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Kingston Medical Quarterly was a medical journal published in Kingston Ontario by Kingston News. Some of its associate editors were professors at Queen's University Faculty of Medicine.

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The Kingston Music Club began in 1929 as the Music Group of Kingston Arts and Music Club. Its purpose was for local musicians to get together to listen to music and study from performance of their own members. In 1934 the group established itself as the Kingston Mucic Club and in 1936 the club formed a junior branch, now known as the Kingston Junior Music Club. It produces public concerts that give young performers an opportunity to become accustomed to performance in concerts, festivals and examinations. In 1973 the Club joined with the Kingston Kiwanis Club to form what is now the annual Kingston Kiwanis Music Festival. The club celebrated its golden anniversary in 1984 and continues to operate as an Executive Committee promoting junior recitals and actively supporting the Kiwanis Music Festival.

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Founded in 1994, the Kingston Opera Guild organizes events such as bus trips to popular opera venues outside of Kingston, opera video nights, a banquet with speaker or a symposium on a topic of interest to opera lovers, and an annual picnic in the summer.

In the 1830s a commission consisting of the Honourable John Macaulay, Hugh C. Thompson and Henry Smith Sr. had purchased lot N0. 20 in the first concession of the Township of Kingston as a site for a provincial penitentiary. KP is the first structure erected in British North America to reflect the requirements of the late 18th century prison reforms, namely one prisoner per cell, classification of the inmate population by seriousness of the crime committed, constant supervision, and a rehabilitative labour program. Construction began on the facility in 1834 and the first wing, the south cellblock, opened a year later. The other three wings of the main building, the hospital, dining room, shops, walls and towers were constructed by the inmates themselves. The cellblocks and the rotunda were not completed until 1860 Kingston Penitentiary opened on June 1, 1835, during the reign of King William IV. As the "Provincial Penitentiary of Upper Canada", KP welcomed its first six inmates that day, and thereby marked the birth of Correctional Service Canada and the beginning of 162 years of correctional history in this country. Initially the institution was operated by a warden, a deputy warden, a clerk, a surgeon, two instructors, one labourer, one matron, six keepers and six guards, then called watchmen. Once the institution was under the control of Upper Canadian authorities, convicts were put to work erecting new stone structures and building a high stone wall surrounding the prison grounds. Shortly after Confederation in 1867, the Kingston Penitentiary was taken over by the Domonion government and continues to function as a federal prison.

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The Kingston Poor Relief Society was interchangeably referred to as the City Poor Relief Committee and the Kingston Poor Relief Association. While not an official organ of local government, much of their financial support was derived from the City Treasury, with donations from individuals, organizations and churches also contributing to their fund. The main activity of the Society seems to have been the disbursement of funds. The funds of the association were predominantly for elderly people, widows and children: the “worthy poor”, with most of the monies going to the food and fuel accounts which were covered or heavily subsidized by the Society. There were occasional expenditures for clothing or footwear. The Society was most active during the fall and winter seasons often adjourning for the summer.
The Executive of the Society was composed of many prominent women of the City of Kingston (Richardson, Oberndorffer, Machar, Corbett) who conducted visits to homes and investigated needy cases. While some claim has been made that this Society was the continuance of the Female Benevolent Society which dated back to 1821, there are also other sources which more reliably have it dating to 1867, often being called the Committee of the Poor Relief and closely related with the City Mission Association.