Enid (Goudge) Corbett was part of Queen's University Class of Arts 1962. She received her Honours B.A in Mathematics and Economics. Enid attended the math classes of Dr. Coleman and Dr. Halperin, who were well-known professors in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at that time.
Al Shawana was a historian and former Chief, Elder and Band member of the Wikwemikong First Nation.
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.
Born in 1796 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, Thomas Burrowes served as a Corporal in the Royal Sappers and Miners from 1813 until 1824, the last nine years of his enlistment being in Canada. Following a short stay in England Burrowes returned to Canada with his family in 1826, and secured a position as Overseer of Works on the Rideau Canal construction project. Thomas Burrowes worked with John Burrows, a fellow Overseer of Works, who claimed that he trained Thomas Burrowes in the skills of surveying, preparing Thomas for his registration as a Provincial Surveyor. Later promoted to Clerk of Works of the southern section of the Rideau Canal, Burrowes continued in this service until 1846. Based at Kingston Mills during these years, he chose to retire there at the end of his service, taking up the roles of farmer, postmaster and Justice of the Peace in the local community. During these years, Burrowes lived in his cottage"Maplehurst" overlooking the Rideau waterway and Kingston. Burrowes died in 1866 and was buried in the Cataraqui Cemetery.
Orest Rudzik (b. 1936, Toronto) earned his Honours B.A. (University College) at the University of Toronto, his M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He taught in the Department of English at University College from 1961 to 1986, during which time he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center of the Johns Hopkins University from 1968 - 1969. He created a Canadian Literature Programme for Atkinson College at York University. After completing his LLB (with honours) at Osgoode Hall Law School, he received his Call to the Bar in March of 1975. In his legal career, he served as Senior Counsel to the Public Guardian and Trustee of the Province of Ontario. He was a speaker at many academic conferences and published both academic and legal papers.
Rudzik was active in the Ukrainian community becoming the President of the Ontario Ukrainian-Canadian Committee and served as a member of the Ontario Multicultural Committee. Then he served as First National Vice President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and in a variety of positions with the UCC and the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Federation thereafter. He spent from 1993 - 1994 in Kyiv, as Director of Law Training through the auspices of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation. Rudzik was also engaged in three of the quasi-war criminal cases as launched by the Department of Justice (Canada) against naturalized Ukrainian post-war citizens, against who allegations of fraud and consequent sanctions of deportation were threatened.
Later, Rudzik continued his law practice but mainly dealt with estates and estates litigation. He continued research into a variety of areas of intellectual history, including that of the assassination of Simeon Petliura and the judicial proceedings consequent upon his murder. He ended a 50 year association with the University when he became a member of the Senior Faculty at the University of Toronto, a member of its Executive Committee and was given the title of Senator. Orest Rudzik passed away in Oakville, December 8, 2016.
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.