Arthur Zimmerman served as Program Director and as a broadcaster at CFRC Radio at Queen's University. He is the author of "In the Shadow of the Shield: The Development of Wireless Telegraphy and Radio Broadcasting in Kingston and at Queen's University, 1902-1957."
Physician and Professor, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.
Edith Chown Pierce (born Edith Georgina Chown) was born on 13 September 1890 in Kingston, Ontario. She was the daughter of Charles Douglas Chown and Elizabeth Pierce "Lilley" Conley. She married Dr. Lorne Albert Pierce on 13 September 1916 in Ottawa, Ontario. The Pierce's had two children, Elizabeth (who married Jack Robinson) and Lorne Bruce. Edith worked with her husband to amass and make the Edith and Lorne Pierce Collection of Canadiana at Queen's University one of the outstanding collections of Canadiana in the country. Edith, along with Gerald Stevens, were among the first to appreciate, seek out and preserve early Canadian glass. She died on 22 April 1954 in Kingston.
In 1954 Lorne Pierce endowed the Edith Chown Pierce Trust to augment the Edith and Lorne Pierce Collection in perpetuity. In 1957, Lorne Pierce and Gerald Stevens presented the Edith Chown Pierce and Gerald Stevens collection of Early Canadian Glass to the Royal Ontario Museum in her memory and according to her wishes.
William Extence resided in Kingston, Ontario.
Queen's University. Office of the Hannah Chair History of Medicine
The Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen's University has been funded since 1975 by resources provided by Associated Medical Services Incorporated/Hannah Institute (AMS). It is named in honour of the latter's founder Jason A. Hannah, M.D. (Queen's, 1928). In 2000, it was fully endowed through a generous donation from AMS.
The Chair is located in the Faculty of Health Sciences, but it is linked through the professor's cross-appointments and teaching to the Faculties of Arts and Science, Graduate Studies, Education, and Law.
Programs offered by the Chair include a historical course of study for medical students, elective courses, a faculty seminar, undergraduate arts courses, graduate courses, graduate counselling, references or bibliographic assistance to individuals, guest lectures by visiting scholars (the Annual Hannah Happenings), displays of books and artefacts, and the acquisition of historical works suited to the research interests of members of the Queen's community. The Chair supports local initiatives such as the Museum of Health Care, and the Kingston Historical Society.
Dr. H. Wes Curran was founder of the Queen's University Biological Station at Opinicon. He was also Director of University Extension, and of the Summer School from 1952 to 1970.
George Edwin Osborne Lilley was a photographer born in Kingston in 1918. George served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Just prior to the end of the war and after the war, he was employed at the National Film Board of Canada where he produced films for foreign distribution, working under John Grierson.
After joining the militia he was, at the same time, actively involved in the public relations role of the Canadian Armed Forces. He served as Public Information Officer from 1955-1974. He retired from the Armed Forces in 1974. Mr. Lilley joined Transport Canada as Public Affairs Officer. He was stationed with the Canadian Coast Guard in Toronto.
Mr. Lilley had been interested in photography from an early age. For many years he was a freelance photographer in Kingston. His photographic work involved news photography, documentaries, advertising and promotional work. As far as the news side of photographic gathering is concerned, Mr. Lilley was under contract to provide news photographs for the Kingston Whig-Standard, the Toronto Telegram, the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Journal, the Montreal Star, Montreal Gazette, the Associated Press, the United Press, Time-Life Fortune, and some European newspapers. He passed away on 22 November 2003.
George Innes was born in England but came to Canada at an early age and has lived in the Kingston area for most of his life. For many years he worked as a photographer at Queen's University where he processed much of the photographic work for the Archives. He has also been a collector of militariana and other historical material. Because his work at Queen's brought him into close contact with the Archives he has gained a good understanding of the kind of material archives staff are looking for and he has donated some of the material from his own collection, which he knew would be useful, to Queen's Archives.
Julia Cataudella was a Medical Student at Queen's University in 1999.