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William Joseph Robins of the town of Kingston, gentleman.

In November 1960, a group of women decided to form a social club which came to be known as the Engineering Institute of Canada Wives Club. Over the years, the club grew to a membership of 140 and enjoyed monthly functions such as dances and bridge groups. The club also donated to a worthy cause at the end of each year, such as KGH Pacemaker Clinic. In 1965, the club became known as the Engineers Wives Club. This expanded its membership to include the wives and widows of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.A new charter was agreed upon in 1976 which established the membership tea, along with pot luck suppers and an annual dinner dance. The Engineers Wives Club also continued its practice of an annual donation to a worthy cause.

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Patricia (Patsy) Fleming, the daughter of Brigadier and Mrs. William G. Beeman, was born on 12 June 1923, in Camberley, Surrey, England. She was involved in many, and varied activities in Canada, and especially in Kingston, over the years. She was well-known for her regular coulmn in The Kingston Whig-Standard, entitled, "My Kingston". She was a proud member of the Kingston Historical Society, who honoured her for "outstanding contributions to the preservation and interpretation of local history"; a member of the Board of the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston; and served a term as President of The Thousand Islands Area Residents Association (TIARA). Patsy Fleming was also known across Canada as a dedicated collector and preserver of antique wooden duck decoys, and had developed a colleciotn of these art forms for the Msueum of Contmeporary Art in Ottawa. She was also the author of "Traditoins in Wood", an illustrated volume on duck decoys, which was the culmination of her cross-country fact-finding tour with a ersearch and photography team. Patsy also co-authored "1000 Islands", with photographer John De Visser.

Patricia (Patsy) Carruthers Beeman Fleming, is survived by her husband of sixty-five years, Bob, son John, and grandchildren Nicolas, Philippe, and Amélie. Patsy Fleming is interred in Newburgh Cemetery, Newburgh, Ontario.

Dr. Mahlon Locke was born in Matilda Township in eastern Ontario in 1880. He graduated from Queen's University with a M.D. C.M. in 1905. Locke practiced first at Brinston and then to Sault Ste. Marie for a year, but quickly went on to further his medical education at the universites of Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland. Upon returning to Canada, Locke took over a general practice in Williamsburg, Ontario in June of 1908, where he remained for the length of his career. While maintaining a general family practice Locke became known for his treatment of arthritis through the manipulation of the bones of the foot. Thousands of people from around the world would make the pilgrimage to Williamsburg for his services. The growth and industry of the town was attributed to the success of Dr. Locke's clinic.

Dr. Locke also created "cookies" which were a “corrective” shoe insert, which lead up to the production of the full-fledged Lockewedge shoe. Dr. Locke is said to have disposed of his rights in terms of the manufacture and sale of the shoes by the Lockwedge Shoe Corporation , which manufactured the footwear in Columbus, Ohio, thereby not profiting personally from the sale of the shoes. Locke married Blanche McGruer and they had three daughters, Marion, Ruth, Jean and one son, Parker. Mahlon William Locke passed away in 1942.

Henry Janeway Hardenbergh was an American architect, best known for his hotels and apartment buildings. Hardenbergh was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, of a Dutch family, and attended the Hasbrouck Institute in Jersey City. He apprenticed in New York from 1865 to 1870 under Detlef Lienau, and, in 1870, opened his own practice there.

He obtained his first contracts for three buildings at Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey—the expansion of Alexander Johnston Hall (1871), designing and building Geology Hall (1872) and the Kirkpatrick Chapel (1873)—through family connections. Hardenbergh's great-great grandfather, the Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, had been the first president of Rutgers College from 1785 to 1790, when it was still called "Queen's College".

He then got the contract to design the "Vancorlear" on West 55th Street, the first apartment hotel in New York City, in 1879. The following year he was commissioned by Edward S. Clark, then head of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, to build a housing development. As part of this work, he designed the pioneering Dakota Apartments in Central Park West, novel in its location, very far north of the centre of the city.

Subsequently, Hardenbergh received commissions to build the Waldorf (1893) and the adjoining Astoria (1897) hotels for William Waldorf Astor and Mrs. Astor, respectively. The two competing hotels were later joined together as the Waldorf-Astoria, which was demolished in 1929 for the construction of the Empire State Building.

Hardenbergh lived for some time in Bernardsville, New Jersey and died at his home in Manhattan, New York City on March 13, 1918. He is buried in Woodland Cemetery, in Stamford, Connecticut.

Henry Hope & Sons Ltd were a major manufacturer of metal components, including steel and metal windows, roofing, gearing and decorative metal ironmongery (such as door furniture and lettering) based in Smethwick, West Midlands, UK. Founded in 1818 as Thomas Clark as Jones & Clark, in Lionel Street, Birmingham, they became known as "Henry Hope" in 1875 when Henry Hope, who had become a partner in 1864, became sole owner. Early works included manufacturing glasshouses and other major orders included all the bronze windows for Barry's new Houses of Parliament, London, in 1845 - 57.

The company moved to new works in Halford Lane, Smethwick (now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell) in 1905. Following the First World War (1914 - 1918) the company became involved in the development of 'standard metal windows, along with other companies such as Crittall of Braintree, Essex. Their metal windows were fitted to buildings such as the Bank of England, London, the League of Nations Building, Geneva, ICI House, London & the Iraq Parliament House in Baghdad. In 1925 the company, who had long exported to the North American market, acquired the International Casement Company, Jamestown, New York that became Hopes Windows Inc., in 1930.

Hope's Gearings, along with their metal glazing systems, were fitted to many major industrial plants such as the Ford Dagenham assembly plant at Dagenham, Essex, and power stations such as Cliff Quay, Ipswich, Suffolk. In 1930 the company opened a hot-dip galvanising plant in Wednesbury, Staffordshire and this was, in the post-WW2 period, to become the main plant for metal window production.[1]

In 1965 the company merged with old rivals "Crittall Windows Ltd" of Braintree and the combined "Crittall Hope Ltd" is still, after various takeovers and de-mergers, in business although now no longer carrying the name of Hope. Both the West Midland production plants, Halford Works & Wednesbury Works, are now closed.

The Ukrainian community of Kingston began to coalesce in the 1940's, although there had been a small number of Ukrainians living in Kingston throughout the interwar period and were a small number who had resided in Kingston just prior to the First World War.
The Ukrainian Canadian Club of Kingston was founded in 1980 as a result of differences of opinion about the use of the Parish Hall. The Club was focussed on supporting the political, cultural and social traditions, in particular the two dance troupes which were in the community: Ukrainian Dorist Dancers and the Ukrainian Maky Dancers. The mandate of the Group was to preserve and promote Ukrainian Heritage. It is unknown when the Kingston branch of the Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine was officially formed, though it is known that the national organization was founded in 1949. The group was formed of mainly third-wave Ukrainian immigrants and thought to be quite political. Throughout the era of the Cold War the League was one of the national groups at the forefront of defending the human and national rights of Ukraine. They supported Ukraine’s struggle for independence and other captive nations opposing Soviet Russian domination. St. Michael the Arcangel Ukrainian Catholic Church was founded in 1949 and a decade later a hall was built at 472 Bagot Street and used primarily for meetings, folk dancing and banquets. The Parish services moved to the Hall in 1980, prior to this it was held at St. Mary's Cathedral.
The Ukrainian Parish Hall as served as meeting place and home to the Ukrainian Canadian Club and the Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine at one time or another.