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Logo, Queen´s
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Laboratories. See groups.
Lake Opinicon. See Biology.
Language Laboratory. This centre provides interactive equipment that allows language students to listen and practise with language tapes and in turn be listened to by a tutor. The lab serves Queen's French, Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, and Russian students. It is run by the Faculty of arts and science and located in kingston hall.
Language and Lingustics, Department of. The scientific study of language, this department offers a Special Field Concentration degree that leads to an Honours B.A. The department is located in Kingston Hall.
LaSalle Building. Completed in 1969, this small building near the intersection of stuart street and university avenue is home to the International Centre for the Advancement of Community-based Rehabilitation and Student Health Services. It is named after Rene-Robert Cavalier, sieur de La Salle, the French explorer who governed the first European settlement in the Kingston area in the 1670s.
Laverty, The Rev Dr A. Marshall (1912-). Known to thousands of students as "The Padre," Laverty served as Chaplain at Queen's for 36 years (1947-1983) and is one of the university's best-known personalities. He was born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto, graduating with honours in 1937. He was ordained as a minister in the United Church the same year and served in parishes in Toronto, Manitoulin Island, and Stirling, before enlisting as a Chaplain in the Canadian army in 1942 and serving with troops in Europe. In 1947, he was appointed Queen's Chaplain. He has acted as a minister, advisor, counsellor, and friend to generations of students and his organizational skills and contacts across Canada have been of immeasurable benefit to the university. Famed for his rhetorical skills and prodigious memory for names, he has also been active on behalf of numerous charitable organizations in the Kingston area, and served on the Frontenac County Board of Education for more than 30 years. He retired from his position as Chaplain in 1983, but has remained extremely active in the university community. He has received numerous awards from Queen's and other Canadian institutions. He was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1985 and received an honorary doctorate from Queen's in 1991.
Law, Faculty of. This is one of the oldest as well as one of the newest faculties at Queen's. It was first founded in 1860, but closed down for financial reasons in 1864. It was revived for another three years in the 1880s, but did not become a permanent fixture at Queen's until 1957, when the Law Society of Upper Canada decentralized the teaching of law in Ontario, allowing lawyers to be taught in institutions other than Osgoode Hall in Toronto. Queen's Principal william mackintosh was a leader of the campaign to convince the Law Society to change its rules, arguing that universities could offer a more varied and wider understanding of law. Vice-Principal (later Principal) james corry was the first acting dean, followed by william lederman, the first permanent Dean. Since its modest beginnings, Queen´s Faculty of Law has become one of the most respected institutions of legal education and scholarship in North America. It has a national reputation in criminal, labour, family, feminist legal studies, public, constitutional and corporate law, which is complemented by strong programs in many other areas. It also offers a Masters of Law (LL.M) program through the School of Graduate Studies and Research. It is located in john a. macdonald hall. See also correctional law project, interdisciplinary legal studies group, legal aid society.
Degrees: Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), Master of Laws (LL.M)
Law Library, William R. Lederman. One of three faculty libraries at Queen's, the William R. Lederman Law Library is highly regarded for its leadership role in developing the electronic law library. The library contains an impressive collection of approximately 155,000 volumes, a CD-ROM collection containing multiple databases and state-of-the-art computer facilities. The collection includes comprehensive coverage and Canadian federal and provincial legislation and case law materials. The library also houses secondary materials with over 800 law journals from Canada, The United States, The United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The library is located in John A. MacDonald Hall.
Legal Aid Society, Queen's Law Students. Largely funded by the provincial government through LegaL Aid Ontario, Queen's Legal Aid operates as a specialized clinic for economically disadvantaged residents of Kingston and Napanee. Law students provide valuable services to individuals with legal problems, including Small Claims Court, Criminal Court matters, Provincial offences, Tenancy disputes, employment matters, and appeals from government benefit proceedings. Two experienced, full-time lawyers supervise the students' work. Approximate 80 students participate in clinic activities each year. Students may register in the clinical litigation practice course, where they receive academic credit for their clinical work. The Legal Aid office is located in John A. MacDonald Hall.
Lederman, William Ralph (1916-1992). Lederman was a noted constitutional scholar and the first dean of Queen's Faculty of law. He was born in Regina and educated at the University of Saskatchewan (LLB 1940) and at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He made a name for himself as one of Canada's leading constitutional lawyers while teaching at Dalhousie University (1949-1958) and was invited to be the first Dean of Queen's new Faculty of Law in 1958. He served in the post until 1968 and continued to teach in the faculty until the 1980s. He was constitutional adviser to then-Ontario Premier John Robarts between 1965 and 1971 and was a mentor to many other constitutional scholars in Canada
Legal Aid Clinic, Queen's Law Students. This service run by Queen's law students provides legal advice and representation to Queen's students and low-income members of the community. The students are authorized by the province to represent people charged with summary criminal offences (those with a maximum possible sentence of a $2,000 fine or six months in prison) and serious provincial offences; to deal with landlord-tenant disputes; and to represent people before administrative tribunals such as the Social Assistance Review Board and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. Two experienced, full-time lawyers supervise the students' work. The Legal Aid office is located in john a. macdonald hall.
Leggett, William Claud (1939-). Leggett is a professor of biology and Queen's 17th principal (1994-). A native of Orangeville, Ontario, he earned a BA from Waterloo University College (now Wilfrid Laurier University) in 1962 and subsequently attended the University of Waterloo (MSc 1965) and McGill University (PhD 1969). He was appointed assistant professor of biology at McGill in 1970 and became a full professor in 1979. He became chair of McGill's biology department in 1982 and dean of science in 1986, serving in the latter role until his appointment as McGill's vice-principal (academic) in 1991. Leggett's main research interest is in the area of fish populations. He is only the second scientist appointed to the post of Queen's Principal; Robert Wallace, a geologist, was Principal from 1936 to 1951. He is also the first Principal since Wallace chosen from outside the ranks of Queen's professors. Leggett is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was awarded an honorary DSc from the University of Waterloo in 1992. He married Claire Holman in 1964 and they have two sons, David Scott and John William.
Leitch, The Rev William (1814-1864). Leitch had a short, but turbulent career as Queen's fifth principal (1859-1864). Born in Bute, Scotland, he was educated at Glasgow University (BA 1837, MA 1838, DD 1860), where he was licensed as a Presbyterian minister. He emigrated to Canada in 1859 to become Queen's Principal. He was the first Principal since thomas liddell in 1841 to arrive with any real enthusiasm for the job (the others had only accepted reluctantly, because no one else would take on the leadership of this small, poor, and fractious college). But he came at an unfortunate time. His first year was dominated by a fierce, though ultimately successful, struggle to pry more funds from the government. Soon afterwards, a long quarrel between former acting Principal james george and Prof George Weir came to a head, resulting in George's resignation and Weir's dismissal. Leitch also found himself unpopular with the faculty after supporting a new set of bylaws they felt gave the board of trustees too much power. But his term had some bright aspects. It was under his leadership that the Kingston observatory – the first in the province – merged with Queen's. And he also presided over the creation of a Faculty of law at Queen's, which unfortunately folded around the time of his death. Leitch's health steadily declined over his years at Queen's, and he died of heart disease in 1864.
Leonard Hall. Built in 1959, this is one of four student residence buildings surrounding leonard field. The others are gordon-brockington house, mcneill house, and morris hall. It is named after the local soldier and engineer Reuben Wells Leonard (1860-1930). He donated the field to Queen's in 1923 in recognition of the services of its graduates and students in the First World War. The building includes Leonard Cafeteria, one of three cafeterias on campus that serve students in residence.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transidentified Association, Queen's. This organization is dedicated to helping gay, lesbian, bisexual and transidentified individuals inside or outside Queen's to live openly and positively with their sexual orientation. It offers regular social drop-ins, an extensive library, and a phone counselling service for lesbians, gays, and their friends and relatives. Various committees in the association speak to secondary and post-secondary classes on homosexuality, lobby politicians and the media, network with other gay and lesbian groups in the province, and attend conferences and health fairs. The association began in the early 1970s as the Queen's Homophile Association; it has existed under its present name since the late 1980s. It is a member of the Queen's Student and Community Services and is located in the Grey House at 51 queen's crescent.
Levana Society. This society, named after the Roman goddess of the rising sun, was the official association of women students at Queen's from its founding in 1888 until 1967, when it merged with the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society. It was founded at a time when women still felt themselves to be on unofficial probation at the university, and provided them with a refuge from the often-critical eyes of male students. Its members held meetings in the Red Room of kingston hall, organized lectures and tea dances, and sponsored debates on topical questions. It promoted the general interests of women at Queen's and occasionally entered the political arena – as it did in 1933, for example, when it formed the victorious Arts-Levana-Theology coalition in the alma mater society election to defeat students who wanted to permit fraternities and sororities at the university. As women gained a more equal footing at the university, the need for an overarching women's society diminished, until its members finally decided to merge with ASUS, to which the majority of its members already belonged, since there were few women outside of the Faculty of arts and science. One of its original traditions, the candlelighting ceremony for first-year students, continues today.
Libraries. The Queen's library system holds almost 7 million items, including 2,200,000 books and 3,600,000 microforms as well as periodicals, maps, air photos, sound recordings, and data files. Collections are housed in Stauffer Library, Douglas Library and three major faculty libraries: William R. Lederman Law Library, Bracken Health Sciences Library and the Education Library. Engineering and Applied Science Library and W. D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library are in Douglas Library. The Art Library is in Ontario Hall and the Teacher Resource Centre is at the west campus. Technical services activities for the libraries are found in Mackintosh-Corry.
Recent trends in library development include an emphasis on electronic collections including online databases and full text subscriptions to electronic journals. The libraries' home page is widely available and campus users can access electronic resources from their desktops. The Libraries provide a variety of instructional support for teaching and research on campus through liaison with individual academic departments. Consortial purchasing has become a dominant theme in collection development as the Libraries join with their provincial and national counterparts to bargain for preferable rates for electronic resources. In recent years the Libraries have formalized a number of partnerships with local agencies: the Teacher Resource Centre provides support for local school boards and Bracken Health Sciences Library is engaged in numerous outreach programs to support health care professionals in eastern Ontario.
Queen's library collection has not always been so well housed. When the university first opened its doors at 67 colborne street, there was no room for the fledgling collection, so it was stored in the tower of st andrew's presbyterian church. (Among these books were the first volumes the university ever owned – seven boxes of Greek, Latin and philosophical treatises donated in 1840 by john mitchell, a judge from the London, Ontario, area and the library's first donor.) Later the growing collection lived in such unlikely places as the attic of the university's Princess Street home, the dining room of summerhill and then, in the 1870s, in an drafty corner of the old medical building, where, according to a contemporary account, it required "the heroism of a northern explorer" to hunt for a book, because of the cold. In these early days there was no real catalogue and the library was only open for about an hour a day. After 1880, now swollen to over 11,000 volumes, the library found an attractive home in the rounded west end of the "Old Arts" building (now theological hall), where floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, accessible by ladders, lined the curving walls. In 1895, the professor in charge of the library, adam shortt, visited Harvard University to study its library and then bought a typewriter, filing case, and 84,000 cards, and singlehandedly produced Queen's first card catalogue. Around the turn of the century the university hired its first full-time librarian, Lois Saunders, previously Shortt's assistant. The library moved from the Old Arts Building after the opening of Douglas Library in 1923. Before the opening of Stauffer Library in 1994 and the re-opening of Douglas Library in 1997, collections were held in 20 separate libraries around campus: douglas library, which served the social sciences and humanities and housed the library administrative offices; three major faculty libraries (the law library, the education library, and bracken library, the university's health sciences library) and 16 departmental libraries. These were the Art History Library, the Biology Library, the Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport Library, the Chemical Engineering Library, the Chemistry Library, the Civil Engineering Library, the Documents Library, the Geology Library, the John Reid Bain Library (Electrical Engineering), the Map and Air Photo Library, the Math-Stats Library, the May Ball Library (Industrial Relations), the Mechanical Engineering Library, the Music Library, the Physics Library, and the Psychology Library. Libraries report to the Vice-Principal (Academic). Please see entries on Stauffer Library, Douglas Library.
Liddell, The Rev Thomas (1800-1880). Liddell was Queen's founding Principal (1841-1846). Born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, he was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, receiving a Doctorate of Divinity from the latter in 1841. He was serving as a minister in Edinburgh in 1841 when he was selected as Queen's first Principal by the colonial committee of the Church of Scotland. He arrived in Kingston in December of that year with Queen's founding document, the royal charter, in hand. For most of his five years at Queen's he was an effective and enthusiastic leader. He oversaw the opening of classes in March of 1842, set sound academic standards for the university, and worked tirelessly to shore up its fragile finances. But he began to lose heart when Queen's lost most of its theological students after a schism in the Church of Scotland in 1843 (see presbyterian church schism). He now saw no other options but to move Queen's to Toronto and make it part of King's College (later the University of Toronto), or to turn Queen's into a theological college only; after the board of trustees vetoed these plans, he resigned, in 1846. He then returned to the life of a minister in Scotland, where he remained until his death. A fine portrait of Liddell by the renowned Victorian painter Charles Grant hangs at the donald gordon centre.
Life Sciences, Department of.This multidisciplinary program was started in 1971. Seven Basic Science departments in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Community Health and Epidemiology, Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Pathology and Physiology, provide a majority of the core and option courses. The Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics, Psychology and many others in the Faculty of Arts and Science give strong support to the program. The objective of the program is to provide students with sufficient breadth and depth in basic medical sciences to prepare for graduate work and a career in research in one or more of the participating disciplines or in health related industry. Considerable emphasis is placed on laboratory training and hands-on research experience in the upper year courses. While there may be a perception that this program provides a preferred route to medical schools, this is not the objective of the program. However, students can include in their curriculum courses to qualify for admission to a variety of professional and graduate programs. A majority of the graduates choose careers in medicine, allied health science disciplines, and research and graduate studies in basic medical sciences. Others pursue careers in health administration, public policy, business administration, law and in the pharmaceutical and life science industry. The four-year SSP (subject of specialization) honours program has two streams, research and comprehensive. Two specialized collaborative four-year programs started in 2000 lead to a general bachelor of science degree in life sciences from Queen's and a diploma either in Respiratory Therapy from the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences or in X-Ray Technology from the Eastern Ontario School of X-Ray Technology, Kingston. Life Science is one of the largest undergraduate science programs at Queen's. The Life Science office is located on the second floor in Botterell Hall, within the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Limestone. Most buildings at Queen's, including all constructed before the 1960s, are faced with limestone. Two kinds of limestone have been used at the university: Kingston limestone, quarried locally, and Queenston limestone, quarried in the Niagara peninsula. Kingston limestone is pale grey and was used for all major buildings before the 1930s. With the decline of local quarries in the late 1930s, Queen's turned to Queenston limestone, which has a slightly browner shade. The first building faced with Queenston limestone was craine hall, completed in 1938. A sure way of dating the university's stone buildings is to note the colour of the stone. Since the early 1960s many new buildings have been faced with concrete, the first of them being john watson hall, completed in 1967.
Litchfield, John Palmer (1808-1868). Litchfield is one of the most intriguing figures in Queen's early history. He was an amiable and intelligent con-man who passed himself off on three continents as a medical expert, and ended his career as a professor at Queen's and a superintendent of the asylum which was the precursor of Kingston Psychiatric Hospital. The son of a poor surgeon in England, he worked as a journalist before emigrating to Australia in 1839. Despite his lack of medical credentials, he set himself up as a physician and soon was appointed an inspector of hospitals. However, his lack of training came to light and he fled the post to start a private lunatic asylum, an undertaking which then required no qualifications. This venture ended in bankruptcy and a brief sojourn in debtor's prison, after which he returned briefly to England to work in an asylum there. He emigrated to Boston in 1853 and then set his sights on Canada, where he edited a small Montreal newspaper. He gained the confidence of the rising Attorney-General of Canada West, john a. macdonald, who helped him in 1855 obtain the post of superintendent of Kingston's Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Queen's medical school was starting at the same time and he also obtained for himself the position of Professor of Midwifery and State and Forensic Medicine. But Queen's officials soon discovered his lack of qualifications – he finally conceded under questioning that he had never even attended a birth – and forced him from the post in 1857. However, he retained charge of the asylum and even managed to recover the position of Professor of State and Forensic Medicine after obtaining an MD from Queen's in 1862.
Logo, Queen's. The official Logo of Queen´s University is composed of the University´s Coat of Arms and the Queen´s "namesake." Its specific guidelines are contained in the Queen´s Visual Identity Standards, released in June 2000 (see entry). This logo replaces the old "Q-Shield" logo, designed by former Graphic Design Director Peter Dorn in 1972. Please see Queen´s Visual Identity.
Louise D. Acton Building. Constructed in 1963, this building houses Queen's School of rehabilitation therapy. The building was acquired from Kingston General Hospital in 1989. It is named after a former director of the hospital's School of Nursing and is located on george street just south of botterell hall.
Lower, Arthur Reginald Marsden (1889-1988). Lower was one of Canada's foremost historians and one of the most formidable personalities at Queen's in the post-war years. He was born in Barrie, Ontario, and educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard. He taught Canadian history at Wesley College, Winnipeg from 1926 to 1947, and was Douglas Professor of Canadian History at Queen's from 1947 to 1959. He wrote 14 important books about Canada's past. His first books detailed the role of the forest and the timber industry in Canadian development. His best-known work, Colony to Nation (1946), sought a basis for national community that would unite French and English Canadians. He won the Governor General's award for history in 1946 and 1954 and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1968. He was a strong and opinionated man, well known across Canada for his commentaries on current affairs as well as history. His combative personality often put him at odds with Queen's administration. One of his most notable battles was against the planned construction of a physics building on lower campus (named after its location, not himself) in the 1960s. His tireless work lobbying alumni and trustees was an important factor in convincing Queen's officials to place the building, stirling hall, on its present site. He received an honorary degree from Queen's in 1972 and lived and wrote in Kingston until his death in 1988.
Lower Campus. This is the largest remaining green space on Queen's main campus. It runs from university avenue to arch street south of kingston hall, theological hall, and summerhill. It consists of a full-sized playing field, known as kingston field; two public tennis courts; an area of small, grassy hills; and founder's avenue, the tree-lined road that curves from stuart street up to Theological Hall. Near Summerhill there is a stone and wrought-iron gate leading into the area, donated by the Arts class of 1910. Until the late 1960s, this gate was located near the west end of Kingston Hall. Just west of the tennis courts is a large steel sculpture shaped like a picture frame. Called "Ground Outline," it was created by the Peterborough artist Peter Kolisnyk in 1978 and purchased by Queen's in 1981. Lower Campus was the centre of a bitter dispute in the 1960s, when Queen's trustees decided to place a new physics building on Kingston Field. Harsh condemnations of the decision by alumni, students, staff, and faculty forced the trustees to reconsider and place the building, stirling hall, on queen's crescent. See also arthur lower.
Lower University Avenue. This short street runs from stuart street to King Street East at the western edge of kingston general hospital. It is not strictly an extension of university avenue; its Stuart Street end is about 50 metres west of the bottom of University Ave.