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Sinclair, Duncan Gordon

  • CA QUA01048
  • Persona
  • 1933-

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.

Sliter, Dorothy Murray

  • CA QUA01051
  • Persona
  • 1905-1997

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.

Slade, Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre

  • CA QUA01052
  • Persona
  • 1859-1928

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.

Smails, Reginald George Hampden

  • CA QUA01053
  • Persona
  • 1897-1975

Reginald George Hampden Smails was born in England, and studied at Manchester University, University of Chicago and the London School of Economics. He served with the British Army in France and Belgium, and he was awarded the gold medal from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1920. Smails was appointed to the faculty of Queen's University in 1922, and developed the final year of material of the new Chartered Accountants course of instruction with Professor Walker. He also wrote two textbooks which were the principle accounting textbooks in Canada for over 15 years: "Accounting Principles", and "Auditing". Smails was Director of the School of Business at Queen's from 1951-1958, and retired in 1962. Queen's University awarded him an honorary degree LL.D in 1973. R.G.H Smails passed away on March 12 1975.

Smythe, E.

  • CA QUA01058
  • Persona
  • n.d.

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Sprigg, John Gordon

  • CA QUA01066
  • Persona
  • 1830-1913

Statesman, South Africa.

Stevenson, John A.

  • CA QUA01070
  • Persona
  • 1883-1970

Mr. John A. Stevenson, noted Canadian journalist, was born in 1883 in Ayrshire, Scotland and was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and Merton College, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 1906. He entered jornalism as an editorial contributor to the Winnipeg Free Press. From 1918 he was in Ottawa, as a correspondent of the Toronto Star. From 1926 to 1940 he had the position of Chief Canadian Correspondent of the London Times. He was an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe and Mail from 1940 to 1946, and the Ottawa Editor for Saturday Night as well as the Canadian correspondent of the Manchester Guardian until his retirement in 1958. In his over fifty years in Canada, he gained a reputation as a journalist of skill and integrity. In 1960, he received an Honorary L.L.D. from Queen's University. He died in 1970.

Stirling (family)

  • CA QUA01073
  • Familia
  • n.d.

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Sunnyside Children's Centre

  • CA QUA01087
  • Entidad colectiva
  • 1857-

The Orphans' Home and Widows' Friend Society was organized in 1857 to provide for the care and education of orphans. Initially these children came from the House of Industry, an institution established by the Female Benevolent Society for the poor of the area. By 1857 the House of Industry was well established and receiving aid so the women who had been involved in organizing that agency now turned their attention to the children. In March, 1857, thirteen children were admitted from the House of Industry into a house on Earl street where they were cared for and taught by a Mrs. Harold. Other destitute children attended the classes. In 1862 the Orphans' Home and Widows' Friend Society was granted a charter. In 1862 the Orphanage and school moved to larger quarters. In 1927 the building housing the Orphanage was bought by Queen's University and Sunnyside, the home of Mrs. G.Y. Chown, was bought for use as an orphanage (formerly 241 Union St, now 50 Vandalay Crescent). As conditions changed and orphan children were adopted or placed in foster homes the orphanage had fewer and fewer inmates. By 1947 the role of Sunnyside had changed. It was formally closed in 1998 and the house "Sunnyside" was sold.

Sutherland, Donald Matheson

  • CA QUA01088
  • Persona
  • 1879-1970

Donald Matheson Sutherland was born at Norwich, Ontario, in 1879. He graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces on the first day of WWI and went overseas with the First Division. Sutherland was wounded at the second battle of Ypres and was invalided home, but returned to France as a commanding officer of the 52nd Battalion. He rose to the rank of Colonel and was awarded a D.S.O.
After the War, Sutherland was elected to parliament for North Oxford at the general election of 1925, but was defeated in the following year. In the 1930 election, he was returned to Parliament, and on August 7th, he joined Bennett's government as Minister of National Defence. He served in that portfolio until 1934 when he moved to Pensions and National Health, continuing to head the latter department until the defeat of the government and of himself in the general election of 1935. He lived out his retirement in Embro, Ontario. He died on June 4th, 1970.

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