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Philosophy professor John Watson taught Queen's first courses in psychology in the 1870s, though courses in the precursor of psychology, mental philosophy, had been taught since the 1850s. Psychology became an increasingly important part of the Department of Philosophy's work in the 1920s and 1930s, thanks to the distinguished Professor of Psychology, George Humphrey, who left Queen's in 1947, to take up Oxford's first Chair of Experimental Psychology. A separate Department of Psychology was founded in 1949, with just three faculty members. The Department has grown enormously since that time. It now has more than 35 faculty, offers its introductory course to more than 1800 students, and has the largest PhD program at Queen's. It occupies two large buildings, Humphrey Hall (named after George Humphrey), and the Craine building (after Agnes Craine). It offers a broad range of courses and conducts research in all the main areas of psychology, including perception, cognition, learning and motivation and their biological underpinnings, child development, individual differences, social psychology, and behaviour disorders. It is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science.

                                                                                                        Adapted from the entry in the Queen's Encyclopedia.

William George Richardson, commonly referred to as George Richardson, joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1965 and introduced the university's first courses in the history of engineering. His book Queen's Engineers: A Century of Applied Science (1893-1993) traces the history of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science from its beginnings as the Ontario School of Mining and Agriculture in 1893 until its 100th anniversary in 1993.

Frank S. Young attended Queen's medical school and graduated with a M.D.C.M in 1908.

The Friends are a group of volunteers who live near the Salmon River or who visit and enjoy the river and its watershed. Started in 2004, the Friends seek to learn more about the Salmon and want to use that knowledge to care for the river and its watershed. The Friends of the Salmon co-operate with the Stewardship Councils of Frontenac, Lennox & Addington and Hastings as well as Quinte Conservation and all other like-minded groups interested in the Salmon and its watershed.

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Courses in Geography have been offered at Queen's University at Kingston since 1954, when Professor D.Q. Innis began teaching courses within the Department of Political and Economic Science.
Commencing in 1960, Geography became a separate department under the headship of Richard Ruggles. It accepted its first graduate students in 1965.

The Little Cataraqui Conservation Association was established in 1973 "to preserve as a greenbelt the natural state of the Little Catarqui River waters, floodplain, and adjacent lands." This objective was to be achieved through promoting development of, and adherence to, long range land use plans within all municipalities which the Little Cataraqui River flowed, and by ensuring that these plans preserved the natural state of that river. The LCEA also sought to encourage and monetarily support purchases of such lands by the various municplaities; assess the environmental impact of sewer, water, road, or land development which would affect the Little Cataraqui River or lowlands; document the environmental impact any public hearing and/or municpal meetings at which potential development affecting the Little Cataraqui River was dsicussed; suppor other organizations whose objectives were in harmony with thsoe of the LCEA; and promote public education releated to all their objectives. While very robust over the interveneing years, by 20009, with an ageing membership and no new leadership emerging, the LCEA decided to wind up its activities.

The Willowbank Cemetery, located on the north side of Highway 2 approximately 5 kilometers west of Gananoque, Ontario, was founded in 1856.

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