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The position of Vice-Principal Finance began in 1965 during a reorganization of the administration of the University due to rapid growth at the time. The role of Vice-Principal Administration was examined, resulting in the transfer of all financial aspects of the University from it to form the Vice-Principal Finance position. The first Vice-Principal Finance was Lawrence G MacPherson in 1965. MacPherson retired on September 30 1971, and succeeded by David H. Bonham in October 1971. Another reorganization of the University's administration in 1976 resulted in the Vice-Principal Finance David Bonham to assume additional responsibilities for personnel and staff liaison, purchasing and food services, university information systems, and capital development and financing. In 1977, Bonham resigned and Richard J. Hand was appointed to the role. However, at this time, in order to reflect the additional responsibilities to the position, the name was changed from Vice-Principal Finances to Vice-Principal Resources.

Queen’s University Institute for Lifelong Learning (QUILL) was founded in 1993. Its purpose is to offer opportunities for people later in life to continue learning through easily accessible programs. Although there is no age requirement to join QUILL, most people are retired. QUILL's members are across the Kingston community. Most of the programming takes place via weekly lectures and discussion groups.

This department in the Faculty of Health Sciences was founded in 1895, when Dr. Walter Connell became Queen's first head of Pathology and Bacteriology. In 1919, Bacteriology and Pathology became separate departments, with Dr. Guilford Reed becoming the first head of Bacteriology. In the late 1960s, the department was renamed Microbiology and Immunology. Teaching and research in the department originally focused on infectious diseases and bacteriology, and during the Second World War some members of the department worked on top-secret research in biological warfare for the Canadian government.
The department was closely associated with the provincial Public Health Laboratory in Kingston since the latter was founded in 1907 with Dr. Connell as regional bacteriologist and pathologist.
In 2014, the programs of Microbiology and Immunology became part of the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences.

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.

Simon Oberndorffer was born in Bretten, Germany circa 1826. At 18 he immigrated to New York where he stayed for eight or nine year before arriving in Kingston around 1857. In New York, Oberndorffer had learned the trade of cigar making. Oberndorffer operated a cigar company in Kingston until his death in 1913. Both he and his German-born wife Cecelia (married in 1867) were pillars of the Kingston community and instrumental in the establishment of a synagogue for the local Jewish congregation. Together they had 12 children, eight of whom survived into adulthood. Oberndorffer was a member of many fraternal organizations, such as the Oddfellows and the Masons. He also served on City Council as the alderman for Cataraqui Ward in 1892.

Judith Moses was born in Cobourg, Ontario on the 22nd of February, 1957. Moses attended Queen's University graduating in 1981 with a BSc (OT) as well as a Master of Public Administration degree in 2000. While Moses briefly worked as an occupational therapist at Beechgrove Children's Centre in Kingston post graduation from her undergraduate degree, she soon moved to London, Ontario where she became a frontline counsellor at Women's Community House. For the rest of her career Judith worked extensively in the feminist anti-violence, anti-oppression, social service and mental health movements for organizations such as the London Status of Women Action Committee(LSWAG), the Sexual Assault Centre London, Hamilton Interval House, Hastings County Children's Aid Society, and Citizen's Against Sexual Child Abuse (CASCA) Kingston.

Moses established Radical Revisioning Consulting Services in 1990 which became Collective Wisdom Consulting in 2002. Through the consulting company Judith has provided staff training, Board development, strategic planning as well as organizational investigation service to the anti-violence sector throughout Ontario. In addition to providing these consulting services, Moses is the author of several training manuals and resource handbooks: It's Never Too Late: Senior Women and Sexual Violence; violence Against Women with Disabilitie: Guidelines for Service Providers; Home Safe Home: Violence Against Women with Disabilities Living in Institutions and Group Homes; Creating Inclusive Spaces for Women: A Practical Guide for Implementing an Integrated, Anti-Racist, Femiinist Service Delivery System; and Ready & Able: Including Volunteers with Disabilities-Information & Resource Tool Kit for Coordinators of Volunteers.

Moses currently resides in Kingston, Ontario.

This is the second largest academic press in Canada after the University of Toronto Press. It was founded as McGill University Press in 1960 as the only English-language scholarly press east of Toronto. In 1969, Queen's accepted an invitation to become a partner and share costs.
The press was on the verge of financial collapse in 1980, but survived by moving faculty members into editorial positions and temporarily reducing its size. Most of the Press's business arrangements are handled at McGill, but editorial decisions are made jointly at Queen's and McGill.

MASS LBP was founded in 2007 by Peter MacLeod and George Gosbee. The goal of the company was to look at methods for extending and reinventing public consultation processes, connecting the cause of civic engagement to the broader democratic agenda. A key tenant driving the work being the belief that democratic innovation is essential to the vitality of a society. MASS seeks to help governmental and public sector groups engage with the public through a variety of methods, predominantly Citizens' Assemblies, Citizens' Reference Panels and Civic Lotteries. MASS has conducted reference panels, citizens assemblies and commissions for government involving more than 1000 Canadians, and reaching 250,000 households. In addition, they provide a range of services to public sector organizations including strategic planning and communications, custom research, facilitation and hosting, as well as event coordination and logistics. They routinely conduct wide-ranging environmental scans, prepare case studies and provocation papers, interview experts and stakeholders, commission essays from thought-leaders and host workshops to review findings or carry a discussion forward.

In the mid 2010s MASS was involved in Wagemark™ , which was established to create parameters for a responsible wage ratio within a business. They administered this consumer brand and certification process that was used by organizations to demonstrate their commitment to responsible business.

MASS LBP is non-partisan and does not undertake lobbying work.

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.

The Kingston Poor Relief Society was interchangeably referred to as the City Poor Relief Committee and the Kingston Poor Relief Association. While not an official organ of local government, much of their financial support was derived from the City Treasury, with donations from individuals, organizations and churches also contributing to their fund. The main activity of the Society seems to have been the disbursement of funds. The funds of the association were predominantly for elderly people, widows and children: the “worthy poor”, with most of the monies going to the food and fuel accounts which were covered or heavily subsidized by the Society. There were occasional expenditures for clothing or footwear. The Society was most active during the fall and winter seasons often adjourning for the summer.
The Executive of the Society was composed of many prominent women of the City of Kingston (Richardson, Oberndorffer, Machar, Corbett) who conducted visits to homes and investigated needy cases. While some claim has been made that this Society was the continuance of the Female Benevolent Society which dated back to 1821, there are also other sources which more reliably have it dating to 1867, often being called the Committee of the Poor Relief and closely related with the City Mission Association.