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James Walter Houlden was born in 1904 and attended Queen's University, graduating in Applied Science in 1927. He was an accomplished athlete and inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1982. He was known for his expertise and skills in rifles and shooting and was instrumental to the establishment of the Junior Hunting Training Program. He joined the Montreal Regiment one day before the outbreak of World War Two, and was the Chief Ballistician for Canadian Industries Limited and Defence Industries Limited during the war years. Mr. Houlden is a Life Member of the Ontario Rifle Association, the Quebec Rifle Association, and the National Rifle Association of Great Britain; a Life Governor of the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association, and an Honourary Life Member of the Manitoba Provincial Association.

House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 by writers Dennis Lee and David Godfrey. Anansi started as a small press with a mandate to publish Canadian writers, and quickly gained attention for publishing authors such as Margaret Atwood, Matt Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, and Erín Moure, as well as George Grant and Northrop Frye. French-Canadian works in translation have always been an important part of the list, and prominent Anansi authors in translation include Roch Carrier, Marie-Claire Blais, Anne Hébert, and France Daigle. Today, the company specializes in finding and developing Canadian writers of literary fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction, including Katherena Vermette, Lisa Moore, Patrick DeWitt, Lynn Coady, Rawi Hage, Kathleen Winter, Zoe Whittall, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and in maintaining the culturally significant backlist that has accumulated in the decades since the house was founded. Groundwood Books was established in 1978 and is dedicated to the production of children’s books for all ages, including fiction, picture books and nonfiction.

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The House of Industry was established in 1848 by the Female Benevolent Society of Kingston, the group that had earlier initiated the Kingston General Hospital. The House of Industry was intended to bring relief to the many Irish immigrants who had arrived in Kingston destitute as a result of the famine in Ireland and the plague which spread through the ships coming to America. The House of Industry provided more or less permanent shelter for anyone needing it and temporary refuge and aid to those called outdoor paupers. A school was run in conjunction with the institution. The institution passed through several phases and, at different times, was variously called House of Refuge, Home for the Aged and, finally, Rideaucrest. The care of orphans was undertaken in the Orphan's Home, and women with infants were cared for in the Home for Friendless Women and Infants. It is now under the direction of the Rideaucrest Home Committee, a standing committee of the Kingston City Council.

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James Curtis "Pat" Houston, a mining engineer, was born 19 July 1906 in Toronto, Ontario. Raised in Jordan Station, Ontario, he attended Queen's University and graduated in 1930 with a BSc in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering. Houston worked in Manitoba as a bush miner, and later in Sudbury, Ontario. He passed away in 1996.

J.C. Houston was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

May Houston was a photographer based in Alton, ON.

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