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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.

Stewart Fyfe was born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan in 1928. He was educated at Queen's University, receiving an Honours B.A. in Economics in 1949, and a M.A. in Political Studies in 1954. He conducted studies for his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, England in Government, receiving that degree in 1958. In 1956, Stewart Fyfe was appointed to the Faculty of Queen's University as an assistant professor in the department of Political Science. Previously he was employed by the City of Kingston as Deputy City Clerk and City Planner. Concurrent with his tenure at Queen's University Dr. Fyfe served as, variously, Commissioner and Consultant for the Province of Ontario on several studies and reviews. As well, Dr. Fyfe worked in the Institute of Local Government at Queen's University from 1950-51, and also from the time of his appointment at Queen's, serving as the Institute's Director from 1968 to 1972. He has been involved with the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority since 1977.
Knowledgeable on town planning and local government issues, Dr. Fyfe has frequently been called as an expert witness in court cases and in city council debates. His two major publications are the Waterloo Area Local Government Review (1970) and A Look to the North: Canadian Regional Experience (1974). He has published numerous articles and reports, and retired from Queen's University in 1999.
Dr. Stewart Fyfe passed away on January 30 2019.

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John Sherwood (1931-1986), Professor of History at Queen's University, was first appointed to the faculty of Arts and Science in 1964. His undergraduate work was done at St. Peter's College, Jersey City (1953), after which he served as a French translator in the U.S. Army for two years. Following his M.A. from Columbia in 1959, a Fulbright Fellowship enabled him to study for two years in Paris. His major publication was Georges Mandel, a biography of a leading French politician of the interwar period. It was published in 1970 after considerable revision of his doctoral thesis (Columbia, 1967). Two other long studies were published in 1980 and 1985.At the time of his death in 1986 Dr. Sherwood was involved in four major projects

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