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Lieut. Col. Thomas Ashmore Kidd was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario in 1930-1934 and served as Conservative MLA for Kingston from 1926 to 1940 and Progressive Conservative MP for Kingston City from 1945 to 1949.

He was born in Burritt's Rapids, Ontario, the son of Edward Kidd, and was educated there and in Kemptville. Kidd was a manufacturer and wholesale merchant. He served in France with the Royal Regiment of Canada in 1915 and was wounded at Ypres. In 1920, he married Eva Richardson, the daughter of senator Henry Westman Richardson. Kidd was a member of Kingston city council from 1922 to 1926 and also served on the Kingston Board of Works. He won the Conservative nomination in Kingston after the incumbent Conservative, William Folger Nickle, resigned from the cabinet of Howard Ferguson in order to protest the government's decision to run for re-election on the platform of repealing the Ontario Temperance Act and allowing government controlled liquor sales. Kidd defeated Nickle who ran as a Prohibitionist candidate in the 1926 provincial election.

Kidd was re-elected in the 1929 provincial election and served as Speaker of the Ontario Legislative Assembly from 1930 until 1934.

He resigned from the provincial legislature to run unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1940 federal election but won on his second attempt in 1945. Kidd was defeated in bid for re-election in 1949 and again when he tried to return to politics in 1957. Kidd was also a Grand Master in the Orange Lodge.

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Dr. Larkin Kerwin, a distinguished physicist, educator and administrator was born on June 22, 1924 in Quebec City. After obtaining his M.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946, he earned his Doctor of Science degree from the Université Laval in 1949.

During a long and fruitful teaching career at the Université Laval, Dr. Kerwin won promotion after promotion to become Rector of the University from 1972-77, the first lay person to do so. In June 1980, Dr. Kerwin was appointed President of the National Research Council of Canada for a five-year term. This term was renewed in 1985. During these years he contributed greatly to the national awareness of the importance of research and development to the well-being of the nation. In July 1982, Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau appointed him to be Canada's representative on a working group set up as a result of the June 1982 Economic Summit to study how research and development can be used to create jobs and help the world economy to recover. In 1987 he received the Outstanding Achievement Award, the highest award for federal public servants.

Appointed President of the Canadian Space Agency in March 1989 Dr. Kerwin held this position during the crucial first years of the Agency's implementation. He held this position until his retirement from the Agency in February 1992. His research work in atomic and molecular physics contributed strongly to the advancement of science in Canada and for which he has received many prestigious awards. A past president of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, he has been active throughout his career in numerous scientific organizations.

He was a Companion of the Order of Canada, an Officer of l'Ordre national du Québec, an Officer of the Légion d'honneur de France and a member of the Académie des Grands Quebécois. In addition, Dr. Kerwin has been awarded 15 honorary degrees from Canadian universities. Dr. Kerwin is the author of three monographs and fifty articles in scientific journals.

Dr. Kerwin passed away on Saturday, May 1, 2004. He was an eminent scientist and was recognized by many universities and scientific organizations both in Canada and abroad.

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