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William Wells was born in 1768 at Sandown, New Hampshire and settled permanently in Augusta Township, Upper Canada in 1787. He was a lumber merchant and farmer, served as a Captain of Militia in the War of 1812-15, was taken prisoner by the Americans and released on parole. He was also a Justice of the Peace. In 1799 he married Sarah Clough and they had eight children: Ruth (b. 1800), Sally (1801-1835), Horace Clough (1802-1876), Maria (1804-1877), William Benjamin (b. 1809), Isaac Brock (b. 1812), Thomas Proctor (1816-1816), and Frances Adaline (b. 1817). Ruth Wells married George Longley in 1824. He was a Maitland lumber merchant and M.P.P. in 1827, as well as a Justice of the Peace.

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Margaret Harvey Wilton was born at Kingston in 1903. She attended Kingston Collegiate Institute and later graduated in Biology from Queen's University in 1922. She taught high school at Carleton Place from 1923 to 1930 before moving to Toronto in 1931. She worked in the Ministry of Health for thirty-two years, in charge of a scientific research library. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, and had many individual poems published, as well as having written and published two chap-books of poetry. She died in 1974.

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Professor Brian D'Argaville, art historian, was first trained for the priesthood in the Carthusian Order. He took degrees in philosophy and theology at the Angelicum University in Rome and afterwards his M.A. in Medieval History at the University of Toronto in 1963. He taught at the Department of Art, Queen's University, for sixteen years and in 1968-69 was awarded a Canada Council Research Fellowship to commence a catalogue-monograph on Mattia Preti, an undertaking which was still occupying him at the time of his death and which remains unpublished.

Gerald J.J. Tulchinsky was born in in 1933 in Brantford, Ontario, where he completed his schooling. He attended the University of Toronto and McGill University and graduated with a Ph.D. from Toronto in 1971. He taught at Loyola College, Montreal, and the University of Saskatchewan before coming to Queen's in 1966 with his wife, Ruth, and three children. He taught courses on urbanization, the Jewish experience in North America and the Holocaust, in the Department of History, and was also the Director of the Jewish Studies Programme at Queen's from 1999 to 2002. He became Professor Emeritus in 2002. Dr. Tulchinsky's published work includes a two-volume history of the Jews in Canada: Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community (1992) and Branching Out: The Transformation of the Canadian Jewish Community (1998) It also includes Canada's Jews: A People's Journey (2008), which is considered an update on the previous two-volumes. He also has published Joe Salsberg: a Life of Commitment (2013). Dr. Tulchinsky was a member of the Canadian Historical Association, the Association for Jewish Studies and the Canadian Jewish Historical Society and has given numerous papers and commentaries at their meetings as well as at the gatherings of the Canadian Conference on Quantitative Methods and at other historical conferences and colloquia in Canada, Israel and Britain. Dr.Tulchinsky passed away in Kingston, Ontario on December 13, 2017.

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