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Charlotte (Carlotte) Elizabeth Whitton was born in Renfrew, Ontario in 1896. She entered Queen's University in 1914 and graduated with an M.A. in 1917. Dr. Whitton followed a career in social work and politics. She was co-editor of Social Welfare and became first full-time Director of the Canadian Council on Child Welfare in 1926. In 1941 she gave up this post to write and act as consultant to both federal and provincial governments on social services and welfare. Dr. Whitton was elected controller of the City of Ottawa in 1950 and became the first woman mayor of a Canadian city in 1951. She served four terms as mayor and was active in city politics until 1972. Dr. Whitton received many honours during her lifetime, among them: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1934); the Service Medal of the Order of Canada (1967); honourary doctorates from such institutions as King's College, Halifax (1939) and Smith College, Mass. (1955). She died in Ottawa in 1975.

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Dr. James Williamson was born in Edinburgh in 1806. He studied at Edinburgh University from 1822 to 1829, and came to Queen's University in 1842, holding the Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Williamson remained at Queen's until his death in 1895. Williamson married first the daughter of John Gilchrist, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, by whom he had an only child, James Gilchrist Williamson. His first wife died in 1847, and subsequently Williamson married the younger sister of John A. Macdonald.

Ian E. Wilson, archivist, Librarian and Archivist of Canada from 2004 to 2009 (b at Montréal, Qué, Apr 1943). Wilson, the first Librarian and Archivist of Canada, was instrumental in the amalgamation of the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada into Library and Archives Canada. Wilson began training as an archivist when he attended the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, later obtaining a master's degree from Queen's University in 1974. He began his career at Queen's University archives in 1967. He relocated to Saskatchewan and became its provincial archivist from 1976 to 1986, serving a term as the chair of the Saskatchewan Heritage Advisory Board during that time. He later moved to Ontario and was appointed Archivist of Ontario in 1986, holding the position until his appointment as National Archivist of Canada in 1999.

Throughout his career, Wilson has been involved in several organizations and activities aimed at furthering the development of archival institutions across Canada. In the late 1970s, he chaired the Consultative Group on Canadian Archives on behalf of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The group's report, Canadian Archives, also called the "Wilson Report," was released in 1980 and is considered "a milestone in the history of archival development in Canada." Wilson was president of the Ontario Historical Society from 1975 to 1976 and president of the Champlain Society from 1995 to 2003. In 1987 he became the honorary vice-president of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada, a position he continues to hold. He served on the Information Management Sub-Committee of the Treasury Board of Canada and was appointed their information management co-champion for the Government of Canada in 2002. In September 2000, he was elected vice-president of the International Council on Archives.

The year 2002 was a landmark for library and archival services in Canada as Wilson and the national librarian at the time, Roch Carrier, began the initial stages to amalgamate the National Library and the National Archives. Both Carrier and Wilson led the process to create a new institution that could address rapid changes in the delivery of library and archival services in Canada, services that had become increasingly similar with the advancement of digital technology. The process culminated with the establishment of Library and Archives Canada in 2004, and Wilson assumed the position of the first Librarian and Archivist of Canada in July of that year. In 2008 Wilson was elected president of the International Council on Archives, an organization that promotes the preservation of the archival heritage of humanity around the world. At the same time Wilson continued his work amalgamating national library and archival services in Canada and initiating several key ventures such as widespread access to early census data, and the acquisition of the entire Peter Winkworth rare art collection in 2008.

Ian Wilson retired from his position as Librarian and Archivist of Canada in 2009 and was succeeded by Daniel Caron. Upon retirement Wilson accepted an offer by the University of Waterloo to help establish a campus in Stratford, the Stratford Institute, a national think tank dealing with the impact of digital media. He continues to hold the title of Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus and remains president of the International Council on Archives.

In recognition of his contribution to Canadian archives, Wilson was awarded honorary doctorates of letters from York University (2002) and the University Of Saskatchewan (2010), and an honorary doctor of laws from Queen's University (2009). In 2003 he was elected Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France. He became a member of the Order of Canada in 2002.

Physician, Belleville, Ont.

Emile Zola, 1840–1902, French novelist and professional writer. Zola was the most significant exponent of French naturalism, a literary school that maintained that the novel should be scientific in a strict sense. Inspired by his readings in social history and medicine, Zola decided to apply scientific techniques and observations to the depiction of French society under the Second Empire. He composed a vast series of novels in which the characters and their social milieus are impartially observed and presented in minute and often sordid detail. Zola had an ardent zeal for social reform. He was anti-Catholic and wrote many diatribes against the clergy and the Church. His part in the Dreyfus Affair (notably his article, “J’accuse,” 1898) was his most conspicuous public action, and he became the special object of the hatred of the anti-Dreyfus party. Prosecuted for libel (1898), he escaped to England, where he remained a few months until an amnesty enabled his return to France. He was accidentally asphyxiated in his bedroom after inhaling fumes from a blocked chimney.

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J.P. Milliner and Company was situated at the "sign of the Broad Axe", Dickson's Block on Princess Street, Kingston, Ontario. Manufacturers of axes, blacksmiths' and carpenters' tools, and butchers' cleavers, J.P. Milliner also had a substantial contract with the Provincial Penitentiary, supplying tools for convict labour. The company imported many of their raw materials from the United States and England, manufactured their goods in Kingston and exported their finished products to customers in Ontario, Quebec and the U.S.A.. Much of their work was made to order and the company seems to have maintained a high standard of quality. The Kingston Directories show no entry for J.P. Milliner and Company after 1860; therefore it is assumed that the company changed location or went out of business at this point despite the fact that the company seems to have enjoyed a well-established reputation and to have prospered within the community and the colonies.

Frank Albert Knox, born (c.1895), was a native of Orono, Ontario. After graduating from Queen's in 1923 in History and Economics he went on to graduate studies. A year later, he was called back to Queen's where he began a teaching career that was to span some forty years. Although he did do graduate studies at both Harvard and the University of Chicago he never completed a graduate degree. It seems that whenever he became involved in his graduate work, he was called upon to complete some more pressing task and had to give it up.
Professor Knox served for many years as head of the Economics Department at Queen's, he was the editor of The Journal of the Canadian Banker's Association, chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into the Economics of the Gold Mining Industry and contributed to numerous other studies, reports and papers. He was an expert on international trade and a well remembered and appreciated University teacher. In 1964 he was awarded an honorary LL.D. from the University of Toronto and received a second one from Queen's in 1965. He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the student award for excellence in teaching was named the Frank Knox Award. Dr. Knox died in Kingston on January 25, 1976 at the age of 81.

Verona and Bell Rock (Frontenac) Telephone Company was organized in 1914, chartered in 1918 and operated until March 1962 when it was turned over to Bell Telephone Co.