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1000 Islands Publishers Ltd.

  • CA QUA09809
  • Corporate body
  • fl. 1970s

1000 Islands Publishers Limited is a publisher based at 79 King Street East, Gananoque, Ontario.

146th Battalion, CEF

  • CA QUA02798
  • Corporate body
  • 1915-

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.

1913 Italian Railway Workers Accident Committee

  • CA QUA02544
  • Corporate body
  • 1989-1990

The 1913 Italian Railway Workers Accident Committee was organized by Philip Quattrocchi in July of 1989 to begin researching the events of the 1913 accident, to seek contributions of professional talent and donations from the community and to obtain funding for the construction of monument. The membership of the committee was comprised of the following individuals: Mr. P. Quattrocchi, Mrs. F. Metz, Dr. G. Lepore, Dr. D. Bastianutti, Mr. B. Conti, Mr. S. Carfa, Mr. P. Campbell, Mr. Garofalo, and Mrs. Lily Inglis.

5th Field Company Engineers

  • CA QUA02310
  • Corporate body
  • n.d.

The Fifth Field Company Canadian Engineers was a Queen's University company that spent the years preceeding the war becoming a well-qualified military unit. By 1914, total enrolment in the Fifth was 160 men. The activities of the Company included not only rifle and infantry drill, but also signals training and bridge and fortification construction. With the start of World War One the training of the Fifth during the previous four years permitted a quick response to the national emergency. The first need created by the war, a camp for Canadian soldiers who were to be sent overseas, demanded a very real response from Queen’s.
The Fifth Field Company was given the task of turning previously unimproved ground at Valcartier, Quebec, into a camp capable of mobilizing 30,000 men. Only ten days after the initial inquiry, mobilization orders were telegraphed to all members of the Company and the majority of the men left Kingston for Valcartier on August 18, 1914. In all 170 Queen’s men worked at Valcartier on a variety of jobs that included road repair, surveys for tent sites, and installation of a water supply system.

A. Brown and Company

  • CA QUA00570
  • Corporate body
  • n.d.

A. Brown and Company was a millinery company in Watford, Ontario.

A. Davis & Son Ltd.

  • CA QUA02771
  • Corporate body
  • 1872-1973

A. Davis and Son was established by Andrew Davis in 1872. The third generation of the Davis family to be involved in the tanning industry, the company was not officially incorporated under this name until 1903. E. J. Davis took over the company from Andrew Davis in 1884. In April of that year the building burned down and was rebuilt at Kinghorn, north of Toronto. In 1903 the tannery burned again and it was at this point that the company relocated to Kingston, Ontario purchasing the Cannington plant already in operation.The tannery itself had been very successful in its day but was closed in November 1973 when C.S. Riley, president of Dominion Tanners of Winnipeg, and Mr. Davis, president of A. Davis and Son Ltd., announced the merger of the Kingston firm with the much larger Winnipeg one.

A. Kennedy and Sons

  • CA QUA12013
  • Corporate body
  • n.d.

A. Kennedy and Sons was a printer based in St. Andrews, NB.

ABC News Pictures

  • CA QUA02705
  • Corporate body
  • fl. 1946

No information available on this creator.

Abitibi Canyon

  • CA QUA02346
  • Corporate body
  • n.d.

This development was designed by the George F. Hardy Company of New York for the Ontario Power Service Corporation, a subsidiary of the Abitibi Power and Paper Company. The actual construction started in 1930, was done by the Dominion Construction Company. In July of 1932 work was discontinued and in November 1932, the Ontario Power Service Corporation was placed in receivership until the development was taken over by the Province of Ontario early in 1933.

The Colony - The Abitibi Canyon colony was established in 1930 to house staff and their families working at the Abitibi Canyon generating station. After construction of the station was completed, staff living in the colony operated and maintained the plant. At one point, passengers going to the Canyon colony travelled by rail to the Fraserdale station where they boarded the Hydro train and proceeded for the a distance of 5.6 km (3.5 miles) to the colony's siding or splashed down into a station head pond by small float plane. By 1966, a 74 km (165 mile) road to Smooth Rock Falls was built ending the sense of isolation.

During the mid 1940's there were about 130 people in the Hydro community which contained 30 permanent homes, four temporary houses and five privately owned houses. There was also a well equipped staff house, community hall, an enclosed skating rink, a shooting range, school, hospital, general store, post office and church.

At the time, the high school had a special dispensation from the Ontario Department of Education making it possible to take pupils from Kindergarten to senior matriculation or grade 13. In later years, most teenagers were bused to high school in Smooth Rock Falls for grade nine and half of them took room and board in Timmins and Kapuskasing for the higher grades. By the mid 1970's there were 85 families living at the Canyon. The recreation centre had always been the hub of the community. Major indoor facilities now included a three-sheet curling rink, hockey rink, swimming pool, four-lane bowling alley, billiard room, library, gymnatorium with a stage, dressing rooms, a 6 m (20 ft) screen, kitchen and sports equipment for team games like floor hockey, basketball, volleyball, lacrosse and badminton. Outdoor activities included trapshooting, basketball, croquet, horseshoe pitching, a supervised summer playground, a ski tow and cross country ski trail.

By 1982, about 300 residents lived at the colony. Although some of the employees and their families loved the tight-knit communal existence, others were less than enthusiastic. The yearly turn over of staff was about four times the average elsewhere in the Corporation. Families had to deal with the long harsh realities of sub zero temperatures of winter to the swarms of black flies of summer.

The townsite was costing Ontario Hydro $1,000,000 a year to operate and maintain. The Canyon fell victim to the economics of remote operation and to improved highways in this unpopulated and forested part of Ontario. A decision was announced April 28, 1980 to close down the Abitibi Canyon community. The community was phased out over a two year period.

HISTORICAL NOTE: A monument was erected at Moosonee in 1932 by the contractor who had completed the construction of the Abitibi Canyon power dam and the extension of the railway to tidewater at Moosonee. It was a tribute to the common labourers who had worked on these great and difficult projects. There is a four-sided cairn facing east, west, north and south. On each side is a bronze plaque and Rudyard Kipling's poem, "Sons of Martha", is embossed on these plaques, two verses on each. The contractor who erected this monument was Harry F. McLean, a man whose name was synonymous with the period of our history from 1914 to 1945.

Kipling and McLean met at a gathering, where Kipling recited his poem and McLean received the inspiration for the monuments which he also erected at the Pas, Flin and Churchill.

Aboriginal Council of Queen's University

  • CA QUA02220
  • Corporate body
  • 1992-

The Aboriginal Council of Queen's University was established in 1992, in conjunction with the five year Aboriginal Education and Training Strategy introduced by the Ministry of Education and Training. The purpose of the Council as stated in its terms of reference, are "to ensure that for generations hereafter Aboriginal peoples will have access to higher education at Queen's University, and that the institution will be responsive to the broader needs of Aboriginal peoples. According to its mandate, the Council shall be involved in all decisions affecting Aboriginal programs and services at Queen's University. The Council is composed of representatives from Aboriginal communities in Ontario, Queen's Aboriginal student representatives, and senior University personnel. Other members of the University serve on the Council as needed. The Council reports directly to the Senate and the Board of Trustees. The Council has also established the Four Directions Student Centre.

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