James Milton Courtright, former Vice-Principal (Development and Information) at Queen's University, was born in North Bay, Ontario and raised in Ottawa. He was a graduate of the University of Ottawa and Queen's University. Courtright was an Engineer with Shell Canada, and was a member of the Canadian Olympic Team Berlin 1936, and a Gold Medal javelin thrower in the British Empire Games, Sydney in 1938.
Ford Stuart Strathy was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in Septempber, 1897. He attended Upper Canada College, Trinity College (Port Hope), and the University of Toronto. Ford joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916, and trained in Ontario, England and France. He was killed in action near Nieuport, Belgium, on 17 August 1917.
Born in Bloomfield, Ontario in 1901, Morley C. Tillotson graduated with a B.Com. from Queen's University at Kingston in 1926; and an M.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1929. He was appointed Executive Assistant to the Comptroller and Secretary of the Department of Munitions and Supply in early 1940.
Created by special Act of the Canadian Parliament in September 1939, and brought into force at midnight 8/9 April 1940, the Department of Munitions and Supply carried on and extended the work of its predecessors, the Defence Purchasing Board and the War Supply Board.
During its day - it was folded into the Department of Reconstruction and Supply in late 1945 - this body was responsible for the production of country's mobile fighting force, as well as for the purchase of all supplies for its Armed Services.
For services rendered, Morley C. Tillotson received an M.B.E. in 1947. The following year he returned to Queen's University as Assistant Treasurer. In 1950 he became Treasurer and in 1959 he was appointed Secretary to the University, a post he held until his death in March 1966.
George Vosper, a mechanical engineer, university instructor, inventor and Kingston alderman, was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1923. He was the son of Lewis Vosper, a dentist, and Gretta (Haycock) Vosper. He joined the navy in 1944, and served aboard the HMS Glory until he was discharged in 1945. After the war, George started to study architecture at Dawson College (McGill University), then enrolled in mechanical engineering at Queen's University. He graduated with a BSc in 1953. His first job was with John Inglis, where he tested pumps and turbines for destroyer escorts. He then worked on the Iroquois engine for the Avro Arrow at Orenda Engines in Malton. George taught kinematics and the dynamics of machinery in mechanical engineering and headed the engineering drawing department at Royal Military College from 1955 to 1959. He also worked as an instructor of engineering drawing at Queen's University.
Vosper served as an alderman on Kingston City Council for Sydenham Ward from 1957 to 1963, and 1969 to 1973. During this time, he served on city and regional planning committees. He was instrumental in purchasing the airport for the city, preserving local heritage buildings andthe creation of Confederation Park. He also served on Kingston's Confederation Committee, the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce, the Eastern Ontario Development Corporation, the Cataraqui Conservation Authority, the Rotary Club and the Builders' Exchange.
George Vosper married Velma Johnston in May 1956. He has invested in real estate throughout the city, and was half-owner of Vandervoort's Hardware from 1983 to 1997.
Joseph E. Goold was a steamboat captain and a World War I aviator.
Created in 1971, the Rideau Trail Association (RTA) is a non-profit organization which maintains a 300 kilometer trail and promotes hiking. The RTA consists of three local clubs -- Kingston, Ottawa, and Central (Perth). These clubs sponsor day hikes and other outdoor activities. The Association publishes a quarterly newsletter which keeps members informed of activities and contains articles of common interest.
Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards (July 4,1906-January 5,1997) C.B.E., F.R.S., Regis Professor of Natural History, University of Aberdeen, 1946-1974 was a British ethnologist who's writings on group selection became the focus of often acrimonious debate among theorists in the 1960's and 1970's. He was born in England. In 1924, he went up to New College, Oxford where, in 1927, he took a first in Zoology studying under such men as Julian Huxley, E.S. Goodrich, E.B. Ford, John R. Baker and Charles Elton who became his tutor after Huxley left Oxford. In 1929 he received an invitation to go to McGill University in Montreal and so Wynne-Edwards emigrated to Canada. During his years at McGill, the flora of Canada and the arctic became a part of his interest. This interest led to election to the Royal Society of Canada, (1940). He transferred his interest in fishes to the freshwater fauna of the St. Lawrence and its tributaries. This resulted in a faunal survey for the Quebec Provincial Government, from the South West corner of the Province to the Gaspé peninsula which was still in progress when he left Canada. In 1937 he was the Canadian `official' on board the Gloucester schooner "Gertrude Thebauld" the "Bluenose's" great American racing rival when Commander Donald B. MacMillan took her on his cruise to Labrador and Southern Baffin Island that year. Among other things, he managed to make the most detailed sketch map of the mountainous south coast of Frobisher Bay that had been made to that time. When, in 1945, the first area survey maps of the region appeared a small bay was named after Wynne-Edwards. In 1946 Wynne-Edwards accepted the chair of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen and the family emigrated to Scotland. Wynne-Edwards held the Regius Chair of Natural History at Aberdeen University from 1946 until his retirement in 1974. In 1956 he initiated an important research project on the population ecology and behaviour of red grouse which was still active at his death. He established the Culterty Field Station as a centre for post-graduate training and research in ecology and was instrumental in re-housing his department in a new building in 1970. He also served as Vice-Principal of Aberdeen University between 1970 and 1974.
The book for which Wynne-Edwards will be most remembered is Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour, (1962). It is the scholarly result of a lifelong consideration of the process of limiting animal numbers and became, probably the most controversial book of its kind in the nineteen sixties and seventies.
MacLennan Associates Architects
MacLennan Associates Architects is an architectural firm in the sole proprietorship of Neil Kirk MacLennan, MRAIC, OAA. Mr. MacLennan began his architectural vocation in 1954 and has since then involved himself in all the major aspects of professional and service practice in the business. His education in the professions of architecture and archaeology took place in several countries and he served internships under Louis I. Kahn in the U.S. and Heikki Siren in Helsinki. From 1959-1971, institutional building design was the mainstay of the partnerships that Mr. MacLennan was involved with. This work resulted in major hospitals in Toronto, Barrie, Kitchener, Brockville and Kingston. Since 1974 MacLennan and associates has competed for a wide variety of building types and complexity, with a specialization in the restoration of older and period buildings. The firm was established in 1972 to be a team of five highly-qualified persons. Workload has caused staff increases to as many as twelve but the firm has attempted to maintain the smaller number over the long term. From 1977 the firm served as a training office for the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. The firm closed in 1996 upon the retirement of Mr. MacLennan.