Queen’s University Archives

CA QUA02441
Corporate body
n.d.

This is a research unit of the Department of English devoted to the study of written and oral English in Canada. It produced the "Guide to Canadian English Usage" (Oxford University Press, 1997), and is currently involved in electronic dictionary research. The Unit has a computer corpus of 18 million words of Canadian speech and writing. It also has collected the Canadian sample for the International Corpus of English project, co-ordinated at the University of London. The Unit publishes a series of Occasional Papers on English in Canada, as well as a series of undergraduate working papers in linguistics. It was founded in 1981, after Queen's alumnus J. R. Strathy left the English Department a sum of money to produce an authoritative guide to English usage in this country. The Unit is located in the Jemmett Wing of Fleming Hall, Queen's University at Kingston.

Strange (family)

CA QUA01079
Family
1809-1957

John Strange (1788-1840), emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland in 1814 to America, eventually becoming a merchant at Kingston, Upper Canada. He married Mary McGill of Albany, New York. They had two sons Maxwell William, M.L.A. (1820-1880) and Orlando Sampson, M.D. (b. June 13, 1826, d. 1909). Orlando Sampson Strange was educated at Queen's College, and as a physician (through apprenticeship). He married Miss Emily Maclean of Kingston in 1849, with whom he had eight children, six of whom survived childhood. Orlando occupied many civic positions including: surgeon of Kingston General Hospital, alderman (1852-1854) and Mayor (1859-1860) for the Town of Kingston, surgeon for the A Battery stationed at Kingston (a position from which he was removed on account of his politics). Maxwell William Strange was called to the bar in 1845. He was a politician in addition to being a lawyer, representing Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1871 as a Conservative member. He was also a justice of the peace, police magistrate and vice-president of the Commercial Bank. He married Charlotte Anna Campbell in 1849. They had seven children.

Strachey, J. L.

CA QUA10867
Person
9 Feb. 1860-26 Aug. 1927

John St. Loe Strachey was a British journalist and newspaper proprietor. Strachey was the second son of Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Mary Isabella (née Symonds), and the brother of Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie, and Henry Strachey. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and later called to the Bar, but chose to take up journalism as his profession. Between 1887 and 1925, he was editor of The Spectator. He was a close friend and confidant of the diplomat, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, with whom he corresponded for many years.

Strachey, Amy