963 they obtained a warehouse and converted it into a theatre before formally opening in 1965. By that date the group had produced fifty-three offerings including seven Shakespearean plays and six childrens' presentations. In June of 1964 they had their first adult summer theatre school. They have won many awards in both the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival, and the Dominion Drama Festival. In addition, a number of their members have become professional actors and actresses or established other companies elsewhere.

William Heriot Watson (1899-1987), physicist, was born in Scotland and educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge. In 1931, he came to Canada as Assistant Professor of Physics at McGill University 1931-1944, then Professor of Mathematics and Department Head, University of Saskatchewan 1944-1946. From 1946 to 1951 he was Research Physicist and Head of Theoretical Physics, National Research Council Atomic Energy Division. At the University of Toronto he was head of the Physics Department 1950-1961 and Director Computation Centre 1952-1962. Dr. Watson then served as Senior Consulting Scientist at Lockheed Missles, Palo Alto, California 1962-1969. He retired to British Columbia. In his early years at Cambridge Dr Watson became friendly with Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), a friendship and correspondence that endured for many years. Dr. Watson had many publications on physics, radar, and computers and two major works, On Understanding Physics (1938) and Understanding Physics Today (1963).

Kingston restaurant owner and Peter Lee and family active in Chinese Canadian community. Lee family was 1st Chinese family in Kingston to have child born in Canada.

Samuel Walters Dyde was born in Ottawa, 1862, and was educated at Ottawa Collegiate Institute and Queen's University, where he received a B.A. and gold medal in classics (1883), an M.A. and gold medal in philosophy (1884), and D.Sc. (1887). He was a professor of mental and moral philosophy at the University of New Brunswick, 1886-1889 and a professor of mental philosophy and lecturer in German classical literature at Queen's University, 1889-1912. He was Principal of Queen's Theological College from 1918 to 1926. He resigned the Principalship in 1926 and retired in 1934. His publications include a translation of Hegal's Philosophy of Right (1896) and a translation, with an introduction, of The Theaetetus of Plato (1899). He died in 1947.