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The position of University Chaplain dates from the end of the Second World War. University officials, concerned about the special needs and difficulties of veterans returning to classes, hired a special "Advisor to Ex-Service Personnel," the Reverend Jack Leng, to provide support and counsel for students. The position was given a broader mandate and retitled "University Chaplain" in 1947, when Leng was replaced by the Reverend Dr. A. Marshall Laverty. At that time, the position was unique among Canadian universities; today it is becoming rare again, as other universities dispense with the office. Padre Laverty, or just "the Padre" as he was more commonly known, filled the post until 1983, when he turned 70, after having served as the University Chaplain for 36.5 years. The second University Chaplain also came from the United Church: Brian Yealland, who was appointed to the position of University Chaplain following Laverty's retirement. Yealland would go on to serve as the University Chaplain for 30 years before retiring in June 2013. Kate Johnson was appointed as Inter-faith Chaplain at Queen's in 2013.
The Chaplain now has several main duties: he or she officiates at ceremonial University occasions such as Convocation; assists students and staff on behalf of the University when there is a death or other serious occurrence in the family, or on campus; and provides a source of counselling or support on a drop-in basis for all members of the Queen's community. The Chaplain also coordinates the chaplaincy team and the Interfaith Council. The position of Chaplain is officially a non-sectarian one.

Born in Kingston in 1884, James MacKerras Macdonnell attended Queen's University, graduating in 1905 with his Master of Arts degree. In that year he was the Rhodes scholar for Ontario, and in 1908 he graduated from Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Upon his return to Canada he enrolled in the Ontario Law School, Osgoode Hall and was called to the bar in 1911. From 1911 to 1944 Mr. Macdonnell held various positions with the National Trust Company, resigning as President to seek election to the House of Commons. He was elected in 1945 for the riding of Muskoka-Ontario and was named financial critic for the Progressive Conservative Party. He remained active in politics until 1962. He was awarded the Companion of the Order of Canada on December 22 1967. Macdonnell died on July 27 1973.

Stuart Lyon Smith, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) was born in 1938 at Montreal. He was educated as a psychiatrist at McGill University and was subsequently on the faculty of McMaster University Medical School, and Director of In-Patient Psychiatric Services, St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton.
Dr. Smith entered public life as executive assistant to the Hon. Alan McNaughton, then Speaker of the House of Commons. He was elected as Liberal candidate for the riding of Hamilton-Wentworth in the Ontario Legislature in 1975 and re-elected in 1977 and 1981. He was chosen leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1976 and served in that role and as leader of the official opposition until 1981. In 1981, he resigned the Hamilton-Wentworth seat when he was appointed Chairman of the Science Council of Canada, a position he held until 1987.
A year after leaving the Council, he founded RockCliffe Research and Technology Inc., a firm which introduced public-private partnerships into government laboratories. From 1995 to 2002, he was chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.
In 1994, Smith proposed the creation of a private-sector water company in the City of Hamilton, and was named as the founding president of the Philip Utilities Management Corporation (PUMC). More recently, Smith has served as Chairman of the Board of Esna Tech in Richmond Hill. and as chair of the board for Humber College in Toronto. From 2012-2013, Smith was appointed commissioner of the Intercounty Baseball League, a semi-pro baseball league in Ontario.

The group we now know as the Kingston Symphony was founded as the New Symphony Association of Kingston in 1953, and was so named to distinguish it from both Oscar Telgmann's Kingston Symphony, active from 1912-1938, and other, shorter-lived ensembles. The orchestra made its debut accompanying that same performance of The Creation in April 1954. Today, they have a full-time staff of two, a professional music director, a part-time staff of six, nine core and up to fifty-five community musicians, and they give over 20 concerts per season.

Eric W. Thrift was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 23 August 1912. He attended the University of Manitoba where he studied Architecture. He received his B.Arch (Gold Medal) in 1935. In 1936 and 1937, he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his M.Arch in 1938. From the early years of his working career Mr. Thrift became more and more a Planner rather than an Architect. Between 1934 and 1944 he worked for the Manitoba government's post-war reconstruction committee and then he became director for the Metropolitan plan for Greater Winnipeg, 1945-60. Between 1960 and 1970, he served as the General Manager of the National Capital Region. He then moved to Queen's University at Kingston where he served as both a teacher and head of campus planning. In 1981 he became Professor Emeritus at Queen's. He passed away in Kingston in 1995.

The oldest student association in Canada, the Alma Mater Society has been the central student organization at Queen's since its founding in 1858. Its original goals were social and academic, as well as, political, which were to promote "the maintenance and defence of students' rights, the interchange of friendly intercourse, the promotion and encouragement of learning, and the furtherance of the general interests of the University." It grew out of the old Dialectic Society, a debating association, founded in 1843. It officially remained a debating society until late in the century. Gradually, however, it also took on more and more responsibility for student affairs, as well as for actual student self-government; that is, for the maintenance of non-academic student discipline. This responsibility began informally to be delegated to students in the 1880s, and in 1898, it was officially delegated by the University Senate to the Alma Mater Society, and the latter's new "AMS Court." In the same year, the AMS overhauled its constitution, and adopted roughly its modern role of representing the views of students, plus coordinating and financing other student societies.

Today, the AMS acts as a service, advocacy, and governing body on behalf of all students, except those enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies and Research, who had left in 1982, to form their own graduate student society (which over time became the Society for Professional and Graduate Students or SPGS. Among the many services the AMS operates, or oversees, are two campus bars, Alfie's, and the Queen's Pub, the "Queen's Journal" newspaper, Common Ground coffeehouse, the Student Constable system, more than one hundred (100) student clubs, the "Who's Where" student directory, and the "Tricolour Yearbook". It also sponsors, or co-sponsors, many campus events, including Orientation Week and Alumni Weekend. The AMS Judicial Committee now plays the role of the original AMS Court . The AMS has an elected Assembly of representatives from the student faculty societies, a ten-person Council, headed by an elected three-person Executive (one President and two Vice-Presidents). Members of the Executive are ex-officio observers on the Board of Trustees and one representative of the AMS is an ex-officio member of the Senate. The Principal meets regularly with the Executive to discuss issues of particular concern to students. A new AMS Executive is elected by students every Spring. The Society's offices are located in the John Deutsch University Centre .

Ann Straus was born in New York City in 1922 and died in Montreal 2017. She studied economics at Vassar and Columbia. She married Maynard Gertler in 1948 with whom she had five sons.

Ann Gertler was an organizing member of Group of 78, Project Ploughshares, Voice of Women (VOW), Canadian Pugwash, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and a board member of International Peace Bureau. in addition to her roles within the organizations, Ann was also a UN accredited observer for VOW and Ploughshares. Her interest in teaching peace led to her role in the establishment of the Grindstone Island peace education centre. Gertler was also an advisor to the Canadian disarmament ambassador at the UN and a board member for Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS),

In addition to her roles for and with these organizations
Ann was also co-founder and Director of Harvest House Publishers from it’s founding, in 1960, to 1995.

The Reverend Edmund John Senkler was born at Docking, Norfolk, on March 4th, 1802. After private tuition, he entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1821, and took his B.A. in 1824. He took orders. and was Vicar of Barmer, Norfolk (no church) from 1820 until his death. Senkler married Eleanor Elizabeth Stevens, in 1827,eldest daughter of the Reverend William Stevens, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge

Reverend Edmund John Senkler and family left England for Canada in April 1843. They resided in Quebec till 1846 when they went to William Henry, now Sorel in 1847. They moved to Brockville and after living in Brockville a short time they moved to Horningtoft, about two miles west of Brockville, where they lived until 1860, then returned to Brockville, first to a rented house until he bought 126 King Street East where he resided until his death in 1872.

Shernold Edwards is an award-winning film and TV writer with roots in genre/sci-fi and family drama. Shernold adapted the novel A Day Late And A Dollar Short by Terry McMillan ( into a TV movie for Lifetime for which she received the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Television Movie or Mini-Series. Shernold wrote for the final three seasons of the television show Haven, was a Producer on the third season of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow and a Producer on season two of Amazon’s Hand of God. She was also a Supervising producer on season two of Netflix’s Anne With An E (based on the novel Anne of Green Gables) and wrote a TV pilot for eOne adapted from the bestselling Fiona Griffiths mystery novel series from Harry Bingham. Shernold was a production/development executive at CTV Network(Canada) where her projects included award-winning TV movies and series like Degrassi: The Next Generation. She attended Queen's University, the Canadian Film Centre’s Professional Screenwriting Program, and has a Screenwriting MFA from Columbia University.

Pamela Main was a teacher at QEVCI in Kingston, Ontario.