- CA QUA07531
- Family
- fl. 18--
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Authority record- CA QUA12225
- Person
- n.d.
H.D. Von Tiesdenhausen was a photographer based in British Columbia.
Volunteer Committee of the Kingston Symphony Association
- CA QUA01396
- Corporate body
- 1997-
Formed in 1954, as the Women's Auxiliary, and subsequently changed to the Women's Committee, the Volunteer Committee of the Kingston Symphony Association (the name was changed again in 1997, to more accurately reflect its nature and composition), the work of the volunteers is a major component of the health and success of the entire organization. The Kingston Symphony Association uses the time and talents of approximately 500 volunteers each season. Members usher at concerts, work at bingos, tend information tables at events, sit on committees, and mastermind a myriad of annual fundraising and community building events.
- CA QUA01444
- Person
- n.d.
From approximately 1864 to 1874, Herbert Charles Voight handled cases of Bankruptcy as the Official Assignee under the Insolvent Act of 1864 of the Province of Canada, and then under the federal Insolvent Act of 1869 . Voight was an accountant and was appointed according to the Act, by the Kingston Board of Trade.
- CA QUA12256
- Person
- 1935-2016
John Virtue, a journalist and author, was born in Nelson, BC in 1935. He was a correspondent for United Press International (UPI), getting his start reporting on Castro in Havana in 1964. He later managed UPI bureaus in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Mexico City, and covered wars in Central America and the Guatemala earthquake of 1976. In the 1980s, Virtue was executive editor for El Mundo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He worked 25 years as director of Florida International University's International Media Centre. Virtue passed away in Miami, Florida in 2016.