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Macdonald, Sir John A.
Macdonald Hall
Machar, Anges Maule
Machar, The Rev John
Mackenzie Health Research Services Group
Mackerras, The Rev John Hugh
MacKinnon, Lilian Vaux
Mackintosh, William Archibald
Mackintosh-Corry Hall
Mail
Main Campus
Marketing and Communications, Department of
Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Department of
Mathematics and Statistics, Department of
Mature Student Regulation
Mature Students´ Association
MBA Students´ Society
McArthur College
McGill-Queen´s Press
McLaughlin, Robert Samuel
McLaughlin Hall
McNeill, Caroline Emmy Libby
McNeill, William Everett
McNeill House
Mechanical Engineering, Department of
Mechanical Laboratory
Media IV
Medical Art and Photography
Medical House
Medical Quadrangle
Medicine, Department of
Medicine at Queen´s, 1854-1920: A Peculiarly Happy Relationship
Meisel, John
Memorial Room
Michener, The Rt Hon Daniel Roland
Michener Visitorship
Microbiology and Immunology, Department of
Miller Hall
Miller Museum of Geology and Mineralogy
Mining and Agriculture, Ontario School of
Mining Engineering, Department of
Miriam of Queen´s
Mitchell, James
Morgan Memorial Chapel
Morris, William
Morris Hall
Mottoes
Music, School of
Macdonald, Sir John A. (1815-1891). Canada's founding Prime Minister also played a supporting role in the founding of Queen's. He was born in Scotland and emigrated with his family to Canada in 1820. He was brought up in and around Kingston and trained as a lawyer in the city. It was as a 24-year-old lawyer in 1839 that he attended a meeting at st andrew's presbyterian church on the subject of "the proposed college to be erected in this town." He moved or seconded several motions in favour of establishing Queen's, but, by his own admission, did not cut much of a figure at the meeting. He remembered the occasion in a speech at Queen's 50th anniversary in 1889: "I was modest then [laughter], modest as those young friends of mine in the gallery [a group of students], and when I arose to move the resolution that was placed in my hands, and although I had prepared an eloquent oration, I was in such a mortal fright that I did not say a single word." He handed the resolution to the chairman and sat down. MacDonald remained a good friend of the university throughout his career as Prime Minister, and his sister, Louisa, was married to one of Queen's best-known teachers, James Williamson. See also Founders' Row.
Macdonald Hall. See John A. MacDonald Hall.
Machar, Agnes Maule. See John Anderson and the Rev John Machar.
Machar, The Rev John (1796-1893). Machar was Queen's second principal and the leader of Kingston's Presbyterian community in the mid-19th century. He was born in Forfarshire, Scotland and educated at King's College, Aberdeen (MA 1813) and Edinburgh University, where he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. He emigrated to Canada in 1827 to become minister of St. Andrew's church in Kingston, the city's main Presbyterian church and the site where Queen's board of trustees held their first meetings. He was a member of the university's first Board and was appointed Principal when the Rev Thomas Liddell resigned in 1846. He was a stern moralist and sought to instil in students the ideals of hard work and a strict conscience. His convocation speeches were known for their harsh warnings about the evils of "idleness and folly." He was distrustful of too much lay influence at Queen's and stressed its role as a training college for ministers. At the end of his term he presided over Queen's move to Summerhill, the old limestone residence that still stands at the heart of the campus. He resigned in 1853 to devote more time to St Andrew's, but remained active in the Queen's community until his death. He was the father of the poet, novelist, and social reformer Agnes Maule Machar, who wrote a short biography of Queen's first janitor, John Anderson.
Mackenzie Health Research Services Group. This multi-disciplinary research group in the Department of community health and epidemiology uses new computerized systems that analyze hospitals and the mix of cases they treat for a variety of purposes. These include developing new hospital funding strategies, improving the efficiency of hospitals, and developing means of monitoring the quality of patient care in hospitals. The group is also working to develop explicit criteria for appropriate hospital admission, surgical intervention, and process of care for patients with certain conditions. The group does contract work for outside agencies as well as academic research. Members come from a wide variety of medical and basic science fields and from the Departments of Economics and Psychology. The group was established in 1985 and reports to the head of the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology.
Mackerras, The Rev John Hugh (1832-1880). A professor of classics at Queen's in the 19th century, Mackerras was known to contemporaries as "The Martyr of Queen's" for his self-sacrifice while fundraising for the university. He was born in Scotland, raised in Lyn, Ontario, and educated at Queen's (BA 1850, MA 1852). He was appointed professor of classics at the university in 1864. Several years later, in 1867 and 1868, Queen's suffered two potentially disastrous financial blows, when the province withdrew its funding from Queen's and the commercial bank collapsed, taking two-thirds of the university's endowment with it. In 1868 and 1869, Principal william snodgrass, Mackerras, and a few other determined officials spent almost a year canvassing through the cities, towns, and backwoods farms of Ontario and Quebec. The work saved Queen's, but it permanently destroyed Mackerras' health. He taught at Queen's in constant sickness for another ten years, barely able to climb the stairs to his classes, and died from his illness in 1880.
MacKinnon, Lilian Vaux (1879-1975). MacKinnon was the author of one of the most fascinating accounts ever written of Queen's past: a wistful, semi-autobiographical novel, called Miriam of Queen's, about a young woman's adventures at the University at the turn of the century. Born Lilian Vaux in Brockville, she was a student at Queen's from 1898 until 1902. She was a top student, editor of the "Ladies' Department" of the Queen's Journal, a founding member of Queen's Dramatic Club, and graduated with the University's gold medal in English. She married a fellow Queen's graduate, Murdoch Archibald MacKinnon after graduation, and lived in various cities across Canada, where he served as a Presbyterian minister. Miriam of Queen's, published in 1921, was her first novel and the only one she ever published. She apparently quit writing until shortly before her husband's death in 1954, when she began to submit reminiscences about her past to small newspapers and to the alumni review and the queen's quarterly. The undated manuscript of her unpublished novel, Hard by St Lawrence a romance set near Brockville is held with some of her other papers at Queen's archives. MacKinnon was 96 and Queen's oldest living woman graduate when she died in 1975.
Mackintosh, William Archibald (1895-1970). Mackintosh, who served as Queen's 12th principal from 1951 to 1961, was a distinguished economist and public servant who was also Queen's first truly "homegrown" leader. He was the first Principal chosen from the ranks of Queen's own faculty (previous principals had all been recruited from the outside); and he was also the first Queen's graduate to reach the Principal's office. He was born in Madoc, Ontario and educated at Queen's (MA 1916) and Harvard University (PhD 1922). At Queen's he was president of his year and the winner of gold medals in history and political and economic science. A specialist in labour issues, he taught at Brandon College, Manitoba (1917-1919), and joined Queen's faculty in 1922. When the Second World War began in 1939, he was recruited to Ottawa to apply his administrative and economic talents to the war effort. He first served as special assistant to the Deputy Minister of Finance; later, from 1944 to 1946, he served as director of research in the Department of Reconstruction, and he also served as Acting Deputy Minister of Finance in 1945. In that year, as well, he was the principal author of the White Paper on Employment and Income, which mapped out Canada's postwar economic strategy.
He returned to Queen's in 1946, where he served as Dean of Arts and Science for five years before succeeding Robert Wallace as Principal. His term coincided with a period of unprecedented growth for Queen's, as governments in the booming postwar economy poured money into higher education. Under his leadership, Queen's built five new residences, founded the Faculty of Law and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, built Richardson Hall to house administrative offices, and constructed dunning hall for the School of business. He retired as Principal in 1961, but retained the post of Vice-Chancellor until 1965. He was married to Jean Isobel (Easton) Mackintosh and had one child, Alison (Mackintosh) Morgan. His personal papers are held at Queen's Archives. See also Ottawa and Queen's.
Mackintosh-Corry Hall. Completed in 1973, "Mac-Corry" houses the Departments of political studies, sociology, and geography, the institute for women's studies, development studies, part of the School of business and the Department of Economics, and numerous administrative offices, including those for the Faculty of Arts and Science. It also has numerous classrooms, study rooms, and a large cafeteria. The wide corridor that runs the length of the building is known as Student Street. It is named after William Mackintosh, Queen's Principal from 1951 to 1961, and James Alexander Corry, Principal from 1961 to 1968.
Mail. See postal services.
Main Campus. Queen's main campus is located on roughly 100 acres of land on the southwestern edge of downtown Kingston. Its approximate boundaries are King Street in the south, Earl Street in the north, Collingwood Street in the west, and Barrie Street in the east. However, the campus is not a neat and tidy site. University buildings, especially around the edges of the campus, are interspersed with private homes, shops, and hospital buildings.
This mixture is an indication of the piecemeal way in which the campus has developed. Queen's first trustees had intended to build the university on a self-contained, 50-acre site west of today's campus, in the area of College Street. But they could not afford to build on that original property, and sold it piece by piece. They turned to the present site in 1853, when they purchased Summerhill and its small holding of seven acres, then on the very edge of the city. Until the 1890s all new buildings were constructed in the immediate area of Summerhill. But by the early 1900s the campus had spread north to Union Street and west to University Avenue. By this time, the area was surrounded by blocks of private housing and, to expand, Queen's had to buy developed land and either renovate, demolish, or move the houses that were already there. Expansion has generally followed this pattern ever since – often to the displeasure of local residents. In the 1920s, Queen's expanded to the north side of Union Street and the west side of University Avenue, buying the Students' Memorial Union and building ban righ hall and richardson stadium. But it was not until the 1950s that development in these areas really took off. Since then, more than 20 buildings have been constructed west of University Avenue or north of Union Street.
Today, University Avenue – once Queen's western boundary – is the university's central thoroughfare. Most of the original seven-acre holding has become crowded with buildings, but the section in front of Kingston and Theological Halls, known as lower campus, has been spared as green space, thanks in part to fierce protests about its proposed development in the 1960s. The pace of growth has slowed since the 1960s, as the purchase of west campus relieved pressures for expansion. But there have been important developments, especially in the northwest part of the Main Campus. Richardson Stadium, for example, was torn down in 1971 and replaced by a new stadium on West Campus. And in recent years there have been important additions, including the purchase of Victoria School and the construction of the policies studies building and the stauffer library, all on Union Street west of University Avenue. Main Campus will also see the construction of several new projects over the next few years, including the construction of Chernoff Hall, Goodes Hall and the Integrated Learning Centre.
Marketing and Communications, Department of. Located in Fleming Hall, has a mandate of supporting the university in building and enhancing its image and reputation in support of its vision. It assumes responsibility for the overall stewardship for the Queen's "brand", develops targeted marketing communications for campus stakeholders, develops strategic relations with the media to serve the advancement of the university, and serves as the main source of internal university communications (publishes the Queen's Gazette and Queen's Today).
Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Department of. The study of metallurgy began at Queen's when the university-affiliated ontario school of mining and agriculture was established in Kingston in 1893. The first professor of the discipline was William Nicol, after whom the department's present building, nicol hall, is named. The discipline was taught as part of a combined Mining and Metallurgy program until 1914, when the separate programs of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering were established. These existed until 1935 when the Department of Metallurgical Engineering was founded as a separate unit in the Faculty of applied science. The department grew steadily in subsequent decades in response to increased demand from manufacturing industries and processors of primary metals for graduates knowledgeable in metallurgy. Since the 1960s, in particular, there has been marked growth in the number of faculty and in the amount and sophistication of research and equipment. The department was originally concerned almost exclusively with studying the production and use of metals and metal alloys. Although this remains an important part of the department's work, research and teaching since the early 1970s have increasingly been concerned with a variety of other materials, including ceramics, polymers, and composite materials. Reflecting this trend, the department was renamed Materials and Metallurgical Engineering in 1990, which expanded into Jackson Hall in 1993 with the establishment of a materials and metallurgy research laboratory. This department was phased out of the Faculty of Applied Science as an Honours degree in 2001, and is now offered as a Materials Option. Please see Faculty of Applied Science.
Mathematics and Statistics, Department of. Courses in mathematics have been offered at Queen's since the university held its first classes in March of 1842. The first specialist in the subject was the Rev james williamson (Sir john a. macdonald's brother-in-law), who taught at Queen's from the fall of 1842 until his death in 1895. nathan dupuis, a driving force behind the establishment of the Faculty of applied science at Queen's and designer of the original grant hall tower clock, led the department from 1880 to 1911. The greatest period of expansion in the department's history was under the headship of A. John Coleman (1960-1980), when the number of faculty increased from 14 to 48. Today, there are slightly more than 40 full-time faculty in the department. Since 1969, the department has been located in jeffery hall, named after the former department head Ralph Jeffery (1943-1960). In 1979, reflecting changes in the curriculum, the Department of Mathematics was renamed the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. It currently offers a wide range of courses in both pure and applied mathematics and statistics, and also offers students in the Faculty of applied science the only undergraduate degree program in mathematics and engineering in Canada. The department is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science.
Mature Student Regulation. Since the early 1970s, the Faculty of Arts and Science has allowed students over the age of 21 who do not have the regular qualifications for admission to a degree program to take a qualifying course. If they get more than 60 per cent in the course they can continue to work toward a degree part-time. After three courses they are eligible to apply to full-time studies, acceptance being contingent on satisfactory grades.
Mature Students' Association. This association, founded in 1985, provided a variety of services for students who are starting or returning to university after time away from school. Its goal was to help these students adjust to, and become fully involved in, university life. Its activities included organizing an orientation program for mature students during the first week of the academic year and sponsoring social events during the year to help older students overcome the sense of isolation that many feel. In 1997, the MSA was re-named The Association of Continuing Studies Students (ACCESS). This organization was dissolved in 1998.
MBA Students' Society. See faculty societies.
McArthur College. See Faculty of Education and Duncan McArthur Hall.
McGill-Queen's Press. This is the second largest academic press in Canada after the University of Toronto Press. It was founded as McGill University Press in 1960 as the only English-language scholarly press east of Toronto. In 1969, Queen's accepted an invitation to become a partner and share costs. The press was on the verge of financial collapse in 1980, but survived by moving faculty members into editorial positions and temporarily reducing its size. It has increased its output since then from about half a dozen new titles a year to more than 70. Most of the Press's business arrangements are handled at McGill, but editorial decisions are made jointly at Queen's and McGill. The Press maintains its Kingston office at 144 Barrie Street.
McLaughlin, Robert Samuel (1871-1972). McLaughlin was the founder of General Motors of Canada and one of Queen's most generous benefactors. He was born in Eniskillen, Ontario and as a young man entered his father's carriage-manufacturing business. In 1892, he and his brother, George, entered into partnership with their father in the McLaughlin Carriage Works, Oshawa. In 1908, the firm began to make car bodies for the Buick Motor Co in Michigan and, in 1915, started to build Chevrolets as well. The business was purchased by General Motors in 1918 and incorporated as General Motors of Canada, with McLaughlin as president. He remained in the post until 1942, after which he served as chairman of the board (1942-1967). He was a friend of Principal robert wallace and became one of Queen's most generous benefactors, donating about $4.5 million to the university. He donated the funds for mclaughlin hall, gave a substantial contribution to the rebuilding of the Students' Union (the john deutsch university centre) in 1947, and provided numerous smaller gifts, including the library and personal papers of Governor General John Buchan. His wife, Adelaide, donated the funds for the construction of adelaide hall. He also donated the funds for the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto.
McLaughlin Hall. Built in 1948, this hall houses the Department of Mechanical Engineering. It is named after robert samuel mclaughlin, president of General Motors of Canada and one of Queen's most generous benefactors. Additions and improvements in 1960 and 1978 were also supported by McLaughlin and the McLaughlin Foundation.
McNeill, Caroline Emmy Libby (1879-1948). McNeill was Queen's First dean of women. Born in the United States, she came to Queen's in 1909 when her husband, william mcneill, was appointed Professor of English. The couple had met when he was teaching at Bates College, Maine. She was appointed Advisor of Women in 1911 and, in 1918, became Queen's first Dean of Women. She served in the position until 1925 and subsequently lectured in both Spanish and Italian at the university. She died in 1948.
McNeill, William Everett (1876-1959). When his career as a professor of English received a check, McNeill switched streams to become one of the most formidable financial administrators the university has ever had. Born at Lower Montague, Prince Edward Island, McNeill was educated at Acadia University and Harvard, where he earned a PhD in English in 1909. He joined Queen's English department the same year and quickly gained a reputation as a precise scholar. He was appointed department head in 1920, but only held the position for three weeks. Ex-Principal Daniel Gordon convinced the board of trustees that McNeill was a dull and uninspiring teacher and persuaded them to move him to the recently vacated position of registrar and Treasurer.
It was a humiliating blow for McNeill, who never wanted to be anything but a scholar, but he buried his humiliation in work and soon demonstrated an unusual talent for administration and financial management. He proved himself so indispensable to the university that he was appointed Vice-Principal in 1930, and between 1930 and 1936, during the principalship of William Hamilton Fyfe, McNeill virtually ran the university because Fyfe disliked administrative duties. With the onset of the Depression, McNeill brought his considerable talents as a penny-pincher to bear on the university. He was known to count packets of 1000 envelopes to check if they were all there and to turn down a professor's request for a pencil sharpener because there was already one on another floor in the same building. He took great pride in presenting a balanced budget year after year without reducing salaries. It was largely to his credit that Queen's survived the Depression without drastic cutbacks, though many complained that he held the financial reins too tightly. He remained Vice-Principal and a powerful figure at Queen's until his retirement in 1947, after which he served on the Board of Trustees. He willed his house at 32 Queen's Crescent to the university and it now serves as the ban righ centre. McNeill's wife, Caroline McNeill, was Queen's first Dean of Women and later a professor of Spanish and Italian.
McNeill House. Completed in 1955, this undergraduate residence for female students is one of four residence buildings surrounding leonard field. The others are morris hall, leonard hall, and gordon-brockington house. McNeill House was originally intended to house men only, but it became all-female in 1988, when Victoria Hall became co-ed. McNeill House is named after William Everett McNeill, an English professor and a colourful and influential former Vice-Principal of the university (1930-1947).
Mechanical Engineering, Department of. Queen's has offered a four-year BSc program in mechanical engineering since 1902. Most of the department's early work involved thermodynamics and machine design, and was often connected with the design and construction of engines and power plants. Today, research and teaching is concentrated in four main areas: design for manufacture, transportation, power generation and use, and clinical mechanics. The accelerating pace of development in the sciences that underlie mechanical engineering has led to a rapidly changing curriculum, but the general focus is on devising scientific approaches to the solution of engineering problems. Throughout its history, the department has also tried to maintain a curriculum sensitive to the needs of graduates as they enter the engineering profession. To this end, professors have always maintained close links with industry, often through industrial work during vacations or sabbaticals. The department, which has about 30 full-time faculty, is located in mclaughlin hall. The department's Mechanical Design Division, previously the separate Department of Engineering Drawing until merging with Mechanical Engineering in 1985, is located in jackson hall. The department is part of the Faculty of applied science. See also Artificial Intelligence Unit, Clinical Mechanics Group, Ergonomics Research Group.
Mechanical Laboratory. Built in 1896 and located on the current site of the Frost Wing of gordon hall, the Mechanical Laboratory was a large wood-frame building used by engineering students as a machine shop. When it first opened it also held a primitive gymnasium, which created a minor campus squabble. Right after the building was finished, students became disgruntled at the small space allotted for the gym by engineering professor Nathan Dupuis. In revenge, they poked fun at the overly dignified name he had given the building by painting the words "Tool House" in huge letters across one wall. Dupuis took this as a personal insult and threatened to resign if the culprits did not step forth. They did not, and Dupuis eventually let the matter drop. The name, however, stuck, and the building was commonly known as the Tool House or the Tool Shed until it was demolished in 1961 to make way for the building of the Frost Wing.
Media IV. This lab in the Department of Geography offered a wide range of professional services in the photographic and audio-visual fields for teaching, display, publication, research, and archival purposes. It produced, among other things, photographs, slides, overhead transparencies, and photomechanical transfers (PMT). It also prepares, edits, and/or duplicates videotapes. It offered specialized services for the duplication of rare and old photographs and documents, with image enhancing, and produces "off screen" slides of computer images.. The name "Media IV," chosen when the lab expanded in the early 1970s, was picked because there were already three major media services at Queen's (queen's television, graphic design, and visual arts). It was closed in 1997.
Medical Art and Photography. This unit in the Faculty of health sciences offers a variety of media services to instructional and research programs at Queen's. Photography services include same day colour slide processing (E-6 film only), custom black and white printing, and digital imaging from computer disk. Art services include production of charts, drawings, posters, and medical illustrations. It is staffed with professional artists and photographers who work out of studios in Etherington Hall.
Medical House. See fraternities and sororities.
Medical Quadrangle. This is the small tree-shaded square located behind Summerhill. It is so named because the other three buildings surrounding the square – Kathleen Ryan Hall, the Craine Building, and the Old Medical Building – once belonged to the Faculty of Medicine.
Medicine, Department of. The largest Department in the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Department of Medicine teaches, provides clinical care, and conducts research in a wide variety of fields in the general area of Internal Medicine. It has 13 divisions: Allergy, Cardiology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, General Internal Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology, Neurology, Palliative Care, Respirology, and Rheumatology. The Department traces its origins to the beginning of the Faculty of Medicine in 1855, when Dr. James Sampson was appointed the first Professor of Clinical Medicine and Surgery. The Department grew rapidly in the first half of this century under the leadership of Dr. Walter Connell and his son, Ford Connell, who succeeded him as Department Head. Today, it has about 70 full-time faculty, most of whom are cross-appointed with other medical departments. It is one of the departments at the heart of the medical curriculum, and offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs and continuing medical education for practising doctors. Members of the department provide a wide range of general and specialized clinical care in teaching hospitals affiliated with the university. A number of external agencies provide extensive funding for initiatives ranging from basic molecular research to various applied health-care projects. The Department's main offices are located in Etherington Hall.
Medicine at Queen's, 1854-1920: A Peculiarly Happy Relationship. This book by Queen's anatomy professor Anthony Travill traces the history of Queen's Faculty of medicine from its earliest roots in pre-Confederation Canada to the start of the modern era. He describes how the faculty survived its tenuous early years only to split with Queen's in 1866 to form the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston. He outlines how it returned, under the guidance of Principal george monro grant, to face the challenges of the new century and the First World War. He vividly describes Queen's short-lived attempt at medical co-education (1883-1894) (see women medical students), as well as the day-to-day life of a medical school – the lives of its students and the vicissitudes of internecine faculty squabbles, all within the context of the times. The book was published in 1988 by Queen's University and the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine.
Meisel, John (1923-). One of Canada's most-respected political scientists, Meisel served as Chair of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission from 1980 to 1983. He was born of Czech origin in Vienna and came to Canada in 1942. He attended the Universities of Toronto and London and has taught political studies at Queen's since 1949. He pioneered the study of election behaviour in Canada and has devoted a large part of his career to bridging the gap between English and French Canada. During his tenure as head of the CRTC from 1980 to 1983, he presided over the introduction of pay-TV to Canada. He is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Science Emeritus and past President of the Royal Society of Canada. He has also served as Chair on the Editorial Board of the Queen's Quarterly and is the writer and publisher of over 100 articles, monographs and books. See also Ottawa and Queen's.
Memorial Room. This small ornate room in the John Deutsch University Centre commemorates the 351 Queen's students and alumni who died in the First and Second World Wars. It features two large bronze plaques inscribed with the names of those who died, a stone altar, stained glass windows, and seven oil paintings of men and women from each branch of the Canadian forces, painted by Toronto artist Marion Long. A large quotation from Wordsworth runs around the perimeter of the room: "We must be free or die who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spake/The faith and morals hold which Milton held." The quotation and the inscriptions on the altar were chosen by Queen's former Vice-Principal William McNeill.
Michener, The Rt Hon Daniel Roland (1900-1991). Michener moved from one ceremonial office to another: he served as Canada's Governor General from 1969 to 1974, and then as Queen's chancellor from 1974 to 1980. He was born in Lacombe, Alberta and educated at the University of Alberta (BA 1920) and Oxford University, which he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. He began the practise of law in Toronto in 1924 and was a founder of the prominent law firm Lang, Michener. He was a Conservative member of the Ontario legislature (1945-1948) and a cabinet minister (1946-1948). He served as an MP for St Paul's Toronto (1953-1962) and was speaker of the House of Commons (1957-1962). He was a civilized and witty speaker, but clashed frequently with his Conservative colleague, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Diefenbaker's Liberal successor, Lester Pearson, appointed Michener high commissioner to India in 1964, where he served until Pearson appointed him Governor General in 1967. He and his wife, Norah, democratized the office (curtailing the curtsey, for example) and were among the busiest and most creative of vice-regal couples. Among his innovations were frequent state visits abroad, periodic meetings with provincial lieutenant-governors, and the establishment of an Honours Secretariat (the Order of Canada having been instituted in 1967) at Rideau Hall. He was selected Queen's Chancellor when his term as Governor General ended in 1974. He was a good friend of the university and visited Queen's regularly, even after his retirement in 1980, to attend lectures of the Michener Visitorship, which was established in his honour to bring distinguished French Canadians to Queen's for lectures and discussions.
Microbiology and Immunology, Department of. This department in the Faculty of medicine was founded in 1895, when Dr Walter connell became Queen's first head of pathology and Bacteriology. In 1919 Bacteriology and Pathology became separate departments, with Dr Guilford Reed becoming the first head of Bacteriology. This department was renamed Microbiology and Immunology in the late 1960s. Teaching and research in the department originally focused on infectious diseases and bacteriology, and during the Second World War some members of the department worked on top-secret research in biological warfare for the Canadian government. Since the war, immunology and virology (the study of viruses) have become increasingly important. The department has been closely associated with the provincial Public Health Laboratory in Kingston since the latter was founded in 1907 with Dr Connell as regional bacteriologist and pathologist. The department was located in the New Medical Building (now kathleen ryan hall) from 1908 to 1979, when it moved to botterell hall. The department has about 20 full-time faculty. See also Cancer Research Laboratories.
Miller Hall. Built in 1931 and substantially enlarged in 1973, Miller Hall contains the Department of geological sciences. It is named after Willet Green Miller, a professor of geology and petrology at Queen's and Ontario's chief geologist (1902-1925). It is located on union street opposite the foot of Division Street. The building, constructed in the Collegiate Gothic style, also contains the miller museum of geology. The Bruce Wing, built in 1973, is attached to the southwest corner of Miller Hall and runs south along campus road. It is named after Everend Lester (Louis) Bruce, a professor of geology at Queen's (1914-1949) and head of the department (1944-1949). The land occupied by Bruce Wing was the location of Queen's first skating rink, which burned down in the 1920s. The parking lot behind Miller Hall and part of the land occupied by Humphrey Hall held the Jock Harty Arena from 1922 to 1958.
Miller Museum of Geology and Mineralogy. The Miller Museum displays an extensive collection of minerals from around the world and includes exhibits on the geology and fossils of the Kingston area and on the dinosaurs of Alberta. A working seismograph in the museum detects shockwaves from earthquakes around the world. The museum is located on the main floor of miller hall and opened in 1931, the same year as the building was completed. It is open to the public Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and offers guided tours to school children and other groups on request. There is no admission charge.
Mining and Agriculture, Ontario School of. See ontario school of mining and agriculture.
Mining Engineering, Department of. This department was founded in 1893 as a central part of the Queen's-affiliated ontario school of mining and agriculture. Classes began on 9 October, 1893 in carruthers hall, which was leased from the university. It was thus the first active department in what evolved into the Faculty of applied science. The department has always held a significant position in the Canadian mineral industry and is currently the largest mining engineering school in Canada. Mining graduates have traditionally been known as the most general of engineers and, reflecting this, the department maintains close research and teaching ties with other engineering departments – especially Geological Engineering. The department has about 15 full-time faculty, who teach a blend of current technology and science relevant to mining and also the design and management of mines. Whenever possible, actual industrial problems are used as examples and as the basis for design assignments and theses – a fact which has helped the department maintain its close relationship with the mineral industry. The department is located in Goodwin Hall. On-campus laboratories include a rock mechanics laboratory, a mine-environment laboratory, and several mineral extraction labs. The department also operates an explosives test site on a 500-acre site about 50 kilometres north of Kingston.
Miriam of Queen's. Published in 1921, this now out-of-print novel by Queen's alumna Lilian Vaux MacKinnon (Arts 1902) tells the story of a bright young woman's adventures at Queen's at the turn of the century. The semi-autobiographical tale provides a fascinating glimpse of life at the university in the last years of george grant's principalship. It takes the reader on a tour of the formal academic world, with its caps and gowns and high moral idealism, of Queen's playing fields and skating rinks, of Kingston's drawing rooms, and of the decorous social life of the day, in which male and female students addressed each other as Mr and Miss. It is melodramatic by today's standards and now almost entirely forgotten, but it was a popular and critical success in its day and went through two editions for publishers McClelland and Stewart. MacKinnon published several short stories about Queen's later in life.
Mitchell, James. Mitchell was the founder of Queen's library collection. He was a graduate of the University of Aberdeen who emigrated to the Niagara region of Upper Canada in about 1800 as a tutor to the family of John Hamilton, who would become a founding trustee of Queen's. In 1840, by then a judge near London, Ontario, Mitchell heard that a new Scottish-Presbyterian college was to be founded in the province, and sent seven boxes of his books "to any authorized agent for managing the affairs of Queen's College; Toronto or Kingston." Evidently he did not know that Kingston had been chosen as the college's location in 1839. Among the books were a Greek dictionary, John Locke's "Essay on Human Understanding," a French New Testament of 1664, and several Greek and Latin classics. They were the first books owned by Queen's Library.
Morgan Memorial Chapel. See Theological Hall.
Morris, William (1786-c1860). Morris was the first chair of Queen's board of trustees (1840-1842) and a crucial figure in the university's early development. He was born in Scotland in 1786 and immigrated to Canada with his parents about the age of 14. He became a businessman, a founder of Perth, Ontario, and was a long-time provincial representative for Lanark. He was also the political leader of the Scottish Presbyterians who founded Queen's, and perhaps more than anyone else at this early stage his views shaped the university's future course. He led the effort to obtain the university's royal charter and, wary of too much clerical influence at Queen's, ensured that it was established not as a simple bible college, but as a true university, providing secular as well as theological training. It was also largely thanks to his efforts that the university was named "Queen's," in honour of Queen Victoria. morris hall is named in his honour.
Morris Hall. Completed in 1958, this undergraduate residence is one of four residence buildings surrounding leonard field. The others are mcneill house, gordon-brockington house, and leonard hall. Morris Hall was originally intended to house men only, but in 1972, it became Queen's first co-ed residence, and in 1988, when victoria hall became co-ed, it became all-female. Morris Hall is named after the Hon William Morris, a founder of Queen's, first chair of the board of trustees, and a member of the legislative council of Upper Canada.
Mottoes. Queen's motto is Sapientia et Doctrina Stabilitas, generally translated from the Latin as "Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times." The phrase is adapted from Isaiah XXXIII.6 and has been in use since the 1850s. Two faculties and one student organization also have mottoes. The motto of the Faculty of law is Soit Droit Fait, a Norman French phrase for "Let right be done." The phrase is traditionally associated with the rule of law in England. The motto of the Faculty of medicine is Manu et Corde Medicus, which translates from Latin as "The doctor works by hand and heart." The motto of Queen's engineering society – Quis Dolor Cui Dolium – is more irreverent. It translates as "Who suffers who has a cask of wine?" It was devised in 1963 by classics professor Tony Marshall, after he was approached by Engineering Society executives interested in lending Latin dignity to the society's informal English motto "What the hell as long as there's free beer."
Music, School of. Queen's has offered a Bachelor of Music program in the Faculty of arts and science since 1969, although students have studied music, either formally or informally, since the university was founded. In the 19th century, the main vehicles for students with a musical turn were church choirs and the Queen's Glee Club. Formal musical studies began with the appointment of Frank Harrison as resident musician in 1935; Harrison-LeCaine Hall, opened in 1974 as a home for the music program, is named jointly for him and Hugh LeCaine, a scientist, composer, Queen's graduate and a major figure in the development of electronic music in Canada. The department of music became the School of Music in the early 1990s and its department head became a director, although it is still a unit within the Faculty of Arts and Science. The school prepares students for a wide variety of professional careers in music, and prides itself on the freedom it grants upper year students to create their own program of studies within six major areas of music instruction: music education, performance, music theory, composition, music and technology, and musicology. In an effort to improve the quality of the learning environment, Harrison-Lecaine Hall recently completed internal renovations in the summer of 2000. Special features of the school are its Electroacoustic Music Studio, composers from which have played a significant role in developing electronic music in Canada, and the Music Library, which provides a wide assortment of albums, texts and theoretical treatises for students.
Degrees: Bachelor of Music (BMus)