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The Hungarian Club of Kingston was established in 1957 to assist new Hungarian immigrants to Kingston, and formed in the wake of the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union in 1956. The Club served as a social outlet for Hungarian families, holding monthly dances and other events. The Club received its charter as an incorporated nonprofit organization in 1964. In 1971, the Club was a founding member of the Kingston and District Folk Arts Council, and took part ion the inaugural Folklore festival. At its peak, the Club counted 65 families as part of its membership, dwindling over time as immigration patterns changed and families moved away from Kingston. The Club disbanded in 2008.

Bob Black (Arts '59) is a graduate of Queen's University, and former volunteer at CFRC.

Started in 1977, with the help of Queen's University, the National Film Theatre (NFT) was formed. The purpose of the group was to increase the number of quality films available to students in Film Studies. The Theatre was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1980 and presented screenings in Ellis Hall on Queen's University campus for a number of years. In February of 1988, the group opened their own cinema space in the old Oddfellows Lodge at 394 Princess Street in collaboration with the Kingston Artists Association Inc. Relocating to the downtown core of Kingston was done with the hope of better fulfilling what the NFT saw as one of their key tenents, performing a community service to the general public and downtown residents, not just Queen's students and faculty.
The Princess Court Cinema, as the newly renovated space was named, run by the NFT, continued as a non-profit corporation until 1998, when, due to distribution issues, it closed its doors.

Julian Brown is an emeritus professor in Chemistry at Queen's University. Having grown up in Sydney, Australia, Brown met his wife, Kaaren, in Illinois. They married and moved to Kingston in 1962, moved to Australia for several years, and returned to Kingston in 1969. Julian and Kaaren Brown founded the Kingston Prize, Canada’s biennial portrait competition, in 2005.

Hugh Spring married and Ellen Scott in the late 1800s. He and his family moved from Inverary into Kingston sometime around 1902.

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Nan Yeomans was born June 6, 1923. She lived with her aunt and uncle on the Yeomans farm at Petworth until 1935. From 1935-1947 she lived at the Whitty farm at Pleasant Valley. She became a resident of Kingston in January 1948 and lived there for the rest of her life. She passed away August 21, 2004.

Nan attended Queen's University Summer School of Fine Arts in 1949, 1950 and 1951 working in oils, watercolours, drawings, linos, woodcuts and etchings under the direction of artists including André Bieler, Carl Schaefer, Grant Macdonald and Henri Marson. She was enolled in evening classes at Queen's from 1949.1958. Nan also took a 2 year correspondence Commercial Art course, graduating in 1955. Nan attended the Kingston Business College in 1954 specializing in Advancement Accounting. She worked in accounting and bookkeeping jobs (full time and part time) for 34 years from 1954-1988. After 12-15 years away from art she began printmaking again in 1973 when she started taking evening classes at St. Lawrence College. Since that time she concentrated mainly on printmaking, experimenting with a variety of printmaking techniques.

When she retired from accounting Nan finally became a full time "professional Fine Arts Printmaker" and continued actively printmaking until her death. All Nan's prints were artist produced originals. She never had reproductions made of her work.

Throughout Nan's life she maintained her interest in art, history and nature. She held memberships and executive positions in local groups including the Kingston Historical Society, Kingston Horticultural Society, Kingston Field Naturalists, Cataraqui Conservation Foundation, Kingston Lapidary and Mineral Club, Rideau Trail Club, Kingston Regional Arts Council, Agnes Etherington Gallery Association, Kingston School of Art and was an inaugural member of KAAI in 1977. Nan was Chairman of the Craft Committee for KOPEC (Kingston Olympic Public Events Committee) that organized the Hand to Hand National Craft Show and National Juried Exhibition of Crafts in 1976 in honour of Olympic Year.

Nan exhibited regularly locally, for man years. Some highlights include solo shows: A Personal Point of View at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in 1989, Tommie's 25th and 30th Birthday shows and a Retrospective at KAAI in 1994, 1995 and 1999, "50 Years 1949-1999 - A Retrospective" show in 2000 at Kingston Frontenac Public Library and The Union Gallery in 2003.

Nan was the subject of a documentary by Valerie Westgate entitled Under My Shell in 2004.

Dr. Alex Bryans, a professor in the Department of Medicine at Queen's University, was born in Toronto on 16 September 1921. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1944, as well as his F.R.C.P. (1952) and F.A.A.P. (1962). He also obtained his M.A. in Education from the Michigan State University in 1971.
During the Second World War, he enlisted as a Private in the RCAMC, and served as a Captain from February 1945 to September 1946.
He began his tenure with the Department of Paediatrics at Queen's University in 1951, becoming a full professor in 1959. He was Chair of the Department from 1958 to 1970, and was Health Sciences Officer of Education from 1971 to 1987 and Director of Continuing Medical Education from 1980 to 1987. He was an active member of the medical community, having served on numerous committees over his career, including a term as President of what would become Canadian Physicians for Global Survival. He was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.Div.) from Queen's University in 2001.
Dr. Bryans passed away in 2009.

The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association is a non-partisan, voluntary, non-profit research and educational organization committed to the articulation and promotion of the Ukrainian Canadian community's interests and to the defence of the civil liberties and human rights of Ukrainians in Canada and elsewhere.
UCCLA's roots trace back to 1984, when the Civil Liberties Commission (CLC) of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress(UCC) was constituted to deal with allegations about "Nazi war criminals" in Canada. UCC CLC worked to persuade the Government of Canada to accept the principle that "all war criminals found in Canada, regardless of their ethnic, religious or racial origin, political beliefs, .... should be brought to justice in Canada under Canadian criminal law."

UCCLA grew out of the UCC CLC, it became a seperate entity in order to have greater atonomy with regard to actively advocating for issues that were important to members of the Canadian Ukrainian community. One of the more contentious issues that UCCLA looked to resolve was to acquire a timely and honourable Ukrainian Canadian Redress Settlement Agreement for the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as "enemy aliens," during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920. UCCLA has been instrumental in increasing awareness of these internment operations as well as in promoting legislative initiatives, like Bill C 331 - The Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Act.

Members of the Association continue to express the Ukrainian Canadian community's views on issues such as "affirmative action," the future of multiculturalism, and media treatment of Ukrainian issues. UCCLA is also working to ensure that the proposed Canadian Museum of Human Rights is inclusive and fair in its treatment of all episodes of genocide in human history. UCCLA continues to work to ensure that Ukrainian Canadians and Ukraine are represented in a fair and objective manner by media and in the public domain.

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