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In 1818, King George III granted to the Scottish Presbyterians in Kingston, Ontario a deed for one acre of land on Clergy Street, between Store Street and Grave Street (now Princess Street and Queen Street). In 1820, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church was built on the site. In 1822, St. Andrew’s was opened to the public. The first minister was the Rev. John Barclay, who died in 1826. He was replaced by the Rev. Dr. John Machar, who was the minister at St. Andrew’s until his death in 1863. His successor, the Rev. William Maxwell Ingleis, served as minister until his retirement in 1871; he was replaced in 1874 by the Rev. Thomas G. Smith.

As Kingston evolved from a town into a city during the 1830s, the congregation of St. Andrew’s grew. A notable project of the Kingston Presbyterian community in the mid-nineteenth century was the founding in 1839 of Queen’s University. Also of note is the fact that Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was a member of St. Andrew’s during his years in Kingston.

The growth of St. Andrew’s, however, was not altogether smooth; the Disruption of 1843 in Scotland caused a rift in St. Andrew’s in Kingston. Members of the congregation left St. Andrew’s in 1844 to form what would become the Chalmers Free Presbyterian Church (now the Chalmers United Church). In 1888, St. Andrew’s was destroyed by a fire; it was rebuilt at the same location in 1889. The Rev. John Mackie, the fifth minister of St. Andrew’s, was appointed in 1885 and saw St. Andrew’s into the twentieth century. He resigned in 1911 and died in 1929, a Minister Emeritus, in Coonoor, India. The Rev. S.J. Moore Compton was minister from 1912 to 1915. Members of the Church served in the Great War, and a memorial service and Dedication of Church Windows was held in their honour in 1919. In 1916, the Rev. John W. Stephen became the minister of St. Andrew's. He resigned in 1939 and was replaced by the Rev. J. Forbes Wedderburn, the eighth minister of St. Andrew's. Members of the congregation served in the Second World War, and in 1946 a ceremony was held in their honour. In 1957, Rev. Wedderburn died; he was replaced in 1958 by the Rev. Max V. Putnam, who resigned in 1976 to accept a position at the Scots Presbyterian Church in Melbourne, Australia. He was succeeded by the Rev. William F. Duffy in 1976. In 1987, the Rev. Lincoln Bryant was inducted into St. Andrew’s as assistant minister; in 1996, upon Rev. Duffy’s retirement, Rev. Bryant became the eleventh minister of St. Andrew’s Church.

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R. Bruce Downey, architect, was born in Kingston in 1952. He received a B.Arch. from Carlton University in 1976 and became a member of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1981. Between 1976 and 1978, Mr, Downey was employed by Wilfred Sorensen, Architect, Kingston. He was employed by Lily Inglis from 1979 to 1981 when he established the firm of R. Bruce Downey Architect. In 1983, he rejoined Mrs. Inglis to establish the firm of Inglis and Downey Architects.

Inglis and Downey was founded in 1984 by uniting the separate Kingston architectural practices of Lily Inglis and R. Bruce Downey. The firm was incorporated as Inglis and Downey Architects Inc. in 1986.

The senior partner, Lily Inglis, was born in Milan, Italy in 1926. She received a Diploma in Architecture from the School of Architecture, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1952 and became an Associate Royal Institute of British Architects that same year. In 1957 she received a Certificate in Landscape Design, University College, London University, England. Between 1962 and 1963 she did a practical training period with Kingston architect, Wilfred Sorensen before being admitted as a member of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1963.She had her own practice in Kingston between 1963 and 1965 and had an interior architectural practice in Philadelphia, P.A., U.S.A. from 1965 to 1968. Between 1968 and 1983 she was the sole principal of Lily Inglis Architect working mainly in Downtown Kingston with heritage buildings.

R. Bruce Downey, partner, was born in Kingston in 1952. He received a B.Arch. from Carlton University in 1976 and became a member of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1981. Between 1976 and 1978, Mr, Downey was employed by Wilfred Sorensen, Architect, Kingston. He was employed by Lily Inglis from 1979 to 1981 when he established the firm of R. Bruce Downey Architect. In 1983 he rejoined Mrs. Inglis to establish the firm of Inglis and Downey Architects.

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John Alexander Edmison, Q.C., was appointed a Member of the four-man National Parole Board on January 1st, 1959. Previously he has been Assistant to the Principal of Queen's University, having special concern with all matters of public relations and endowment. Mr. Edmison was born at Cheltenham, in the County of Peel, Ontario. Educated in Arts at Queen's University and in Law at McGill, Mr. Edmison practiced law in Montreal until his enlistment with the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, in 1940. At that time he was an Alderman of the Montreal City County and a Member of the Montreal Board of Health. Mr. Edmison served overseas from June 1941 until January 1, 1945, when he was appointed by UNRRA as its Chief Liaison Officer to Supreme Head-quarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). In France and Germany he set up the organization for the care of refugees, displaced persons, and concentration camp survivors. In this connection he received citations from Generals Eisenhower and DeGaulle. A writer and speaker on penology criminology, Mr. Edmison since the 1920's was interested in crime prevention, penal reform and in the welfare of ex-prisoners. He was a member of the four-man Fauteux Committee appointed by the Minister of Justice to study probation, parole and clemency problems generally (1953-56). Mr. Edmison was married to the former Alice Vercoe, a McGill graduate. They had three daughters. On his retirement the Edmisons moved to Peterborough, where Mr. Edmison died in 1980.

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