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Created in 1971, the Rideau Trail Association (RTA) is a non-profit organization which maintains a 300 kilometer trail and promotes hiking. The RTA consists of three local clubs -- Kingston, Ottawa, and Central (Perth). These clubs sponsor day hikes and other outdoor activities. The Association publishes a quarterly newsletter which keeps members informed of activities and contains articles of common interest.

Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards (July 4,1906-January 5,1997) C.B.E., F.R.S., Regis Professor of Natural History, University of Aberdeen, 1946-1974 was a British ethnologist who's writings on group selection became the focus of often acrimonious debate among theorists in the 1960's and 1970's. He was born in England. In 1924, he went up to New College, Oxford where, in 1927, he took a first in Zoology studying under such men as Julian Huxley, E.S. Goodrich, E.B. Ford, John R. Baker and Charles Elton who became his tutor after Huxley left Oxford. In 1929 he received an invitation to go to McGill University in Montreal and so Wynne-Edwards emigrated to Canada. During his years at McGill, the flora of Canada and the arctic became a part of his interest. This interest led to election to the Royal Society of Canada, (1940). He transferred his interest in fishes to the freshwater fauna of the St. Lawrence and its tributaries. This resulted in a faunal survey for the Quebec Provincial Government, from the South West corner of the Province to the Gaspé peninsula which was still in progress when he left Canada. In 1937 he was the Canadian `official' on board the Gloucester schooner "Gertrude Thebauld" the "Bluenose's" great American racing rival when Commander Donald B. MacMillan took her on his cruise to Labrador and Southern Baffin Island that year. Among other things, he managed to make the most detailed sketch map of the mountainous south coast of Frobisher Bay that had been made to that time. When, in 1945, the first area survey maps of the region appeared a small bay was named after Wynne-Edwards. In 1946 Wynne-Edwards accepted the chair of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen and the family emigrated to Scotland. Wynne-Edwards held the Regius Chair of Natural History at Aberdeen University from 1946 until his retirement in 1974. In 1956 he initiated an important research project on the population ecology and behaviour of red grouse which was still active at his death. He established the Culterty Field Station as a centre for post-graduate training and research in ecology and was instrumental in re-housing his department in a new building in 1970. He also served as Vice-Principal of Aberdeen University between 1970 and 1974.

The book for which Wynne-Edwards will be most remembered is Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour, (1962). It is the scholarly result of a lifelong consideration of the process of limiting animal numbers and became, probably the most controversial book of its kind in the nineteen sixties and seventies.

MacLennan Associates Architects is an architectural firm in the sole proprietorship of Neil Kirk MacLennan, MRAIC, OAA. Mr. MacLennan began his architectural vocation in 1954 and has since then involved himself in all the major aspects of professional and service practice in the business. His education in the professions of architecture and archaeology took place in several countries and he served internships under Louis I. Kahn in the U.S. and Heikki Siren in Helsinki. From 1959-1971, institutional building design was the mainstay of the partnerships that Mr. MacLennan was involved with. This work resulted in major hospitals in Toronto, Barrie, Kitchener, Brockville and Kingston. Since 1974 MacLennan and associates has competed for a wide variety of building types and complexity, with a specialization in the restoration of older and period buildings. The firm was established in 1972 to be a team of five highly-qualified persons. Workload has caused staff increases to as many as twelve but the firm has attempted to maintain the smaller number over the long term. From 1977 the firm served as a training office for the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. The firm closed in 1996 upon the retirement of Mr. MacLennan.

Born in 1916, in Embro, Ontario A.M. Ross graduated from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario with a B.A. (Hons.) in English in 1940. With the commencement of World War Two, Alexander Ross enlisted in the Canadian Army overseas, serving with 17th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery. At the conclusion of hositilities and following an honorable discharge, with distinction, he received his M.A. from the same University in 1948. He then took a position as Lecturer at Lakehead Technical Institute in Port Arthur, Ontario, and in 1954, after spending a year at the Institute of Education at the University of London, joined the Faculty as a Professor of English at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario. Following the reorganization of the College into the University of Guelph in 1964, he became Chairman of the Department of English Language and Literature in the University's College of Arts. Since his retirement in 1978, he has devoted himself to travelling and the writing of numerous articles and a number of books. Alexander M. Ross lived for many years in Portland, Ontario, before removing to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, where he resided until his death on 16 April 2010.

Charles Wilkes, naval officer, was born in New York City, 3 April, 1798 and died in Washington, D. C., 8 February, 1877. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1818, and was promoted to lieutenant in April of 1826. He was appointed to the department of charts and instruments in 1830, and was the first in the United States to set up fixed astronomical instruments and observe with them. On 18 August, 1838, he sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, in command of a squadron of five vessels and a store-ship, to explore the southern seas. He visited Madeira., the Cape Verd islands, Rio de Janeiro, Tierra del Fuego, Valparaiso, Callao, the Paumotou group, Tahiti, the Samoan group (which he surveyed and explored), Wallis island, and Sydney in New South Wales. He left Sydney in December, 1839, and discovered what he thought to be an Antarctic continent, sailing along vast ice-fields for several weeks. In 1840 he thoroughly explored the Fiji group, and visited the Hawaiian islands, where he measured intensity of gravity by means of the pendulum on the summit of Mauna Loa. In 1841 he visited the northwestern coast of America and Columbia and Sacramento rivers, and on 1 November set sail from San Francisco, visited Manila, Sooloo, Borneo, Singapore, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena, and cast anchor at New York on 10 June, 1842.

Charges preferred against him by some of his officers were investigated by a court-martial, and he was acquitted of all except illegally punishing some of his crew, for which he was reprimanded. He served on the coast survey in 1842-1843, was promoted to commander in July of 1843, and employed in connection with the report on the exploring expedition at Washington in 1844-1861. He was commissioned a Captain, 14 September, 1855, and when the civil war opened was placed in command of the steamer "San Jacinto" in 1861 and sailed in pursuit of the Confederate privateer "Sumter." On 8 November, 1861, he intercepted at sea the English mail-steamer "Trent", bound from Havana to St. Thomas, Wisconsin, and sent Lieutenant Donald M. Fairfax on board to bring off the Confederate commissioners, John Slidell and James M. Mason, with their secretaries. The officials were removed to the "San Jacinto," in which they were taken to Fort Warren, in Boston harbor.

The navy department gave Captain Wilkes an emphatic commendation; congress passed a resolution of thanks, and his act caused great rejoicing throughout the north, where he was the hero of the hour. But on the demand of the British government that Mason and Slidell should be given up, Sec. Seward complied, saying in his despatch that, although the commissioners and their papers were contraband of war, and therefore Wilkes was right in capturing them, he should have taken the "Trent" into port as a prize for adjudication. As he had failed to do so, and had constituted himself a judge in the matter, to approve his act would be to sanction the "right of search," which had always been denied by the United States government. The prisoners were therefore released. Though he was officially thanked by Congress, his action was later disavowed by President Lincoln.

In 1862 Wilkes commanded the James river flotilla, and shelled City Point. He was promoted to Commodore, 16 July, 1862, and took charge of a special squadron in the West Indies. He was placed on the retired list because of age, 25 June, 1864, and promoted to rear-admiral on the retired list, 25 July, 1866. For his services to science as an explorer he received a gold medal from the Geographical Society of London. Wilkes' obsessive behavior and harsh code of shipboard discipline reportedly shaped Herman Melville's characterization of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. He died in Washington, D. C. on February 8, 1877. In August 1909, the United States paid its final tribute to the controversial Wilkes by moving his remains to Arlington National Cemetery.