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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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Dr. Brian Osborne is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he has taught since 1967. His research areas include Indigenous history, settlement history, cultural landscapes, and the role of the "culture of communications" in the development of a Canadian sense of place. He was born 13 October 1938 in Treharris, Glamorgan, UK. He obtained his BA (1960) and PhD (1967) from the University of Southampton. He began his professional career at S. Col. State College in 1963, and began his career at Queen's University in 1967. He has published extensively on the Kingston area, his most widely read piece being the volume he wrote with Donald Swainson, Kingston: Building on the Past (1988) which he recently reworked into a new edition, Kingston: Building on the Past for the Future(2011). Other recent volumes are The Rock and the Sword: A History of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Kingston (2004) and (with Shirley Gibson Langille) Landscapes and Inscapes: Drawn to History with Brush of Serendipity.

Professor Osborne has served as a consultant for the National Capital Commission, Heritage Canada, Parks Canada, Canada Post, and the National Film Board. He is Past President of the Ontario Historical Society, Past President of the Kingston Historical Society, and serves on the boards of several heritage organizations.

John Whitney "Jack" Pickersgill, PC CC (June 23, 1905 – November 14, 1997) was a Canadian civil servant and politician. He was born in Ontario, but was raised in Manitoba. He was the Clerk for the Canadian Government's Privy Council in the early 1950s. He was first elected to federal parliament in 1953, representing a Newfoundland electoral district, and serving in prime minister Louis St. Laurent's cabinet. In the mid-1960s, he served again in cabinet, this time under prime minister Lester B. Pearson. He resigned from parliament in 1967 to become the president of the Canadian Transport Commission. He was awarded the highest level of the Order of Canada in 1970. In his later years he wrote books on Canadian history. He died in 1997 in Ottawa.

Sgt. Ernest T. Handyside was born in Ottawa, Ontario on 27 June 1892. A carpenter by trade, Handyside enlisted the army in February 1915. He was killed in action on 29 July 1916.