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Peters (family)

  • CA QUA01681
  • Família
  • n.d.

No information available on this creator.

Reesor (family)

  • CA QUA01684
  • Família
  • n.d.

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.

Frederick Morris Wood

  • CA QUA01713
  • Família
  • 1892-1993

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

Darling (family)

  • CA QUA01777
  • Família
  • n.d.

Thomas Darling (1814-1883) was born in Berwick, Scotland and came to Canada in the 1830s. In 1845 he established a business as a merchant in Lansdowne, Ontario and supplying wood to steamers at Darlingside, on the St.Lawrence River. A second store was established in 1871, staffed by Darling's oldest son, John. In 1883 Thomas Darling died and was survived by three sons - John David William, Thomas John and George Henry - who carried on the family business with some diversification. Thomas and John continued in the store while George specialized in imported teas he sold through travelling agents. There are no records of the sale of wood after 1883. Beside their commerce, the family owned and managed considerable property in the St. Lawrence and in the early twentieth century purchased and mortgaged property in Alberta.

Douglas (family)

  • CA QUA01807
  • Família
  • n.d.

The Rev. George Douglas was born in Scotland in 1825 to John and Mary (Hood) Douglas. He emigrated with his family to Canada seven years later, settling in Montreal. Ordained in 1850, his first post was in the West Indies, however, ill-health forced him to return to Montreal in 1852 where he eventually became the first Principal of the newly established Wesleyan Theological College at McGill University. He remained in this position until his death in 1894. In 1854, George Douglas had married Maria Bolton Pearson, much against her father's wishes. Together they had four daughters. Allie, the youngest daughter of George and Maria Douglas, travelled widely throughout Canada and the United States on an evangelical mission with her husband John Arthur Vibert. Mina, the second daughter of George and Maria, helped establish the Old Brewery Mission in Montreal in 1892.

George Vibert Douglas, son of John and Allie (Douglas) Vibert, was born 2 July 1892. He attended McGill University, receiving a B.Sc. in 1920 and an M.Sc. the following year. Upon leaving University, George Douglas served as geologist on Sir Ernest Shackelton's "Quest" expedition (1921-1922) to Antarctica. He returned to Canada in 1932 as the first incumbent in the newly established Carnegie Chair of Geology at Dalhousie University; a position he held until his retirement in 1957. He died on 8 October 1958.

Bird (family)

  • CA QUA02119
  • Família
  • fl. 1800s

Family of Charles Harold Bird.

McLaughlin (family)

  • CA QUA02161
  • Família
  • 1892-2002

Adelaide Mowbray, school teacher, and Robert Samuel (R.S.) McLaughlin, founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company and the first president of General Motors Canada, married in 1898. They had five daughters: Eileen was born in 1898, followed by Mildred in 1900, Isabel in 1903, Hilda in 1905, and Eleanor in 1908. The sisters grew up at Parkwood, the family's Oshawa estate.

MacFarland (family)

  • CA QUA02206
  • Família
  • n.d.

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.

Corfield (family)

  • CA QUA02248
  • Família
  • n.d.

No information available on this creator.

Smith (family)

  • CA QUA02273
  • Família
  • n.d.

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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