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Ford (family)

  • CA QUA00763
  • Familia
  • n.d.

Nathan Ford was born at Morristown, N.J. in 1763. In 1779-80 he served with the continental armies, discharging his duties as assistant deputy quarter master general. In 1794-95 he was sent by land speculators to explore the northern part of the state and to examine and report upon several islands near Kingston being considered for purchase. During the War of 1812, he served as an agent for Samuel Ogden at Odgensburg, New York.

Foster, Colley Lyons Lucas, Col.

  • CA QUA00766
  • Persona
  • 1778-1843

Colley Foster was a military officer in Quebec City, Quebec, and Kingston, Ontario.

Foster, John Gilman

  • CA QUA00767
  • Persona
  • fl. 1897-1927

John Gilman Foster was United States consul-general in Halifax, 1897-1903, and Ottawa, 1903-1927.

Fyfe, Sir William Hamilton

  • CA QUA00772
  • Persona
  • 1878-1965

William Hamilton Fyfe was born in London in 1878. William won scholarships to Fettes College, Edinburgh, and to Merton College, Oxford. He took his drgree in 1901. After several years in the British educational system he toured Canada in 1930 with a group of English public school headmasters. He was offered, and accepted, the principalship of Queen's University where he remained until 1936, when he returned to Britain as the Principal of the University of Aberdeen. He remained there until he retired in 1948.

Geen, Albert L.

  • CA QUA00775
  • Persona
  • fl. 1880-1908

Albert Geen was a druggist, alderman and member of the Board of Education, Bellville, Ontario.

Gibbon, Monk

  • CA QUA00776
  • Persona
  • 1896-1987

Monk Gibbon, born in Dublin in 1896, has published poetry and prose for over sixty years. In 1915 Monk Gibbon entered Oxford but after one year joined the British Army and served in France. On leave in Dublin in Easter, 1916, he was involved in the Irish Rising with Major Sir Francis Vane. The strain of this experience and his front line service broke his health and he was invalided out of the army and spent the next few years in the Isle of Jersey, Channel Isles. He taught school from 1927-1939. When his Dorset school was moved to Canada in 1939, he returned to Dublin where he remained. Gibbon has produced six volumes of poetry. His autobiographical works, sometimes in the form of a novel, also fill six volumes. In addition he is well-known as a critic and travel writer.
Monk Gibbon knew and corresponded with many literary figures such as W.B.Yeats, George Russell, Rebecca West and George Moore. He was a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Gordon, Donald

  • CA QUA00792
  • Persona
  • 1901-1969

Donald Gordon, a banker and businessman, was born in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 11 Dec. 1901, the son of John Gordon and Margaret L. (Watt) Gordon. In 1914 the Gordon family emigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto where Donald got a job in a box factory for a short time before being sent to Manning Avenue School. When he reached the legal school-leaving age of fourteen, he began work as a blacksmith’s helper. He worked as an electrician’s helper and a magazine delivery boy during the next two years. In 1916 Gordon accepted a job at the bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto. Over the next seven years, Gordon spent five of those years at night school. He took commercial correspondence and extramural courses at Queen’s University and earned the equivalent to a degree in Economics as a Fellow of the Canadian Bankers’ Association.

In February 1935, Gordon was appointed as the Secretary of the Bank of Canada on its establishment. Becoming Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada in 1938, he then served as chairman of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Between November 1941 to April 1947, Gordon was was appointed Director of the Industrial Development Bank on its creation in 1944. After he resigned from the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, he returned to the Bank of Canada and the Foreign Exchange Control Board. In 1948 he was appointed Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. On January 1, 1950, Gordon became Chairman, President and Director of the Canadian National Railways, which he held until 1966. He was also Director of Air Canada from 1950 until 1966. In 1967 he became President of British Newfoundland Corporation Limited (Brinco) and Chairman of Churchill Falls (Labrador) Limited, A Brinco subsidiary.

Donald Gordon’s association with Queen’s University extended over four decades. It began with his enrolment in the courses in Banking. In 1947 the University conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws on him. In 1951, the Board of Trustees elected him to this Board. Appointed to the Executive Committee in 1964 Gordon was also a member of the Finance Committee from May 1965 until his death. He was highly effective in helping to raise funds for Skelton-Clark Foundation and was indefatigable in his work of soliciting “special names” in the Capital Appeal of 1964. The University has honoured Mr. Gordon by naming a residence “Donald Gordon Hall” and also the “Donald Gordon Hotel and Conference Centre.”

Donald Gordon died in Montreal on May 2, 1969.

Grand Theatre Guild

  • CA QUA00799
  • Entidad colectiva
  • 1966-

The Grand Theatre Guild was established in Kingston in 1966. Its objectives are to promote the greatest possible use of the Grand Theatre and to sponsor performances in the theatre; to raise money to improve the theatre and to add to the facilities of the theatre; to encourage the people of Kingston and district to join in the programmes making use of the Grand Theatre; and to co-operate with the Grand Theatre Board of Directors in developing policies for the theatre.

Gray, Joseph Alexander

  • CA QUA00805
  • Persona
  • 1884-1966

Joseph Alexander Gray was born in 1884 in Melbourne, Australia. In 1907 he graduated from Melbourne University with a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics. With the help of a scholarship Gray studied for three years, from 1909 to 1912, under Ernest Rutherford at Manchester, England. He received both his M.Sc. and D.Sc. from Manchester University. In 1913 Gray became a lecturer at McGill University in Montreal. During World War I Gray obtained leave and joined the Canadian artillery. Shortly after the war, in 1919, he married in London and returned to McGill. In 1924 Gray took the post of Chown Research Professor at Queen's University, where he remained until his retirement in 1952. Gray died in 1966.

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