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In 1831, the Rev. John Brooks Crowe settled in the Trenton, Ontario area. By the time of his death in 1869, he had become one of the more prosperous and influential citizens of both Trenton and Frankford regions. His youngest son, George, became one of the premier contractors and builders in the Trenton district. Among the buildings bearing his imprint are the paper mills at Frankford and Glen Miller, as well as the Anglican Churches at Workworth and Trenton.

George Crowe's eldest son, Dr. Walter Brooks Crowe, built a large and flourishing practice in the town of Trenton, after obtaining his medical degree from trinity College, Toronto. In 1901 he married Alice May Stevenson, the daughter of Dr. John Alexander Stevenson, a promonent physician in Trenton, who had paracticed earlier in Frankford, after he too, graduated from the University of Toronto.

The Chown family holds an important place in Kingston’s local history. They have earned recognition because of the Chown Hardware business and its success. The Chown Hardware firm remained family owned and operated for over a hundred and twenty years. Over several generations, the descendents of Roger Chown expanded the hardware business, providing employment and prosperity from many Kingston locals. Arthur and Edwin Chown were the company’s primary founders, entering into the tinsmith trade 1837, four years after their arrival in Canada. In 1938, Chown Hardware Ltd. was formed as various family operations merged. The company operated in its limited form until 1967. Chown family members through their various endeavors, business and otherwise, had a significant impact on the Kingston community and local history.

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Thomas Darling (1814-1883) was born in Berwick, Scotland and came to Canada in the 1830s. In 1845 he established a business as a merchant in Lansdowne, Ontario and supplying wood to steamers at Darlingside, on the St.Lawrence River. A second store was established in 1871, staffed by Darling's oldest son, John. In 1883 Thomas Darling died and was survived by three sons - John David William, Thomas John and George Henry - who carried on the family business with some diversification. Thomas and John continued in the store while George specialized in imported teas he sold through travelling agents. There are no records of the sale of wood after 1883. Beside their commerce, the family owned and managed considerable property in the St. Lawrence and in the early twentieth century purchased and mortgaged property in Alberta.

The Rev. George Douglas was born in Scotland in 1825 to John and Mary (Hood) Douglas. He emigrated with his family to Canada seven years later, settling in Montreal. Ordained in 1850, his first post was in the West Indies, however, ill-health forced him to return to Montreal in 1852 where he eventually became the first Principal of the newly established Wesleyan Theological College at McGill University. He remained in this position until his death in 1894. In 1854, George Douglas had married Maria Bolton Pearson, much against her father's wishes. Together they had four daughters. Allie, the youngest daughter of George and Maria Douglas, travelled widely throughout Canada and the United States on an evangelical mission with her husband John Arthur Vibert. Mina, the second daughter of George and Maria, helped establish the Old Brewery Mission in Montreal in 1892.

George Vibert Douglas, son of John and Allie (Douglas) Vibert, was born 2 July 1892. He attended McGill University, receiving a B.Sc. in 1920 and an M.Sc. the following year. Upon leaving University, George Douglas served as geologist on Sir Ernest Shackelton's "Quest" expedition (1921-1922) to Antarctica. He returned to Canada in 1932 as the first incumbent in the newly established Carnegie Chair of Geology at Dalhousie University; a position he held until his retirement in 1957. He died on 8 October 1958.

Clergymen, doctors, authors from Nova Scotia and Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

Oliver Tiffany Macklem came to Kingston in 1925 to teach at the Royal Military College. The Bermingham family had many connections with the College and Professor Macklem met and married Katherine Bermingham. They had two sons, Oliver (Dick) and Peter and lived in the Bermingham home at the corner of Barrie and King Streets. Their social life and travels were those of a well-to-do family, with connections with the military and prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in Kingston.

Descended from Irish, Roman Catholic stock, Declan Foley arrived via Chicago, in the newly settled community of Westport, Canada West, in the early 1850's. He soon established a general store and by the following decade, he had begun, along with several other family members, a thriving mercantile, forwarding, and pharmacy business. With his store located on the banks of Upper Rideau Lake, he was able to provide service to both the agricultural/lumbering and Rideau Canal shipping communities. For nearly seventy years D. Foley and Co. was an important member of Westport's commercial life.

John Protaise Foley, a son of Declan's, opened a law office in Westport, following his graduation from Osgoode Hall in Toronto. For over forty years he maintained a successful general practice, engaging primarily in real estate and estate law. Following his death in 1942, his sister Ursula carried on his affairs, and those of the general store for a lenghty period, as she slowly wound down both interests.

James Foley, a brother of John's, aspired to a clerkship in the Senate, in his early years. Over time his efforts were rewarded as he finally attained the position of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery for Canada, a post he held through the first two decades of the twentieth century. As such, his name appeared as the author of many publications dealing with federal elections and their attendant electoral maps.