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The Retirees' Association of Queen's (RAQ) was formally established April 14, 2002. Its stated mission is: to enhance and promote the sense of continuing membership in the "Queen's Family"; and to facilitate and promote the dissemination of information that is of interest to Queen's Retirees. The membership is open to all Retirees from the University staff, non-academic and academic (active and adjunct) and to anyone who has had a significant association with Queen's with or without remuneration. Membership is also open to spouses, surviving spouses and partners, whether or not they have worked at Queen's.

The composition of RAQ includes a Council, consisting of 18 Association members, with approximately equal numbers from the non-academic staff and from the academic staff; Officers, elected from the Council by members of the Council for a term of one year: President; Vice-President; Treasurer; Secretary; Principal or delegate (Ex-Officio); and an Executive Committee, comprised of the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, with other members as determined by the Council.

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The Centre for the Study of Democracy's name has been changed to the Centre for Studies on Democracy and Diversity to reflect the expansion of its mandate to incorporate a distinctive stream of research on diversity and democratic governance. This stream will be built around the work of Queen’s researchers from the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Project (EDG) whose members have joined the Centre.

The EDG is a collaborative international research project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada that has engaged 39 researchers from eight countries. It investigates how states can best respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability.
Now in its fifth year, the EDG has produced more than 200 working papers, held 24 workshops and conferences, and published five in a projected series of 14 books.

In their research the members of the EDG group have an explicit commitment to policy development and the application of their analyses to support peace-building and initiatives in democratic reform. They have been engaged as consultants and advisors to governments and international organizations in the Middle-East, Southern Africa, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Ireland. As researchers and practitioners, they strengthen the Centre’s ability to fulfill its objective of taking a leading role in research on policy for the promotion of international democratic development.

Annie Louise Laird was born in Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, on 25 March 1879. She moved to Kingston, Ontario, when her father, a Presbyterian clergyman relocated. She entered Queen's University and graduated with her B.A,. in 1901. She then commenced her teaching career, and on 2 September 1908, she married E. Pauline Johnson's publicist, Frank Arthur Yeigh (he for the second time) of Toronto, from her living room in Kingston. After the marriage, the couple moved back to Toronto, where for many years, she continued teaching. She was instrumental in carrying on the work of the Canadian Branch of 'Save the Children Fund', from its beginnings in the early 1920s until 1943. The Yeighs had one son, Frank Norman, born in 1909 (d. 1984). Predeceased by her husband, 29 October 1935, Annie Loiuse (Laird) Yeigh died in Toronto, 30 April 1960. She is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in that city.

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Lubomyr Luciuk was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario. He is a graduate of Queen's University (BSc 1976, MA 1979) and the University of Alberta (PhD, 1984) and has held post-doctoral fellowships at University of Toronto and Queen's University. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Politics and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston. Lubomyr Luciuk specializes in the political geography of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, refugee studies, and the ethnic and immigration history of Canada. Luciuk has served as a Member of the federal Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and as a founding member and director of research for the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA).

Luciuk has published numerous articles, op-eds, scholarly books and popular texts on the Ukrainian Canadian experience in Canada. His books include:The Holodomor and the Holy See (2011), In Fear of the Barbed Wire Fence: Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Ukranian Canadians, 1914-1920 (2001), Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Canada and the Migration of Memory (2000), Canada's Ukrainians: Negotiating an Identity (1991), Creating a Landscape: A Geography of Ukrainians in Canada (1989), Internment Operations: the Role of Old Fort Henry in World War I (1980).

Luciuk was a leading champion of the Ukrainian Canadian community's request that the Government of Canada acknowledge what happened to Ukrainians and other Europeans during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, a campaign that took some 20 years to succeed and in May 2008 resulted in the signing of an agreement establishing a $10 million endowment within the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko. Luciuk currently sits as a member of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund, the council that oversees the endowment.

Luciuk has been recognized for his various activities through a number of awards: John Sopinka Award for Excellence in Ukrainian Studies; various Doctoral/Postdoctoral Fellowships; Canada Research Fellowship; and the Shevchenko Medal for Education from the Ukrainian Congress of Canada.

Frank Malcolm "Mac" Young attended Queen's medical school and graduated with a M.D.C.M in 1941.

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