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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.

The Kingston Prize, Canada's Portrait Competition, was founded by Kaaren and Julian Brown, who first settled in Kingston in 1962. The main inspiration for the project was the exciting and controversial Archibald Prize for portraits, held annually in Sydney, Australia. Julian had grown up in Sydney and recalls seeing the Archibald exhibition as a teenager. In the late 1960s, Julian and Kaaren, who had grown up in Illinois, lived in Sydney for several years and were reminded of the huge public interest in the Archibald. After several visits to Australia for family events in the 1990s, they became intrigued with the idea of a prize for contemporary portraits in Canada and began to explore the possibilities. They organized the first competition, held in 2005, and donated the prize money that year. They named the event The Kingston Prize in honour of the city where they had raised their family. Since then they have continued to organize the competitions, which are held every two years.

The Kingston Prize is a competition for recent portraits of Canadians by Canadian artists, and has been held every two years beginning in 2005. The value of the prize was initially $3,000 but with the support of the W. Garfield Weston Foundation it has grown to $20,000 in 2011, making it one of the largest prizes in the visual arts. The Kingston Prize currently offers three cash prizes. The grand prize, The Kingston Prize, is awarded to one winner as selected by the jury, and amounts to $20,000. There are also two Honourable Mention awards, each valued at $1,000. In addition to these three cash prizes, at each location on the exhibition tour, a People's Choice Prize is awarded based on votes by visitors to the exhibition.

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Henry Herbert Mackarsie was born in or around the 1810's or 1820's and died May 12, 1857 at Monte Video, Uruguay on board HMS Indefatigable after having been removed from HMSS Rifleman on May 7th. Mackarsie was a surgeon in the Royal Navy having served on the Steam Sloop Growler under Commander Patbury from April 1847 to March 1848, the HMS Dover in September 1848, the the Alert and the Sea Lark. In 1849 he transferred to HMS Spy off the west coast of Africa and then to HMS Steamer Rifleman in 1855. Mackarsie was married to Elizabeth Cock, daughter of Elizabeth Greig Currie and Robert Cock.

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The Dion dit Dumontier family (originally Guyon dit Dumontier) originated in Perche, France, and landed in Canada in 1620, establishing themselves at Chateau Richer near Quebec City. Louis Dion dit Dumontier established his family on a farm at St. Barthelemi, Quebec.

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