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Alexander Young Jackson, CC, painter (born 3 October 1882 in Montréal, QC; died 5 April 1974 in Kleinburg, ON). A Companion of the Order of Canada and recipient of a medal for lifetime achievement from the Royal Canadian Academy, A.Y. Jackson was a leading member of the Group of Seven and helped to remake the visual image of Canada.

Jackson’s early art training was partly on the job (he worked at various lithography firms in Montréal between 1895 and 1906 and in Chicago from 1906 to 1907) and partly at night schools, including the Conseil des arts et manufactures in Montréal (1896-99) under Edmond Dyonnet and at the Chicago Art Institute (1906-07). Anxious to become a painter rather than a commercial artist, Jackson enrolled in the Académie Julian in Paris in September 1907, under Jean-Paul Laurens. He stayed in Europe until December 1909, studying, travelling and sketching.

Soon after his return to Montréal, Jackson painted Edge of the Maple Wood (1910), a canvas that brought him in contact with his future friends in the Toronto-based Group of Seven. Fed up with advertising work and with Montréal's indifference to his painting, Jackson moved to Toronto in the fall of 1913. Soon he was sharing his studio with a shy, uncertain painter, Tom Thomson. The two quickly became firm friends, to their mutual advantage: Jackson taught Thomson aspects of technique, especially colour, while Thomson taught Jackson about the Canadian wilderness. Anxious to experience Thomson's north country, Jackson went up to Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park in February 1914. Here he not only found an excellent painting country but also an image of Canada. After a trip to the Rockies, he was back in the park that fall with Thomson, Arthur Lismer and Fred Varley, and paintedThe Red Maple, a sketch in which art-nouveau composition is balanced by bold colouring.

In 1915, after the outbreak of First World War, Jackson enlisted in the army and was sent to Europe. He was wounded in the Battle of Sanctuary Wood in June of 1916. While recovering in the hospital in Étaples in northern France, he met Lord Beaverbrook. Soon he was appointed an artist with the Canadian War Records and was immediately required to paint a portrait, despite his lack of experience with such themes. His subsequent works were more in keeping with his preference for landscapes. From 1917 to 1919, he worked for the Canadian War Memorials as a war artist.

Back in Canada as of 1918, Jackson continued his perambulations, a tradition he maintained all his life. He spent the summer of 1919 painting in Georgian Bay, and in September joined Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald and Franz Johnston in a boxcar trip into Algoma. These and subsequent expeditions provided the material for the first Group of Seven exhibition held in Toronto in May 1920. Jackson's active participation in seven other Group exhibitions and in many contemporary shows, including the controversial British Empire Exhibition in Wembley, England in 1924, ensured that his images of a rolling, unpopulated land became indelibly imprinted on the Canadian consciousness.

All his life Jackson remained a leading proponent of the Group's land-based nationalism. Once his painting style was established it shifted only to accommodate newly explored territory. Never abandoning his interest in landscape, he painted Canada's most distinct and identifiable climates, especially favouring winter, and sought remote regions, including the Arctic, which he visited in 1927 and 1930. But he frequently returned to the gentler regions of his youth, including Québec and Georgian Bay. In Québec in 1926, he paintedBarns, a canvas that exemplifies his use of simple, curving forms and temperate colour to present a powerful, enduring image. Jackson was also one of the Group's most effective propagandists. In numerous articles and in his engaging autobiography,A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson (1967), all written in appealingly colloquial language, Jackson gently presses home his nationalistic vision.

In 1933, Jackson founded the Canadian Group of Painters, which included former Group of Seven members Lawren Harris, A.J. Casson, Arthur Lismer, and Franklin Carmichael. Having taught at the Ontario College of Art (Now the Ontario College of Art and Design University) in 1925, from 1943 to 1949 he taught at the Banff School of Fine Arts. In 1954, he was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint a mural in one of the cars on the new transcontinental train; Jackson painted Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park in British Columbia. In 1963 he submitted a design as part of the Great Flag Debate. He spent his final years as artist-in-residence at the McMichael Gallery (now the McMichael Canadian Art Collection) in Kleinburg, Ontario, where he is buried.

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J.H. "Mack" MacIntyre was a poet. His best known works include "Maple Leaves" and "Sprigs O' Heather."

The Agnes Maule Machar Home, or Machar Home for Aged Ladies, was a retirement residence located at 169 Earl St., Kingston, Ontario. Established in 1932 through a bequest by Agnes Maule Machar, the Home served as a non-profit residence administered as a charitable organization through a volunteer Board of Directors. It was incorporated on 11 February 1966.

Isabel Meteyard was the wife of Thomas Meteyard.

Sir George Robert Parkin, educator (b at Salisbury, NB 8 Feb 1846; d at London, Eng 25 June 1922). In his own words, the "wandering evangelist of Empire," Parkin was a successful teacher at New Brunswick high schools who became in the 1880s a leader of the Imperial Federation Movement, about which he wrote 3 books. He was principal of Upper Canada College from 1895 to 1902 when he became secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust in England, where he lived until his death. In 1908, he wrote the first biography of Sir John A. MACDONALD, whom he had known, arguing that autonomous dominions could still co-operate in a reorganized British Empire. He was knighted in 1920.

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Carl Sandburg was a well known American poet.

The first planning meetings for a Rotary Club in Kingston (District 7040, Club #4576, Charter 872) were held in the fall of 1920 at Ross Livingston's Men's Wear store at 75 Brock Street. As soon as 16 candidates were recruited, dinner meetings were held at the Frontenac Hotel on Ontario Street where it was decided to apply for a charter. Charter night was held in April 1921 at the British American Hotel (current site of the Four Points Sheraton). It included delegations from Ottawa (the sponsoring club) and Montreal with a total of 100 Rotarians sitting down for dinner. The following week, Joe Stewart took the chair for the first regular Thursday luncheon meeting that included 18 Rotarians.

In 1923, the newly chartered club began to give Service Above Self with a focus on underprivileged or crippled children. The first fundraising project was sponsorship of a minstrel show put on in Grant Hall by RMC cadets in aid of Dr. Barnardo's Boys, who were orphaned boys from London's streets, brought to Canada to live on farms. This event raised $450.

As well as fundraising and supporting charities, the club meetings provided great fellowship and excellent speakers dealing with a range of topics that concerned the world, Canada and the local community. Membership increased from 21 in 1921 to 40 in 1924. Dues were $20 a year and lunch was 65¢.

In 1930 The Rotary Club, The Kiwanis, and the YMCA purchased 25 acres of land on Eagle Lake and established RKY Camp to help look after the recreational needs of underprivileged children. To this day the camp is jointly owned and supported financially by all three organizations.

In the early 1940s the club set up The Kingston War Service's Salvage Committee and in 1942 was the driving force behind the foundation of the Sea Cadet Corps and provided $6000 for uniforms, rifles and equipment. The Corps was subsequently turned over to the Navy League. In 1947, an association with Easter Seals began when the club sponsored the annual campaign for the Ontario Society for Crippled Children (precursor of the Easter Seal Society). During the 50's, the club started the Rotary Peanut Drive, which has blossomed into a major fundraiser for all three Kingston Rotary clubs.

Over the next several decades, the Rotary Club of Kingston initiated many fundraising projects for this community and on an international level. In the early '60's, Rotarian Ed Church started a $45,000 campaign for the new International Centre at Queen's University. Rotarians helped launched the Easter Seal Telethon in 1983, and it has become one of the most successful in Ontario. The Boys and Girls Club has received tremendous financial support from Rotarians who consider it to be one of their most important ongoing projects. Contributions for emergency aid and hospital beds around the world have made a significant impact in the lives of those who have needed help.

In 1988, Rotary International voted to allow women into Rotary, and Alice McKeown became the Rotary Club of Kingston's first female member. In 1999, Marijke Wilkins served as the first female president. Today, women make up 13 percent of the local membership.

Bryce Morrison Stewart was a lawyer, author and Deputy Minister of Labour for the Government of Canada from 1940 to 1943. He obtained his MA from Queen's University in 1911, a Masters in Theology in 1912 from Washington State University and his PhD from Columbia University in 1926.