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The Ku Klux Klan is an organization that expanded operations into Canada, based on the second Ku Klux Klan established in the United States in 1915. It operated as a fraternity, with chapters established in parts of Canada throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. The first registered provincial chapter was registered in Toronto in 1925 by two Americans and a Torontonian.

On 1 December 1924, C. Lewis Fowler of New York City, John H. Hawkins of Newport, Virginia, and Richard L. Cowan of Toronto signed an agreement to establish the Knights of Ku Klux Klan of Canada (Kanada). Funding responsibilities for the provincial organization were split equally among them, and each was a founding Imperial Officer of the Provincial Kloncillum, the governing body of the organization. Fowler travelled to Canada on 1 January 1925 to officially establish the organization. Cowan was the Imperial Wizard (president), Hawkins the Imperial Klaliff (vice-president) and Chief of Staff, and Fowler the Imperial Kligrapp (secretary). They also split the organization's income equally. Fowler left Canada in 1926.

During the mid 1920s, Ku Klux Klan branches were established throughout Canada. These groups observed the same racial ideology but had a narrower focus than those in the United States, primarily to preserve the "Britishness" of Canada with respect to ethnicity and religious affiliation.

The Chancellor Dunning Trust was established in 1946 by an anonymous donor who gave $100,000 to Queen's University to establish a permanent tribute to Chancellor Charles A. Dunning. The income from the Trust is to be used "to promote understanding and appreciation of the supreme importance of the dignity, freedom and responsibility of the individual person in human society."
The Trustees of Queen's University agreed that this goal may best be accomplished by bringing to Queen's distinguished speakers who would give public lectures and who would also meet with classes, groups and individuals at Queen's and in the local community.

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Robert Anthony O'Brien was born on 19 May 1915 to Dora (nee Anthony) & Alva Duggan O'Brien of Winnipeg. The family moved to Moose Jaw around 1918 and lived there until 1926 at which time they moved to Brandon and then returned to Winnipeg in early 1930s. Following high school, O'Brien took a one year secretarial course and worked numerous part-time jobs before becoming an Insurance Investigator for Retail Credit Company in London, Ontario, a position he held for four years. At this time he began taking extra-mural courses in English and Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.

In 1941, he enlisted in the Canadian Army, training at the University of Western Ontario Canadian Officer Training Corp, receiving the rank of 2nd Lieutenant and served as Platoon Officer, Infantry Training Officer, and Administration Officer, as well as being seconded for a period as an Intelligence Officer. He became a records officer at National Defence Headquarters (1943-1944) and then became Army Examiner at #1 District Depot (London, ON) and #12 and #13 CA(B)TC [Canadian Army Basic Training Centre, Chatham and Listowel, ON, also called CI(B)TC] from 1944-1946, attaining rank of Captain 22 May 1945. O'Brien demobilized and became a reservist in February of 1946, serving as the call-out officer at the R.C.E.M.E. School in Barriefield (ca. 1949-until Sept 1950) and a member of the General List at Central Command Personnel Selection Unit at Kingston (Reserve Force) to May 1951 when became a Librarian at the Royal Military College as a civil servant. He remained a reservist until 1953.

While serving in the Army, O'Brien received a Bachelor of Arts degree at University of Western Ontario (1947-1949) and then attended the Library School at McGill University, obtaining a Bachelor of Library Science degree (1949-1951). While working at the RMC Library, he attended Queen’s University, obtaining Honours standing and undertaking graduate work in the English department from 1953-1956. He did not, however, complete his degree.

From 1955 to 14 January 1975 O'Brien worked for the Kingston Whig-Standard as an Associate Editor and then Editor of Editorial page, as well as Editor of the Book page, writing book reviewers as well as art and music reviews for the paper.

After leaving the Whig, O'Brien became a partner, with Neil Patterson, in the advertising firm Frontenac Advertising Limited (1974-before Feb 1978) and then ran his own small copywriting/editing and advertising business, Copy of Distinction (1977-1982).

O'Brien authored numerous articles, particularly book reviews, for numerous publications from 1939 onward, as well as writing radio scripts and other material. He was wrote a series of semi-autobiographical short stories which he intended would be published together but they were ultimately rejected by editors. From 1975 to 1980 he produced a series of radio programmes on Big Band music which aired locally on CKLC-FM and were syndicated. He was also the author of "Frontenac at Cataraqui, 1673-1973" (1975).

He was an amateur musician who built himself a harpsichord. He also played piano and was a collector of Classical and Jazz records.

O'Brien was married in the 1940s to Lois Blanche Siemon. They separated 27 September 1971 and divorced 20 May 1975. They had a son, Courtis Charles O'Brien, who was born on 9 March 1959 and died 13 November 1977.

O'Brien died in Kingston in April 2000.

Kingston This Week is a free, weekly, community- based newspaper founded in the early 1970s as the Kingston News. It was renamed the Shoppers News and then, with an expanded editorial department, became Kingston This Week by 1980.
The newspaper is owned by Sun Media, which is in turn owned by the media conglomerate Quebecor Inc. [Note: the English newspapers owned by Sun Media, including KTW, were sold to Postmedia in October 2014; as of Dec 2014, regulatory approval is still pending].

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The Hurst family came to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from Yorkshire, England in 1905-1906.

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