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The Honourable Henry E. MacFutter, born in 1817, was the son of a wealthy Montreal distiller, who, in 1837, was banished by his father to Kingston to article in the law office of a young lawyer by the name of John A. Macdonald. However, he soon reverted to his former life as a rake -- drinking, gambling, and womanizing. His trail of misdeeds became tracherous after crossing paths with Edward Barker, Pirate Bill and his daughter Kate, and a murdeous officer in the Fort Henry Guard. He also fell out early on with his legal mentor.

After Macdonald became Prime Minister in 1867, he set about expunging his former student's name from the documentary record, both before and after Confederation. Hence the reason his name, his very existence, is missing from the hisorical record, or as one commentator has noted, "its almost as if Henry Eustace MacFutter is a man who never lived."

MacFutter received Honorary Degrees from McGill, Dalhousie, Oxford, and Queen's. During his day, he was one of the wealthiest, most influential and high-profile men in the British Empire. His accomplishments were legion. He was a celebrated explorer, a hurdy-gurdy virtuoso, a renowned phrenologist, statesman, and author. A close friend was President Theodore Roosevelt, with whom MacFutter hunted big game in Africa.

James Reid Furniture, now James Reid Limited, was founded in 1854,* by James Reid (1829-1900), an Irish immigrant of Scottish descent. While still an infant, Reid arrived in the Kingston area in 1831. He would first work on a farm on the Gore Rd. located north of Barriefield before taking up furniture making, possibly after apprenticing with cabinet maker Elijah Conklin (also spelled Conklan), whose daughter, Christianna, Reid would marry in 1856.
Reid established his business in a former tavern at 254-256 Princess St., with a furniture showroom on Princess St., and his workshops and storehouses filling in the back part of the lot towards Brock St. In addition to being an upholsterer and manufacturing and selling furniture, Reid was a casket-maker, undertaker and embalmer. The company would later also provide ambulance services. The business would expand to the neighbouring building, the Orpheum/Griffin Theatre at 250-252 Princess St in 1922 and, in 1973, James Reid opened a second funeral home, followed by a second furniture store in 1979, both on John Counter Boulevard (then known as Counter St.), in the village of Cataraqui, located then just outside the Kingston city limits, but now part of the amalgamated city. The Princess St. funeral home closed in 1990 and fine furniture showroom expanded into that space.
James and Christianna Reid had 12 children, six boys and six girls, all of whom worked for the family business. Following the death of James Reid in 1900, their eldest son Robert J. Reid would run James Reid Ltd. for a year before opening his own furniture shop and undertaking business at 222 Princess St. in 1901. The business was then run by three other of James Reid’s sons - Samuel (1868-1934), Francis C. (Frank) (1870-1955), and Frederick C. Reid (1880-1968). Frederick’s son James W. (1914-1997) would be brought into the business, followed by his children James [aka Jim] F. Reid, David W. Reid & Barbara J. Reid (d. 2004). Since 1997, Jim Reid serves as the company president and David W. Reid is the vice-president. Jim Reid’s daughter Sarah Hedberg works in the Funeral Home in Bereavement Support program.

Leslie Edmund Law was born at Northampton, England, on 5 February 1903. He was educated at Blexham School, and at University College, London. He received an M.A. in Literature from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1932; and an M.A. in Philosophy form University of London, in 1948. From 1927 until 1940, he was first a Lecturer and then an Associate Professor of Ancient History at Queen's University at Kingston. During this time he also served as Secreatry of the Arts Research Committee, President of the Queen's Players, Honorary President of the Student Christian Movement, member of the Kingston General Hospital's Committee of Manegement.
Upon his return to England in 1940, he took on the role of Acting Secretary of the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford (1940-1945), and in 1948, he became the Assistant Master, in charge of the Department of Latin, at the County Grammar School, Mitcham, Surrey.

Centerfold started in August 1976, published by The Parachute Center for Cultural Affairs in Calgary, Alberta. One year later in 1977, The Parachute Center became Arton's, marking an increase in video and film programing and distribution as well as continued promotion of performance and music programing, residencies and exhibitions taking place at the facility and in the surrounding area. The founding editors of the magazine were Clive Robertson and Marcella Bienvenue with the editorial board expanding to ten members in 1980 after the magazine moved to Toronto with Robertson and renamed FUSE in 1979.

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