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The 146th Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Kingston, Ontario, the unit began recruiting in late 1915, in that city and the surrounding district. After sailing to England in September 1916, the Battalion was absorbed into the 95th Battalion, CEF and the 12th Reserve Battalion on October 6, 1916. The 146th Battalion, CEF had one Officer Commanding: Lieut-Col. C. A. Low. The last Canadian World War I veteran, John Babcock, joined the 146th Battalion, before being transferred to the Young Soldiers Battalion as he was underage.

The identity of the author of this bibliography is at present uncertain but internal evidence strongly suggests that it was a member of staff of DSP or of Publishing ca 1967 - 1970. A likely candidate is Louise Meynard (spelling uncertain) who retired in the early '70s and was deceased not very long afterwards.

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Kingston Collegiate Vocational Institute was founded by the Reverend John Stuart in 1792, based upon a grant given for secondary education in the colony of Upper Canada, on the orders of Governor Simcoe. The original building was a one and a half storey frame structure which was used until 1849.

While a new structure was being built, the school was housed in the present Principal's residence of Queen's University. The second building, a two storey stone structure, was completed in 1853. In 1892, the school was moved, as a result of increased enrolment, to its present location at the corner of Frontenac and Earl Streets.

Girls were first admitted as students in January 1877 and the school has remained co-educational since. The oldest remaining part of the present school is the 1915 wing, which is now the Science area, while the latest addition was completed in 1969. The Module Secondaire de Langue Française was established at K.C.V.I. in 1980, and in September 1995 became l'École Secondaire Mille-Iles, Frontenac County's (now the Limestone District School Board) first French language secondary school.

Mille-Iles is now a school in the local separate French first language board. However, KCVI still houses Module Vanier, a grades 7 and 8 French Immersion school. Among those who have attended K.C.V.I., are Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada; Sir Oliver Mowat, Premier of Ontario; and George Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, who laid the 1892 commemorative stone. On November 12, 1992, a new commemorative stone was dedicated by His Excellency The Right Honourable Ramon A. Hnatyshyn, Governor General of Canada, on the occasion of the Bicentennial of Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute.

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W.P. Dobson was Chief Testing Engineer, and later Director of the Research Division at Ontario Hydro.

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The Ku Klux Klan is an organization that expanded operations into Canada, based on the second Ku Klux Klan established in the United States in 1915. It operated as a fraternity, with chapters established in parts of Canada throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. The first registered provincial chapter was registered in Toronto in 1925 by two Americans and a Torontonian.

On 1 December 1924, C. Lewis Fowler of New York City, John H. Hawkins of Newport, Virginia, and Richard L. Cowan of Toronto signed an agreement to establish the Knights of Ku Klux Klan of Canada (Kanada). Funding responsibilities for the provincial organization were split equally among them, and each was a founding Imperial Officer of the Provincial Kloncillum, the governing body of the organization. Fowler travelled to Canada on 1 January 1925 to officially establish the organization. Cowan was the Imperial Wizard (president), Hawkins the Imperial Klaliff (vice-president) and Chief of Staff, and Fowler the Imperial Kligrapp (secretary). They also split the organization's income equally. Fowler left Canada in 1926.

During the mid 1920s, Ku Klux Klan branches were established throughout Canada. These groups observed the same racial ideology but had a narrower focus than those in the United States, primarily to preserve the "Britishness" of Canada with respect to ethnicity and religious affiliation.

The Chancellor Dunning Trust was established in 1946 by an anonymous donor who gave $100,000 to Queen's University to establish a permanent tribute to Chancellor Charles A. Dunning. The income from the Trust is to be used "to promote understanding and appreciation of the supreme importance of the dignity, freedom and responsibility of the individual person in human society."
The Trustees of Queen's University agreed that this goal may best be accomplished by bringing to Queen's distinguished speakers who would give public lectures and who would also meet with classes, groups and individuals at Queen's and in the local community.