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Isabel Grace McLaughlin (1903-2002) was an important Canadian modernist painter. She was born in Oshawa, Ontario, to Adelaide Mowbray and Robert Samuel (R.S.) McLaughlin, the founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company and the first president of General Motors Canada. Isabel grew up with her four sisters at Parkwood, her family's Oshawa estate. For her final year of secondary school, she moved to Montreal. Isabel then went to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne (1920-1924) and received a Diplôme de Civílisation Français and a Certificat d’Études Françaises. After leaving Paris, Isabel moved to Toronto and studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) under Arthur Lismer (1925-1926). After leaving OCA, she joined the Art Students’ League and continued her studies with Lismer and Yvonne McKague. In her late twenties, Isabel traveled to Paris to study at the Scandinavian Academy (1929-1930). She returned to Toronto a year later. In 1933, Isabel helped found the Canadian Group of Painters (CGP); in 1939, she became the group’s first woman president. Isabel was also an active member of the Heliconian Club, a Toronto-based organization for women engaged in arts and letters. She developed friendships with many prominent Canadian artists, such as A.Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Prudence Heward, Gordon Webber, Alexandra Luke, Rody Kenny Courtice, Bobs Cogill Haworth, and Peter Haworth. She traveled extensively, sojourning with her friends and painting landscapes in the American Southwest, the Carribean, and throughout Canada. Isabel is an important figure in Canadian art not only because of her own painting, but also because she was an avid supporter of her fellow artists, both on the individual level and on the community level. Notable among Isabel’s acts of patronage, are her contributions to the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. The Gallery, which is named after Isabel’s grandfather, now houses the Isabel McLaughlin Gallery, which boasts a collection of over 3,600 works of art. Despite her continued interest in art, Isabel gave up painting in the 1960s for unknown reasons. Isabel was honoured with several awards for her patronage of the arts and her activity within the art community. She was named a Fellow of the Ontario College of Art (1977), and she was a recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal (1990), the Order of Canada for Visual Arts (1998), and the Order of Ontario (1993). Isabel McLaughlin died at her home in Toronto on November 26, 2002.

Rev. John F. Macfarland, a Presbyterian Minister, was born in Pittsburg, Ontario ca. 1870. He attended Kingston Collegiate Vocational Institute, then Queen's University, obtaining his BA in 1887 and M.Div. in 1898. He had two sons, Foster Murray and Maxwell Theodore, and three daughters, Phrone, Agnes and one other.

Foster Murray Macfarland was born in 1897. He attended Queen's University in pursuit of a BA in 1916-1917, then enlisted with the Royal Flying Corps. He attained the rank of Lieutenant by the end of 1917, just prior to being killed in action in France.

Maxwell Theodore Macfarland graduated from Queen's University with a BA in 1928 and an MD and CM in 1930. He interned at Ottawa Civic Hospital ffrom 1932 to 1933, then moved to Cold Lake, Alberta where he worked at Bonnyville General and John Neil Hospitals. He completed his postgraduate work in Boston, where he married Janet Allan. He enlisted as a Captain with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in November 1940 and attained the rank of Major prior to his discharge. He then moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1948, where he remained until his death on August 30, 1996.

Janet Louise (Allan) Macfarland graduated from Queen's University with a BA (Hons) in 1930. She was Assistant Dean of Women from 1930 to 1935, when she married Maxwell Macfarland. After moving to Winnipeg, she remained involved with the Winnipeg Branch of the Queen's University Alumni Association, and served as a Councillor with the Queen's University Alumnae Association. She died in 1988.

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Gordon Jenkin Smith was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1891. He attended school in Kingston and enrolled at Queen's University in 1908. He graduated with a B.A. in Mineralogy and Geology in 1912 and received an Honours B. Sc. in 1915. As a student he obtained a varied experience in mining, prospecting and other engineering work. From 1915 to 1917 Gordon Smith taught civil engineering at the Nova Scotia Technical College in Halifax , but was drawn back to the family jewellery business in Kingston when his father died. He continued to work at Smith Bros. for 10 years. Gordon Smith married Cecil Gertrude McKee in, or around, 1918. They had two children John G. Smith and Eleanor A. Smith. In 1926 he joined the staff of Queen's University and became, respectively: Secretary-Treasurer of the Alumni Association and Editor of the Queen's Review; manager of the Employment Bureau; Secretary of the University council; Director of Endowment; and finally Treasurer of the University and Secretary of the Board. He was a life-member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Queen's University Faculty Club and the Queen's University Alumni Association. He retired from Queen's University in 1950 due to ill health, and died May 30th, 1971.

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No much is known about the creator of the fond other than the fact that Hilda Reesor was the granddaughter of Daniel Fowler, an early Canadian painter, who farmed and lived on Amherst Island, Ontario.

Professor, Department of Mathematics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.