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Williamson family

  • CA QUA12270
  • Family
  • fl. 1900s

No information is known about this family

Munhall, Kevin

  • CA QUA12269
  • Person
  • fl. 2000

Kevin Munhall is a professor emeritus with the Department of Psychology at Queen's University.

Leonard, Clair

  • CA QUA12268
  • Person
  • fl. 1940s

Clair Leonard was a singer.

Dicknoether, Robert

  • CA QUA12267
  • Person
  • fl. 1970s

Robert Dicknoether is a Canadian baritone (singer). He was born in London, Ontario.

Shales, Carl

  • CA QUA12266
  • Person
  • fl. 1940s

Carl Shales was a pilot, military flight trainer, and mechanic in Kingston, Ontario. Born in Perth, Ontario, Carl joined the Royal Air Force in 1917. He would continue his service as a trainer for fighter pilots in London and Regina during the Second World War. He opened a car dealership in Kingston in the 1930s, and later worked at Queen's University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He married Helen Carson in 1920.

Lachance, Keith

  • CA QUA12265
  • Person
  • fl. 1940s

Keith Lachance was a Science student at Queen's University.

Asterisk Film & Videotape Productions Limited

  • CA QUA12264
  • Corporate body
  • fl. 1970s

Asterisk Film & Videotape Productions Ltd. was a film production company based in Toronto. It was succeeded by Asterisk Productions Ltd, based out of Burnaby, BC.

Smithson, Gordon Douglas

  • CA QUA12263
  • Person
  • -11 Sep. 2013

Gordon Smithson was a researcher and historian based in Kingston, Ontario. Smithson focused his historical interests on the Pittsburgh community, becoming a founding member and first President of the Pittsburgh Historical Society. He was involved in authoring many local histories and cable TV productions, including "The View from Anglin Bay." Smithson passed away on 11 September 2013.

Schwartz, Joan M.

  • CA QUA12262
  • Person
  • 1951-

Joan M. Schwartz is a Professor Emerita from Queen's University. A specialist in photography acquisition and research at the National Archives of Canada for more than two decades prior to her faculty appointment, Joan M. Schwartz brought expertise in archives, materiality, memory, and institutional discourse to her teaching and writing. She was cross-appointed to the Department of Geography at Queen’s and was an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Society of American Archivists, and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, she has just been made a Fellow of the Association of Canadian Archivists (2022).

Dr. Schwartz has published and lectured widely in the field of archives, historical geography, and the history of photography, and has served on the editorial boards of The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2004) and the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth‐century Photography (2007). She co‐edited Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination (with James Ryan for I.B.Tauris, 2003) and Archives, Record, and Power, two double issues of Archival Science (with Terry Cook in 2002).

Her research focuses on photography in nineteenth-century visual culture and on the relationship of photography and archives to notions of place, identity, and memory. She has a particular interest in photographically illustrated books and the role of photography in nineteenth-century Canadian nation‐building. With the support of an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she is engaged in a four-year project entitled, “Picturing ‘Canada’: Photographic Images and Geographical Imaginings in British North America, 1839-1889.”

Young, Carl Roy

  • CA QUA12261
  • Person
  • -19 Sep. 2022

Carl Young was the Deputy Fire Chief for Kingston Township Fire Department. He was the son of Wesley and Myrtle Young, and husband of Thea Young (nee denOuden).

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