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Following the early period of Russian exploration of North America, the imperial government was initially content to leave further development of Alaska in the hands of private traders or promyshlenniki. Attracted by the fur-bearing animals of the Aleutian Islands, the promyshlenniki did not settle in the new territory but only hunted seasonally. In 1784, however, Grigorii Shelikhov established the first permanent Russian outpost on Kodiak Island at Three Saints Bay. Eager to eliminate rival Russian companies and gain control of the entire North Pacific fur trade, Shelikhov expanded the sphere of Russian influence along the Alaskan coast and petitioned Empress Catherine the Great to grant him a monopoly. Shelikhov did not live to see his plans implemented, but in December 1799 Catherine's successor, Paul I, decided to issue a charter creating the Russian-American Company. Although its board of directors met in St. Petersburg, the company's business was conducted from the capital of Russian America, New Archangel (founded on Sitka Island in 1804). Despite falling revenues and a changing world order in the Pacific, the Russian-American Company provided Alaska and the Aleutians with a commercial and civil administration until 1867.

Under Rev. John Stuart, father of the Anglican Church in Upper Canada, a small wooden edifice was constructed in 1791. In the beginning, seven families made up the congregation of St. George's Church. In 1825 construction was begun on a stone building that, consecrated three years later, replaced the first St. George's Church. The original building served for some time as a school house. In 1900 it was torn down. When the Diocese of Ontario was formed in 1862, St. George's Church became the Cathedral. In 1870 St. George's Hall was added and a dome erected in 1891. On New Year's day, 1899 the interior of the Cathedral was destroyed by fire. The Cathedral was re-constructed in eighteen months.

Professor of Theology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Adam Shortt, historian, public servant, and economist, was born in Kilworth, Canada West. He was educated at Queen's University and the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University from 1885 to 1892. In 1892, he became Professor of Political Science and held this post until 1908. Shortt then assumed a position as one of the civil service commissioners, remaining in office until 1918 when he became Chairman of the Board of Publications at the Public Archives of Canada. During his career, Adam Shortt researched and wrote a number of pioneer works in economic history as well as co-editing the monumental series, Canada and its Provinces with Arthur Doughty.

Glen Shortliffe was born in 1913 at Stonewall, Manitoba. He was educated at the University of Alberta where he received a B.A. in 1934 and an M.A. in 1935. During 1935-1936 he attended the Sorbonne and he was awarded a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1939. That same year he came to Queen's University where he was a Professor of French until his death in 1956.

Victor Sifton (1897-1961) was born at Ottawa. His father, Sir Clifford Sifton was a prominent newspaper owner and publisher and served as Minister of the Interior in Sir Wilfred Laurier's cabinets from 1896 to 1905. Victor's Arts course at the University of Toronto was cut short by the outbreak of World War I. He served in the Canadian Army from 1914-1919, attaining the rank of Major and receiving the D.S.O. for acts of outstanding bravery. After World war I he became publisher of two family newspapers, the Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. In 1935 he moved to Winnipeg as General Manager of the Winnipeg Free Press, then under the editorship of John W. Dafoe. In 1944 he became its publisher. During World War II he served in Ottawa as Master-General of the Ordnance from April 1941 to July 1942. He was President of the Canadian Press, 1948-1950, President of the Canadian Institute of Public Affairs, 1950-1951, Chancellor of the University of Manitoba, 1954-1959. At the time of his death he was editor, publisher and president of the Winnipeg Free Press and Chairman of the Board of F.P. Publications Ltd. which owned and controlled the Winnipeg Free Press, the Ottawa Journal, Victoria Times, Victoria Dailey Colonist, Calgary Albertan, Lethbridge Herald, and the Free Press Weekly Prairie Farmer.

Dr. Duncan G. Sinclair, born in 1933, was a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College (DVM) and the University of Toronto (MSA), he obtained his Ph.D. in physiology at Queen's University and joined the faculty in 1966 as a Markle Scholar in Academic Medicine.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science (1974-83), Vice-Principal (Institutional Relations) (1984-86), and Vice-Principal Services (1986-88). In 1983-84, he was seconded to the Medical Research Council (MRC) of Canada as Director General of Program Operations, and, in 1989 he was awarded Honorary Fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Sinclair also held positions at Queen's such as Vice-Principal (Health Sciences) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine before retiring in 1996.

Dr. Sinclair has also contributed widely beyond the confines of academe. He served on the Ontario Ministry of Health's Steering Committee for Review of the Public Hospitals Act and was Chairman of the Task Group on Governance. He was a member of the Premier's Council on Health, Well-Being and Social Justice and acted as Chair of the Council's Research Steering Committee. He was also served on the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation Advisory Board and a member of its Executive Committee. He achieved national recognition as a member of the National Forum on Health and, more recently, as Chair of Ontario's Health Services Restructuring Commission. In 2001, he completed his term as founding Chair of the Board of Canada Info Highway, an organization designed to foster the development of a national capacity for health information management.

Dorothy Browning Murray Sliter (1905-1997) was born and raised in Kingston. She was the youngest child of David Murray and Lottie Maxwell and she claimed descent from the British poet Robert Browning. Part of her childhood was spent in the family home now know as the "Grey House" which is a part of the Queen's Campus. The house was designed by her father who trained as an architect but ended up managing his father's vinegar factory. A great Uncle, John Clark Murray, was the head of Queen's Philosophy Department in the early 1870's. Dorothy, herself, graduated from Kingston Collegiate Vocational Institute and attended Queen's for a short time.

When she was thirteen, Dorothy Murray first encountered Ernest Sliter a badly wounded First World War Veteran. They met officially when she was seventeen and married when she was twenty one.

Sliter suffered all his life from his war wounds and consequently was forced to live on a very inadequate pension. Since Dorothy was herself not strong and very nervous and thus unable to take employment they lived in some poverty throughout the rest of their lives. To save money, they moved to the country. For ten years the Sliter's lived at Abbey Dawn as tenants of the poet Wallace Havelock Robb. Later they moved to Verona where they could be nearer to a doctor.

Dorothy had been a writer all of her life. In her youth she wrote some twenty novels which she destroyed before she married as she considered them to be immature. In later years she consorted with poets, especially through Robb and his "Abbey Dawn Poet's Festivals" which attracted the likes of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Wilson MacDonald, Charles Andrew Tupper and Nathaniel Benson. Sliter brought her own poetry to these gatherings but she was far too nervous to read it herself so her husband Ernie did her readings for her.

Over the years Dorothy Sliter published a number of books of poetry including, "Meadow Long Day" (1939); "High Wind" (1944); "Father Lucas and Other Poems" (1971). As well as poetry she published " The Friendly Village" (1967), an anecdotal history of Verona and her "Memoirs" (1980).

Ernie Sliter died in 1976 and Dorothy lived on in Verona, battling failing eyesight and poor health until just before her death in 1997. She is survived by two nieces and three nephews: Murray Dell, Jeffrey Dell and Barbara Dell MacGowan of Niagara Falls area; Dr. John D. Murray of Toronto and Shirley Hodgins Brind of Geneva, New York.

Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade (b.20 Mar 1859-d.20 Jan 1928), Commander of the Royal Naval War College (1904-1907), Director of Naval Intelligence (1909) CIC East Indes (1912) and then sent by Churchill to investigate purchasing a stake in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP). He became a Government-appointed director of BP. He retired in Aug 1917 but remained a director of Anglo-Persian until his death. In 1887 he married Florence Madeleine, eldest daughter of Mr James Carr Saunders of Milton Heath, Dorking and had two daughters.