Mostrando 34 resultados

RCAF Station Kingston was a World War II air training station built in 1940 at Collins Bay near Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The station was originally built by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) for use by the Royal Air Force (RAF). Like other RAF schools in Canada, it was subject to RCAF administrative and operational control. No. 31 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) was the first British Service Flying Training school to be established in Canada and the first flying training school at Kingston.In 1942, the school formally became part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In 1944 No. 31 SFTS was merged with the RCAF's No. 14 SFTS when this school was transferred to Kingston from RCAF Station Aylmer. No. 14 SFTS closed down in September 1945.

Dr. Clifford G. Hospital is a Professor Emeritus of the Comparative Study of Religion at Queen's University. Dr. Hospital served as the Principal of Queen's Theological College in the 1980s.

Born Mary Lilian Vaux in Brockville, Ontario, Mackinnon was a student at Queen's from 1898 until 1902. She was a top student, editor of the "Ladies' Department" of the Queen's Journal, and a founding member of Queen's Dramatic Club. She graduated with the University's gold medal in English.
She married a fellow Queen's graduate, Murdoch Archibald MacKinnon, after graduation and lived in various cities across Canada, where he served as a Presbyterian minister.
Miriam of Queen's, published in 1921, was her first novel and the only one she ever published. Mackinnon apparently quit writing until shortly before her husband's death in 1954, when she began to submit reminiscences about her past to small newspapers and to the Alumni Review and the Queen's Quarterly.
MacKinnon was 96 and Queen's oldest living woman graduate when she died in 1975.

Nancy Ossenberg was born on April 23, 1933 in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, graduated from Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and earned her degrees (BA, MA, PhD) at the University of Toronto. She taught in the Anatomy Department at the University of Alberta before moving to Queens University in the Department of Anatomy where she taught and researched for 25 years, retiring in 1998. In addition to being a beloved teacher of anatomy, Nancy was a well-respected physical anthropologist, and left a significant body of research on human ethnogenesis and the migrations of humans to the North American continent.