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The Kingston Dairy School was officially opened on 13 December 1894, by the Kingston School of Mining and Agriculture. In 1895, there were 109 students attending the School. Although the School of Mining would eventually be amalgamated with Queen’s University, the Kingston Dairy School was placed under the management of the provincial government in 1896. The building was located at the corner of Barrie and Clergy Streets, and expanded over the years prior to it burnin down on 17 January 1922. The provincial government decided to rebuild it immediately, and construction was completed the next year. By this time (1923), the School was known as the Eastern Dairy School, and was one of only two dairy schools in the province. In 1927, the School became part of the Kemptville Agricultural School. The Eastern Dairy School was permanently closed in 1936.

Clifford Austin Curtis was born in 1899 in Smith Falls, Ontario. After attending the University of Toronto, he received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He came to Queen's University in 1927 and by 1937 he was a full professor of Economics at Queen's and by 1956 had become the Head of the Economics department. He resigned his headship in 1964 and was then appointed head of the School of Graduate Studies. He was also appointed to the prestigious Sir John A. Macdonald Chair of Political and Economic Science in 1951. Professor Curtis was also involved in both local and federal governments. He was both Alderman and Mayor (1948-1952) of the City of Kingston and served with various federal commissions including the Royal Commission on Currency and Banking (1933) and the Royal Commission on Price Spreads (1934-1935). In 1954-1955 he was a member of the Ford-Harvard Planning Board for the Government of Pakistan. Professor Curtis retired from Queen's University in 1968 . He died in 1981.

Cooke's Old World Shop Limited, formerly known as Cooke's Fine Foods, began as an Italian warehouse, operated in 1865 by William Begg and Co. It was a wholesale and retail grocery, wine and spirit business. J.S. Henderson took over and ran the business from the 1880's to 1924 when the store was purchased by Hugh Cooke, a longtime employee. During the 1930's, Cooke also operated a Red and White Store next door. A fire broke out in the store in 1925 but the building was fortunately saved. During World War II thousands of specialty baskets were shipped overseas. In 1966 John Cooke took over the operation of the store and wine and beermaking supplies were added to numerous specialty foodstuffs and fresh ground coffee.

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R.L. McIntosh was a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Dean at Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Dr. Harold Good, a professor in Biology at Queen's University, was born in Brantford, Ontario to William and Jennie Good in 1920. He obtained an honours degree in biology (1943) and PhD (1947) from the University of Toronto. He was a lecturer in botany at the University of Toronto for two years before starting as an assistant professor at Queen's University in 1949. His research interest was the pathology of forest trees. Good served as Head of the Biology Department on two separate occasions, director of the Queen's University Biology Station, President of the Queen's University Faculty Association (1953-1954), President of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (1959-1960) and director of the program for instructional development of the Council of Ontario Universities (1973-1975).
He married Barbara Jones in 1945, with whom he had four children. Dr. Good passed away in Kingston on 28 July 1997.

The original Fort Henry was built during the War of 1812 (1812-1814), between Great Britain (Canada being at that time a British colony) and the United States of America, and bears no resemblance to the existing fort. During the War of 1812, the British anticipated an attack on Point Henry due to its proximity to the Royal Navy Dockyards (at the site of the present-day Royal Military College) and to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. The loss of this vital trading route would have cut off communication between Kingston and everything to the east of the city.

Between 1832 and 1837, a second fort was built on the site of the first, and it is this fort that stands here today. It was considered even more necessary to fortify this point after the War of 1812, due to the completion of the Rideau Canal (built from 1826-32), placing Point Henry at the intersection of three important waterways: the Rideau Canal, the St. Lawrence River, and Lake Ontario. Fort Henry was intended to be the linchpin in a new, extensive system of defensive works for the defence of the confluence of these trading routes. Because the Rideau Canal went over budget only the fort and four Martello towers, spaced along the Kingston waterfront, were completed. Nonetheless, Fort Henry is the largest fortification west of Quebec city. The fort alone cost 70,000 British pounds sterling to construct, the equivalent of $35,000,000 in modern Canadian currency.

The fort was abandoned by the British Army in 1870, and was garrisoned by Canadian troops until 1891. The fort subsequently fell into disrepair until 1936. It was then restored under the direction of Ronald L. Way as a living history museum. The fort was first opened as a museum on the 1st of August 1938

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