The Kinsmen Club of Kingston was formed in 1932 by the Peterborough Kinsmen Club. The Charter was formally presented in June 1932 in Battersea. The Club raises funds for the community through the Dream Home lottery and presentation of an annual Kinsmen Show.
Dr. George Alexander McCallum was appointed superintendent following the unexpected death of Dr. R. Maurice Bucke. He assumed additional responsibility during his tenure by lecturing on mental diseases at Western University. Previously, he taught school at Ringwood, Ontario before entering the Medical Department of the University of Victoria College, Toronto. In 1866, he received his M.D. degree and eventually established a country practice in Dunnville, Ontario.
In his 1902 annual report to the inspector, he argued for proper care and isolated housing for patients suffering from tuberculosis, protesting that patients confined to asylums were susceptible to infection. He also argued for a nurses training school, with specific instruction in the management of the mentally ill at the asylum to secure the most "intelligent care and treatment for our inmates." Dr. McCallum saw additional benefit in staff morale. He felt they would have greater interest in their work and should have specific training in mental health. Dr. McCallum left London when he was appointed superintendent of the Asylum at Penetanguishene in 1908.
Dr. McCallum was also a naturalist and sportsman interested in the preservation and protection of fish and game. He maintained a life-long interest in ornithology and membership in the Ornithological Section of the Entomological Society of Ontario. Also interested in indigenous archaeology his collections of relics from the Dunnville area are at Queen's University. In later years, he lived with his son in New York, New York where he was elected Fellow of the New York Zoological Society and became Pathologist of the New York Aquarium.
Judith McGilligan is an actress, known for her work in As the World Turns (1956), The Edge of Night (1956) and Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966).
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Ernest Webber was a patternmaker with Dominion Engineering Company in Lachine, Quebec. He married Christine Stock.
Queen's University. Office of the Rector
The position of Rector, unique among Canadian universities, was established in 1912 and modelled after similar positions at Scottish universities. The primary function of the Rector is to represent students on the Board of Trustees. Some Rectors, however, have also used the office in a more informal way to help students with administrative problems by providing information and advice.
The Rector also has certain ceremonial responsibilities, the most important of which is to join the Chancellor and the Principal on the dais at convocations. The Rector is frequently called upon to represent students on university committees, such as those which select the Principal and honorary degree recipients.
The Rector was previously elected by students to a three-year term (now a two-year term), but until 1969 no students were chosen; instead, the Rector tended to be some prominent friend of Queen's, such as the senior public servant O.D. Skelton (1929-1935), former Prime Minister R.B. Bennett (1935-1937), and the businessman and chair of the CBC Leonard Brockington (1947-1968). In 1969, students forced the resignation of the Rector, Senator Grattan O'Leary since that time, students have been elected to the post ever since.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
In 1965 a special act of the Ontario legislature established the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), an institute of education for the province of Ontario. OISE issued degrees through the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto but it had its own board of governors, received funding directly from the provincial government, and had its own admission procedures, program regulations, financial awards and degree requirements.