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In 1810, Stephen Miles, who had been a printer's apprentice, established the Kingston Gazette. Only two other papers were in existence then in Upper Canada, one published at York, the other at Niagara. But during the War of 1812 the Kingston Gazette remained the only paper in the province to continue publication. A weekly, consisting of four pages, it was distributed widely in the Bay of Quinte area, and delivered twice a month to York, where subscribers could pick it up at a certain store. In 1818, Miles sold his paper to Messrs. Pringle and Macaulay who changed its name to Kingston Chronicle. Later the name was changed once again to Chronicle and Gazette.

Kingston's municipal concerns were nascent for the first century after Fort Frontenac had been built at the mouth of the Cataraqui River in 1673. The French fort, on a good harbour near the source of the St. Lawrence River at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, remained little more that a trading post until 1758, when Col. John Bradstreet captured the fort and brought the surrounding land to British control. Col. Bradstreet destroyed the fort and the area remained virtually deserted until the main body of United Empire Loyalists arrived in 1784 to create the village of Cataraqui, and to settle the surrounding lands. By 1785, some fifty houses had been laid down on the 1783 townplan of J. F. Holland. With the influx of settlers, merchants, and the army troops that had preceded them, some form of local government was obviously needed, and was vigorously demanded.

As early as 1783, Michael Grass and other loyalists were petitioning the government for incorporation of municipalities with the rights of self-government previously possessed in New York. All matters which could not be disposed of in a summary manner by a magistrate were taken to the courts in Montreal, and complaints, protests and petitions resulted, until in 1788 four new administrative districts were created to the west of the French limits. Cataraqui, now known officially as Kingston, was in the Mecklenburg, later renamed Midland, District. The proclamation creating the new districts also made provision for Courts of Common Pleas for civil suits, and Courts of Quarter Sessions of Justices of the Peace, and of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery for criminal cases.

In 1793, Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe passed an act permitting the nomination and appointment of parish and town officers. These town officers were responsible only to the magistrates of the Court and not to the people who elected them. Thus the Court of Quarter Sessions was the most important part of local government in that period. The Kingston town wardens were paid by the Court of Quarter Sessions but the business of governing was carried out by the appointed magistrates and church-wardens.

In 1816, when the population, only 300 in 1794, numbered at least 2250, an act was passed to regulate the police within the town of Kingston. By 1828, agitation for local government resulted in a move to incorporate Kingston. It was in March of 1838, that the endeavour was successful and Kingston was incorporated as a town.

The limits of Kingston were to be defined by Justices in Quarter Session. The town was to be divided into four wards, and each ward was to choose one alderman and one common councilman. These representatives were to choose the mayor from a duly qualified inhabitant. One of the first actions of the new council was to pass regulations for prevention of fires and to appoint officers for a volunteer fire company.

In 1840 the Act of Union was passed and the United Province of Upper and Lower Canada came into existence. Kingston was chosen as a suitable site for the capital. The Governor-General, Lord Sydenham, secured the land now comprising City Park and the playing fields for the projected Parliament buildings. In the meantime the new, as yet unused, hospital building provided accommodation for the Legislature.

By 1841 there was a move to erect a town hall and market building which would be in keeping with Kingston’s position as a capital city. Mayor John Counter journeyed to England to raise money for the project. He returned successful in March 1843, and advertising for tenders commenced. On June 5, 1843 Governor-General Sir Charles Metcalfe laid the cornerstone of the town hall. The building was completed and ready for occupancy by the fall of 1844, just at the time the seat of government of the Canadas was moved to Montreal.

In 1846 Kingston was incorporated as a city. There had from the beginning been considerable dissatisfaction with the original incorporation act. It had been felt that there were too few councilors, and there was no provision for proper assessment. After 1846 the council increased in size and the councilors were elected annually. The city limits were extended and the whole was divided into five wards: Cataraqui, Frontenac, Sydenham, Ontario and St. Lawrence. By the 1849 Baldwin Act, city limits were again increased and Rideau and Victoria wards were added. At that time the Council consisted of the mayor, fourteen aldermen and fourteen councilmen. In 1867 the Council was reduced to the mayor and twenty-one members, three from each ward, and all were called aldermen.

The new City of Kingston came into existence effective January 1, 1998, as a result of the amalgamation of the old City of Kingston and the former Townships of Kingston and Pittsburgh. It began with a council of 17 members, consisting of one councillor from each of 12 new wards, plus the Mayor, plus four members of a board of control. Before the first term of the new council was up, it decided to abolish the board of control, thus bringing membership to the present complement of 13.

Until 2005, Kingston was operating as a Committee of the Whole system. The Committee of the Whole was composed of exactly the same members as the council. It has traditionally been used for two purposes: either to move in camera for closed discussions or to conduct informal discussions, free of the usual rules of procedure. Under a full-fledged Committee of the Whole system, council meets one week as Committee of the Whole and the next week in a regular council meeting, at which it ratifies matters arising from the Committee of the Whole deliberations. In 2005, five new 'Standing Committees' have replaced the Committee of the Whole committee system. Each Standing Committee will debate and recommend issues to City Council.

John Collins Clark was born 7 September 1787 on lot 84, 1st concession, Ernestown, Canada West and was married on 12 June 1811. He and his wife, Rachel Stover had nine children. Clark served in the 1st Addington Militia. He was commissioned Ensign in 1809 and served in the War of 1812-1815 as such. On 2 October 1816, he was promoted to Lieutenant followed by subsequent promotions to Major on 18 June 1822 and Lieutenant-Colonel on 6 July 1832. He was discharged from his duties and served as Justice of the Peace from 1845 until his death on 2 January 1864.

Mildred Clow was born in Hartington, Ontario in 1893, and was a student at Kingston Collegiate Institute before enrolling at Queen's University in 1910 in the Faculty of Arts. After graduating in the spring of 1914, she later enrolled at the Toronto Library School where she received her diploma in 1922. Ms.Clow started working at the Kingston Public Library the following year, where she worked as a cataloguer until 1949. At this time she became the Chief Librarian of Kingston Public Library, a position in which she remained until her retirement in 1963. Mildred Clow passed away in Kingston on August 23, 1979.

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Ramsay Cook (1931-2016) was the general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and a history professor at York University for 25 years. He published widely on political and constitutional history, English-French relations, intellectual and artistic life and on Europeans' explorations and first contacts with native North Americans. His book, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada, was awarded the Governor General's Award. Cook was both a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

The Co-operative Supply Depot of Kingston grew out of the Co-operative Supplies Depot of Ottawa and was begun in 1969. The Kingston Co-Op was a community affair based upon the Direct-Charge principle; that is, there was no markup on goods sold and the organization was kept going through a weekly service charge and through the quarterly purchase of inexpensive shares by each family unit. Directors were elected by the general membership, with each member having only one vote regardless of shares held, at an annual general meeting. Meetings of the general membership were held, on average, four times a year. Due to waning membership and rising costs the Co-operative Supply Depot ceased functioning in 1971.

Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1923) was born Thames Ditton, England. He was educated at Marlbourough and Trinty College, Cambridge and gained a degree in law. Corbett belonged to the historical school of strategy that rejected the technological determinism of the material school; he examined the past conduct of competing nations in order to understand all historical forces at work and the various alternative appraoaches to strategic problems. Despite the fact that he was a civilian, the authoritative way in which he dealt with his themes communicated itself not only to the public but to the Naval Service. He became the unofficial historical advisor to the Admiralty and lectured at the Naval War College at Greenwich in 1900. At the beginning of World War I Corbett was selected by the Committee of Imperial Defence to write the official naval history. Corbett's great aim was to attempt a marriage between principles and history without sacrificing historical accuracy or the requirements from research in depth. His final, and most important book, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, drawing on many years of research, codified all of his thoughts on strategy.His other books include England on the Mediterranean (1904), England in the Seven Years War (1907), and Canpaign of Trafalger (1910).

James Alexander Corry was born at Millbank, Perth County, Ontario, on 29 November, 1899. He graduated in law from the University of Saskatchewan in 1923 with the highest standing in his year. Chosen Rhodes scholar for Saskatchewan, he took a B.C.L. at Oxford. In 1927, Dr. Corry returned to the University of Saskatchewan where he was a professor of law specializing in administrative law for nine years. In 1936, Dr. Corry was appointed Hardy Professor of Political Science at Queen's University where he served as Vice-Principal (1951-1961) and Principal (1961-1968). Dr. Corry wrote several books including Democratic Government and Politics which was first published in 1946 and has appeared in several editions. Dr. Corry was also a frequent advisor in government affairs. In 1944, he was made a member of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1968 became a Companion of the Order of Canada. He married Alice Madeline Russell in 1934 and they had two daughters. James Corry passed away on 26 December 1985.