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Student, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

Derek F. Crawley was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1n 1924, where he attended high school. He received his bachelor's and Master's degrees from Oxford University; and his doctorate from Northwestern University in Evanston (Chicago), Illinois, in Renaissance drama. He came to Queen's University in Kingston in the 1960's, teaching in the Department of English for the next thirty years. During his time in an academic setting, he was engaged in teaching undergraduate and graduate students alike, serving on numeorus University and community committees, and publishing prolifically in the fields of English Renaaissance and Shakesperean studies, and Canadian Literature. His untimely death on 10 July 2001, in Kingston, Ontario, left his wife and three sons.

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Frank Eames was a local historian in Gananoque, Ontario.

Arthur Eddington was born on December 28, 1882 in Kendal, England. He attended Owens College where he studied physics and mathematics until he graduated in 1902. From 1906 to 1913, he was the primary assistant at the Greenwich Royal Observatory. In 1913, he accepted a position as a professor of astronomy at Cambridge. While at Cambridge, between 1914 and 1918, his main area of study became that of relativity. He was knighted in 1930 as a result of his work. He spent a great deal of his remaining years critiquing the work of his colleagues in astrophysics.

Eddington made significant contributions and published several books that helped expand the areas of general relativity and astrophysics. He studied the properties of a solar eclipse on various expeditions around the world. This research eventually confirmed Albert Einstein's theory that as light passes a very massive star, its path is bent due to gravity. Eddington spent a great amount of time researching the internal makeup of stars. One of his findings in this field was that the scattering of electrons is the primary source of the opacity of stars. Along with this finding, he also determined that a star's luminosity if finite for a supplied mass. The divisor of the inequality for finding a star's maximum luminosity is now called the Eddington Limit. These findings were published in 1926 in his book "The Internal Constitution of Stars." Both he and Albert Einstein created arguments against the existence of black holes, which were subsequently disproved in the 1950s. Sir Arthur Eddington died on November 22, 1944 in Cambridge, England.

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Aegidius Fauteux was born on 27 September 1876 to Hercule Fauteux and Exilda Dagenais. He completed a classical education at the Collège de Montréal. Fauteux felt a calling to the priesthood so he studied theology at the Grand Séminaire de Montréal between the years of 1887-1893. Discovering that his vocation was not in the clergy, he enrolled in law school at the Université Laval de Montréal. He was called to the bar in July 1903, but never practised. In 1902, he founded the newspaper Le Rappel. He remained its publisher until 1904. In 1905, he became parliamentary correspondent for the Quebec newspaper La Patrie until 1909. His last encounter with journalism was being the editor-in-chief to the newspaper La Presse from 1909 to 1912. In 1911, he married Antonia Chevrier. In 1912, he began working at the Bibliothèque St. Sulpice, Montreal. The Great Depression caused the closure of the library in 1931, but Fauteux was hired by the city and worked as a librarian until his death in 1941. In 1937, he was the director and co-founder of the École de bibliothéconomie de l’Université de Montréal. Fauteux died a widower in Montréal on 22 April 1941, leaving an adopted daughter, Marie-Laure.

The First Congregational Church of Kingston on Wellington Street at Johnson was built in 1865. Tradition has it that there had been a "Union" meeting place in Kingston since about 1810. Those who attended were not Church of England members, but people holding evangelical or independent views: Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists. The various groups that had made up the "Union" body eventually built churches of their own and the land at the corner of Wellington and Johnson was deeded to the Congregational church trustees in 1850. This occurred during the Pastorate of Reverend Kenneth M. Fenwick. For a variety of reasons, the membership of First Congregational Church declined and the members united with the members of Chalmers Church in 1922. In 1923 the church building was sold to the Masonic Order.

Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle was born at Peterborough, Ontario, in 1858. After leaving school he joined his father in a pork-packing and provision business. On September 29, 1882, he married Clara, the daughter of the Reverend Oren Hamilton Ellsworth and together they had one son and two daughters. In 1887, he moved to Toronto where he achieved prominence in the packing industry and became a leading industrialist, financier and philanthropist. In 1889 he was elected President of the National Trust Company and Vice-President of the Robert Simpson Company. He was also a governor of the University of Toronto. From 1915 to 1921 he was chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board (I.M.B.), a body which succeeded the Shell Committee formed by Sam Hughes in 1914. From 1920 to 1922 he was chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway and took a leading part in the reorganization that led to the founding of the Canadian National Railway. He died at Palm Beach, Florida, on March 7, 1939.