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In 1817 Lieutenant Governor Frances Gore granted to the Reverend George O'Kill Stuart, Rector of Kingston, and his Churchwardens, Charles Short and Hugh Thompson, Block G in Kingston, a wedge-shaped piece of land bounded by present streets King, Clarence, Wellington and Brock. The grantees were to serve as trustees to use lands and rents for the erection of a new enlarged Anglican Church (St. George's) and support of its Rector. The enlarged St. George's, construction on which started in 1825, was not built on this land but on the site of the current Cathedral on lots that were granted to Stuart and his Churchwardens in 1825.

The grant of Block G allowed rental of the land by leases up to 21 years with the rents to be used first to retire the debt and secondly to support the "clergyman who shall be resident and doing duty in the church about to be erected"(Archives of Ontario, Crown Land Special Grants, Liber D, folio 127).

It was not until 1836 that Block G achieved a new status. Faced with declining government support for the colonial church, Lieutenant Governor Sir John Colborne decided to activate the unused provision of clause 38 of the Constitutional Act of 1792 that allowed the governor to constitute and endow with land rectories within every parish. In February 1836, 44 rectories were created, including one for Kingston. The Reverend George O'Kill Stuart received as endowment Block C, adjoining the town and containing 18 acres, parts of lots 12, 13 and 14 in the 4th concession, Kingston Township containing 500 acres and lot 42 in the 3rd concession, Ernestown containing 200 acres. In 1837 when Stuart was inducted as Rector his Churchwardens conveyed their interest in Block G to him.

Thus were assembled the Kingston Rectory lands which were to provide financial support for the Kingston parish. Management of the fund varied but generally the Rector (later Dean) of St. George's and a committee administered the Fund.

Robert McIntyre (fl.1850-1871) advertised as a dealer in goceries, wines, liquors, provisions and country produce. He carried out this business in Port Hope, Ontario in the 1850's and in Kingston, Ontario in the 1860's. He was married to Annie Smart. His death date in unknown.

Issac Simpson, private banker, died at Kingston 2 September, 1901.While in business Simpson's premises were at the office of the Frontenac Loan and Investment Society on Clarence street. He appears to have retired from active business in, or around, 1895. Simpson was the President of the Cataraqui Bridge Company from 1881-1900 amd a shareholder in the Kingston Hoisery Company. Simpson dealt in property largely in Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington counties, but he held property all across Ontario and in Western Canada. He also held mining leases and chattel mortgages. He was survived by his wife and daughter (Annie Maude Stokes).

Sir Charles James Stuart (Baronet) was born at Quebec, in 1824 or 1825 and died in February of 1901. He succeeded to his title upon the death of his father, Sir James Stuart, on July 14th, 1853. Stuart also became heir to the property of Sheriff Charles Stuart of Kingston.

Horace Yeomans lived in the Village of Waterloo, which was located just outside of Kingston, Ontario. He was the son of David Yeomans of Milford. Horace received his certificate to practice medicine on January 7, 1823. Later, on July 14, 1847 he was made Surgeon in the 2nd Battalion of the Frontenac Militia. Horace was also Treasurer of the Township of Kingston. Horace Yeomans owned six pieces of property within Kingston Township, one of which housed a saw mill.

Horace Yeomans was married to Laura Yeomans (b. 1789 - d. Augut 16, 1868). They had no children. Yeomans died in the summer of 1854 and is buried in Cataraqui Cemetery.

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts was born 10 January 1860 at Douglas, New Brunswick to Emma Wetmore Bliss and George Goodridge Roberts. The family later expanded to include 6 children: Jane Elizabeth Gostwycke (Nain), Goodridge Bliss, William Carman, George Edward Theodore Goodridge (Thede) and Fanny who died in infancy. Charles grew up in Sackville, where his father served as rector of St. Ann's Church. In 1873 the family relocated to Fredericton, when Canon Roberts became rector of Christ Church Parish Church (St. Anne's).
Charles G. D. Roberts spent his adolescence in Fredericton, where both he and his cousin, Bliss Carman, attended the Collegiate School and worked under the tutelage of headmaster and classical scholar George R. Parkin. Roberts continued his studies at the University of New Brunswick, graduating in June 1879 with honours in mental and moral science and political economy, a scholarship in Latin and Greek and a medal for Latin composition. While at UNB, Roberts wrote several poems including "Memnon", which was published in The Century in the summer of 1879.
Following graduation, Roberts moved to Chatham to become headmaster of the grammar school. His first volume of poetry, Orion and Other Poems, appeared in the fall of 1879. The next year he passed up an opportunity to attend Oxford University to marry Mary (May) Isabel Fenety, the daughter of Eliza Ann Arthur and George E. Fenety of Fredericton. They would have 4 children: Goodridge Edward Athelstan, William Harris Lloyd, Edith Arthur Bliss and Douglas (Dud) Hammond Brock. Despite increasing responsibilities, Roberts received an M.A. degree from UNB in 1881.
Roberts returned to Fredericton in 1882 to assume the principalship of the York Street School; however, he would not remain there permanently. The Roberts family soon moved to Toronto, where Charles G. D. worked briefly as editor of The Week. In 1885 he became professor of English, economics and French at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. His 10 years at Windsor were some of his most productive and included the publication of 2 volumes of poetry, In Divers Tones (1887) and Songs of the Common Day (1893); a book of prose, History of Canada (1897); 3 novelettes, The Raid from Beauséjour (1894), How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortage (1894) and Reube Dare's Shad Boat (1895); and a number of nature stories which appeared in Earth's Enigmas (1896). By 1895, when Roberts resigned his teaching post, he was being recognized as a promising Canadian writer. The Royal Society of Canada elected him a fellow in 1890.
Over the next 35 years, Roberts involved himself in a variety of activities and spent most of his time outside Canada. In 1897 he left his family in Fredericton and moved to New York City, never to co-habit with them again. Between 1907 and 1925, he travelled in Europe and made London his permanent home. During these years, he took up freelancing, worked as an editor of The Illustrated American in New York, served in the British and Canadian armies, gave lectures, published and toured Europe, Britain, and the United States.
Returning to Canada in 1925, Roberts took up residence in Toronto, where he continued his involvement in the Canadian literary scene. He lectured, published, promoted rising Canadian writers, and served as national president of the Canadian Authors' Association and as editor of Canadian Who Was Who. His literary talents were rewarded in 1926, when he was named the first recipient of the Lorne Pierce medal. He was knighted in 1935. Previously, he had been awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of New Brunswick (1906). Following the death of his wife, on 28 October 1943 he married Joan Montgomery. Charles G. D. Roberts died in Toronto on 26 November 1943.

Beatrice Helen Worsley was born on October 18, 1922 in Mexico. She attended the University of Toronto, from 1940-1944, where she earned a B.A. with first class honours in Mathematics and Physics. Between 1946 and 1947 she attained an S.M. in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, England from 1948-1950 and achieved a Phd.D. (Cambridge) in mathematics in 1952. During World War II Dr. Worsley served with the Canadian Navy where she was involved in designing torpedoes equipped with rudimentary computers. From 1951 to 1965 she was employed by the University of Toronto where she became an associate professor of computer science. Dr. Worsley came to Queen's in 1965 where she was a founding member of the Queen's Computing Centre and developed early courses offered by the centre. In 1969 the new Department of Computing and Information Science was established at Queen's. Dr. Worsley received a cross appointment to the new department and worked on course and curriculum proposals for both undergraduate and graduate programs. An active member of both the Canadian Information Processing Society and the Computer Science Association she helped co-ordinate the functional merger of the two. During her professional career Dr. B.H. Worsley produced some seventeen technical papers for a number of learned journals and at least as many other articles on topics relating to her work. On May 8 1972, Dr. Worsley died unexpectedly while on a sabbatical leave at the University of Waterloo.

George Browne (architect) was born in Belfast in 1811. In 1830 he emigrated to Quebec where he set up an architectural practice. In 1841 he came to Kingston where he succeeded in winning the contest for the design of Kingston's City Hall. Among the other Kingston buildings designed by Browne are Rockwood Villa and the Presbyterian Manse.

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A.A. Chesterfield was born in Kent, England in 1877. He was orphaned at 12 and then sent by his grandmother to live with his Aunt and Uncle in Quebec, he left behind a brother and a sister. After his completion of high school he left his Aunt and Uncle in 1895 to work as an apprentice clerk and fur trader with the Hudson's Bay Company. Over the next few years he worked at posts in both Rigolet on the Labrador coast, in Great Whale River, and at Fort George. There he took great interest in studying the Inuit and Cree peoples of the land, documenting their ways of life, he also wrote several articles on his observations. It is unclear where he first received training as a photographer. Later in 1895 he met a missionary doctor named Wilfred Grenfell, with whom he became very close friends and would often leave the post travelling out of the Post on the local ships for days at a time.

In 1905 Chesterfield moved back to Montreal where he soon found himself the co-owner of a press photography company with E. Bruce McLaren on Bluery Street. He developed an interest in documenting what he saw as typical Canadian behavior, which meant everything from fishing to maple sap tapping to winter scenes. Unfortunately a fire broke out in their studio, and most of Chesterfield's equipment and negatives were destroyed. Chesterfield then gave up photography and tried his hand at journalism. He published several articles before he retired.

In the 1930s he married Mary Emma McCracken and also ran for Public Office. Later in his life they moved from Montreal to eastern Ontario where he is said to have lived a quiet life. Chesterfield has been cited as a unique character, who very rarely volunteered information about his earlier life. As he grew older his eye sight began to fade, and he burned his canoe from his days among the Cree, stating that no one would be able to handle it but he. After his death in 1959, Mrs. Chesterfield donated what was left of her husband's work to Queen's University. Sadly she passed away in the early 1980s.