Speaker: Robert C. Engen Robert C. Engen PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, but has lived in Kingston for two decades. He is the author of three books on human behaviour in war, co-author of a forthcoming graphic history of the Battle of...

February 16: Annual General Meeting. The 2021 financial statements are here. The Annual General Meeting will be followed by a short presentation “Architects Working in the 19th and early 20th Centuries” by Jennifer McKendry. A selection of works in the Kingston region by key players in the architectural field in the 19th and early 20th...

Maurice Smith, Maritime historian and former director of the Museum of the Great Lakes, will speak on "The Calvin Company Four-master Barque" about the construction of The Garden Island, an ocean-going barque. Maurice Smith (Barque2@cogeco.ca) is the author of Steamboats on the Lakes: Two Centuries of Steamboat Travel Through Ontario's Waterways (James Lorimer and Company,...

On the anniversary of the 6 June, 1891, death of Sir John A. Macdonald, there will be a Zoom presentation under the auspices of the Kingston Historical Society. Guest speaker: Queen's Chancellor Murray Sinclair, the first Indigenous Manitoba judge, a former Canadian Senator from Manitoba, and the leader of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission. For...

Professor Nathan Brinklow will explore the connection of the Mohawk language to the land in and around Kingston, noting how the Mohawk language has been embedded in local names such as Cataraqui, Ongwanada and Ontario, how these names lost meaning over time and then recovered that meaning. There will be a special emphasis on Tyendinaga....