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Kathleen Ryan Hall: ‘the paths of which we have come’

It was the opening ceremony of Kathleen Ryan Hall on May 14, 1982. Principal Ronald Watts stood onstage in the old Medical Quadrangle behind Summerhill while a string quartet performed. The speeches, music, and light wind of that afternoon are captured on one cassette tape, kept carefully in the building...

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Queen's LGBTQ+ Archives aim to preserve historical records

In the fifty years following the Stonewall riots, the LGBTQ+ community has been advocating for acceptance. Some Queen’s archivists want to make sure those steps aren’t forgotten.    Since 2012, the University Archives have been preserving Kingston area’s LGBTQ+ history through collecting and recovering...

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A Decade of Editorials

For the interactive project, visit www.qjlongform.com(link is external) We are students for a short time. We’re here for a few years and then we move on. University is a temporary home for us. But Queen’s has a long history that outlives any temporary residents passing through. There have...

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A glimpse into our history

The AMS unveiled a 40-piece collection of framed archival photographs distributed throughout the JDUC. The black-and-white installation is permanent, and the concept came to fruition through joint work between Queen’s Archives staff and the AMS. Philip Lloyd, vice-president of university affairs at...

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Social histories get a voice

For the past eight months, CFRC and Queen’s Archives have been collaborating on a revitalization of the Archives’ “Speaking Stones” website guide to the social history of Kingston. Kristiana Clemens, operating officer at CFRC, said their initial plan was to create audio walking tours of certain locations...

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A grave history

When someone’s buried six feet under, it’s assumed they’re dead and gone. However, a century of Kingston’s devious body-snatching history would tell you otherwise. The city was one of Canada’s epicentres for body-snatching from around 1820 into the 1920s. Its prevalence peaked in the 1880s, and dwindled...

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