Angus MacLeod’s Sketch of a Comet, 1864
April 4, 2018
In anticipation of the live question and answer period from the International Space Station with NASA Astronaut Drew Feustel, we are choosing for our post this week a “Sketch …
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C.S.L. Lakers tied up for winter off shipyard, 1948
March 21, 2018
In honour of the first day of Spring, we thought we’d provide readers with an image of some melting ice! For much of its earlier existence, Kingston was a …
Letters Patent for the Suffrage Headquarters Ltd.
March 7, 2018
In celebration of #InternationalWomensDay the three photos above are of the Letters Patent for the Suffrage Headquarters Limited, Toronto. The directors were August Stowe-Gullen, Margaret Gordon, Flora MacDonald Denison, …
Kingston’s Olympic Sailing Facilities, 1976
February 21, 2018
Designed by a consortium of local architectural firms, the Onshore Olympic Sailing Facilities revitalised a badly blighted Portsmouth Harbour area for use in the 1976 Olympics. The building was …
Sketch by Kathleen Ryan
February 7, 2018
With next week being Valentine’s Day we wanted to share this archival tale of love. We stumbled across this wonderful drawing in the March 4, 1924 issue of the …
Who was George Masoud? Kingston’s Forgotten History of Syrian Migration
January 24, 2018
Once upon a time, everyone in Kingston knew George Masoud. He was the ice cream king of Kingston (his store can be seen in the above photograph on the …
Ice Storm, 1998
January 10, 2018
20 years ago this week, the St. Lawrence Valley was cleaning up from over 100 mm of freezing rain, resulting in one of the largest natural disasters in Canadian …
Best of 2017: Gardiners Road Drive-In, November 1948
December 22, 2017
From one year to the next, Kingston continues to grow and change in small but significant ways. From the addition of bike lanes to the eviction of the Marine …
K&P Railway Locomotive, 1901
December 6, 2017
This gorgeous photo was taken on a glass negative plate in 1901. Visible on the train is the label “K & P Ry No. 1”, marking it as the …
Aerial Photos of Kingston, 1919
November 22, 2017
With all the construction, and proposed construction, that is ongoing in our fair city we thought it was a good time to take a look at some of the …
Sketch by Edmund Morris
November 8, 2017
In acknowledgement of Ontario’s #TreatiesRecognitionWeek our image is a sketch from Edmund Morris’s notebook that we hold at Queen’s University Archives (Locator 2140). In 1906, Edmund Montague Morris was …
Mother Barnes: The Witch of Plum Hollow
October 25, 2017
Halloween brings thoughts of witches and goblins. And in this part of Ontario, it reminds us of a local celebrity in this regard: Mother Barnes, the Witch of Plum …