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Archibald Knight was born near Renfrew in 1849. In 1868 he entered Queen's University on scholarship and graduated in Arts in 1872 with the Prince of Wales prize. After three years teaching, in 1875, Professor Knight received his M.A. from Queen's. From 1876 to 1892 Professor Knight served as principal of Kingston Collegiate during which time he also studied medicine at Queen's taking his final examinations for the M.D. at the University of Toronto. He was appointed professor of animal biology and physiology at Queen's in 1892, holding the chair until his retirement in 1919. Knight also served Queen's as registrar of the Women's Medical College (1884-1889), in the planning of the Medical Laboratories Building (1907) and as a member of the board of trustees (1922-1926). Knight was a leader in the organization in 1898 of the Biological Board of Canada, served the board actively until 1925 and was its chairman from 1920 to 1925. Knight was Professor Emeritus of Biology when he died in 1935.

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F.C. Knight was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

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The Order of the Knights of Columbus is currently the largest Catholic fraternal service organization in the world. It is named in honour of Christopher Colubus and dedicated to the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriotism. It was first founded by Father Michael J. McGivney, a Catholic priest in New Haven, Connecticut. McGivney created the Order to promote mutual benefits and to provide insurance to care for the widows and orphans left behind when the male head of the household passed on.

Knights of Labor, the major labour reform organization of the late 19th century, organized December 1869 by Philadelphia garment cutters. Growing slowly in the 1870s, the secret organization emphasized co-operation and education. The Knights believed in organizing all workers, without regard to skill, sex or race. Their major organizational breakthrough was the mixed assembly of various types of workers, which allowed the order to expand into small towns and villages. Entering Ontario, perhaps in 1875, and certainly in 1881 in Hamilton, the order organized some 450 local assemblies across Canada. Strongest in Ontario, Québec and BC, the Knights also enjoyed success in Nova Scotia and Manitoba and established locals in New Brunswick and present-day Alberta.

In Ontario and Québec, leading Knights played key roles in organizing the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, and were prominent in independent labour political campaigns in the 1880s and 1890s and in considerable parliamentary lobbying. The Knights peaked in Ontario and the West in 1886, but were most successful in Ottawa and Québec in the 1890s. Their expulsion for dual unionism from the TLC in 1902 at Berlin [Kitchener] abetted the development of distinctive Québec unions.

Key Knights' strongholds were Toronto, Hamilton, Montréal, Québec, Ottawa, St Catharines, St Thomas, London, Kingston, Winnipeg and Victoria. Canadian Knights such as A.W. Wright, Thomas Phillips Thompson and D.J. O'Donoghue made important contributions in the US as well. The Knights' major contributions to the Canadian working class lay in the notion of the organization of all workers and in their efforts to formulate social alternatives to the growth of monopolistic capitalist society.

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John Raymond Knister was a Canadian poet, novelist, story writer, columnist, and reviewer. Born at Ruscom (now part of Lakeshore), Ontario, near Windsor, Knister attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto, but had to drop out after catching pneumonia. At the age of eighteen he began to take a serious interest in literature, writing his first poems and short stories. While in Toronto he contributed articles on Miguel de Cervantes and Robert Louis Stevenson to Acta Victoriana, the college literary magazine.

In 1919 Knister began writing and publishing stories and poems about Canadian farm life. He worked in 1922 and 1923 as a book reviewer for the Windsor Border Cities Star and the Detroit Free Press. He moved to Iowa in 1923 to become associate editor of literary magazine The Midland in Iowa City for a year. During the same time he took courses in creative writing at Iowa State University. By 1924 Knister was a taxi driver in Chicago, as well as a reviewer for Poetry magazine and the Chicago Evening Post. In Toronto he became acquainted with writers Morley Callaghan, Mazo de la Roche, Merrill Denison, and Charles G.D. Roberts.

Knister married Myrtle Gamble in 1927. They had one daughter, Imogen, born in 1930. In 1931, Knister moved to Montreal, Quebec. In 1932, Ryerson Press, which had picked up the rights to My Star Predominant, offered Knister a job as an editor. Before he was to begin working there, Knister drowned in a swimming accident on Lake St. Clair while on a picnic with his family.

Harvey Knox and Madeline Lowing were married April 8. 1944. They had a farm in Glenburnie where they held a dairy interest for some time but also grew award winning barley. Madeline Ellen Knox passed away, on Monday, October 25, 2010 in Kingston. Harvey Francis Knox passed away July 9, 1985.