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QCARD (Queen's Computerized Access and Registration Database). An on-line registration service for students, this program is run out of the Office of the University Registrar and allows students easy access to add/drop courses, check academic timetables and grades, make changes to their degree program and all other administrative aspects of the student's time at Queen's. See University Registrar.

QTV. See Queen's Video and Conferencing Services.

Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Victoria is the "Queen" in Queen's University. It is unknown who first suggested naming the university after her, but it was william morris, first Chair of the university's Board of Trustees, who cleared the idea with British authorities. The idea to name the university after the young Queen (she was 22 and only four years into her long reign when the university was founded in 1841) may have been inspired by the name of Queen's main rival, King's College (now the University of Toronto), which was named after King George IV in 1827. Queen's royal charter of 1841 was issued in Queen Victoria's name, but, despite a persistent myth, was not signed by her. It was, in fact, signed by leonard edmunds, a British Clerk to the Commissioner of Patents who was later at the centre of a major political scandal in England. Victoria hall and the Victoria school building are also named after Queen Victoria.

"Queen's College Colours." See Oil Thigh.

Queen's Crescent. This street runs from University Avenue just below the Agnes Etherington Art Centre to Collingwood Street just above Leonard Hall.

Queen's Crescent houses. In addition to the large academic buildings and residences located on Queen's Crescent (Stirling Hall and Victoria Hall, for example) there are several former homes which have been converted into university buildings. The Ban Righ Centre is housed in a small red-brick house at 32 Queen's Crescent which was once the home of the colourful vice-principal william everett mcneill and his wife caroline mcneill, the university's first dean of women. The Grey House is located in a large grey wood-frame house at number 51, built in 1900 by David Murray, a nephew of John Clarke Murray, a philosophy professor in the 19th century who offered Queen's first classes for women.

Queen's Engineers: A Century of Applied Science (1893-1993). This book by engineering professor George Richardson traces the history of the Faculty of applied science from its beginnings as the ontario school of mining and agriculture in 1893 until its 100th anniversary in 1993. It examines the development of the various engineering departments, the contributions of the deans, the achievements of alumni, the arrival of women in the faculty, and various aspects of student life, including initiation rites, the Science Formal, life in boardinghouses and residences, and the birth of the engineering society and the science 44 co-op. Professor Richardson has been a member of the Department of mechanical engineering since 1965 and introduced the university's first courses in the history of engineering.

Queen's: The First 150 Years. This lavishly illustrated coffee table book was published to commemorate Queen's sesquicentennial. It contains more than 160 contemporary and historical photographs of the university and dozens of anecdotes about the most intriguing and important people and events in Queen's history. It was produced by Hedgehog Productions for Queen's Alumni Association.

Queen's Journal. The Journal has been Queen's main student newspaper since it was founded in 1873. It appears twice a week on campus with a mix of news, sports, and entertainment stories, editorials, letters to the editor, and photographs. The paper is students' most important source of news and general information and has been a training ground for scores of Canadian journalists. It first appeared on campus on 25 October 1873 as the Queen's College Journal, a fortnightly magazine whose avowed object was to "foster a literary taste among students." It published a great deal of verse in its early years, and its prevailing tone was earnest and evangelical: typical articles were "Longevity and Work," "What is Preaching?" and "The Formation of Habits." There were also numerous verbatim reports of sermons and speeches, some of them excellent examples of Victorian long-windedness. By the mid-1880s, however, debates on purely college issues and columns of college jokes were creeping in. And by the early years of this century, the familiar news, sports, and entertainment sections were emerging. During the golden years of Queen's football in the 1920s, when the team won three straight Grey Cups, the paper cheerfully turned itself into a sports sheet, and other sections were relegated to the inside pages. It has existed in roughly its present format since the 1930s. There were a few departures from format in the late 1960s and the 1970s, however, when the paper reflected the radical tenor of the times; it was not unusual at that time to see the photograph of a nude or a piece of psychedelic art taking up the entire front page. There have been two major developments since 1980: in the mid-1980s, the paper introduced computers for writing and lay-out, and in 1991 it moved out of its traditional home in the john deutsch university centre into its own house at 272 Earl Street. The Journal is partly funded by the Alma Mater Society, but run by an independent editorial board.

Queen's Men, Canada's Men. This book by alumna Kathryn M. Bindon (MA 1973, PhD 1979) covers the military history of Queen's from the 19th century until the 1960s. It begins with an account of early militia units at the university, some of them raised in the 1860s to counter Fenian raids across the border. It describes Queen's contributions to the Boer War and to both World Wars and tracks the history of the Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC) at Queen's until the 1960s. It pays special attention to the military units in the two World Wars in which Queen's students and alumni were prominent. It was published in 1978 by the Trustees of the COTC, Queen's Contingent.

Queen's National Scholars. In 1983, Queen's decided to seek private support to launch a new program for bringing young faculty to campus. The first Queen's National Scholars were appointed in the 1985-1986 academic year, and about 70 had been appointed by 1992. The program has two goals: to make sure Queen's secures outstanding young scholars now, before anticipated faculty shortages occur next decade as the result of the retirement of professors hired in the 1960s; and to improve the proportion of women, members of visible minority groups, aboriginal people, and people with disabilities among faculty members. In line with the terms of reference for selecting the scholars approved by Senate, the criteria for selection will be as follows: Evidence of outstanding achievement in research and scholarship in relation to the candidate's career stage and background and evidence of quality of teaching. Given that the candidate qualifies under the preceding criteria, priority will be given to the objective of increasing the representation of women and designated minority groups on faculty. Preference is given to scholars at the early- or mid-career stage (normally at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor).

Queen's Quarterly. This scholarly review of general interest is the oldest academic journal in Canada. It was founded in 1893 by Principal George Grant, a fierce nationalist who wanted to extend Queen's national outreach and bring scholarship to the general public. According to a Queen's Journal article of that year, it was to be "a medium through which the best thought in Canada can find its way into every home." Originally a vehicle for articles by Queen's faculty, the Quarterly now carries pieces by a cast of prominent Canadian and international academics and writers, including in recent years Michael Ignatieff, Mavis Gallant, Conor Cruise O'Brien, John Polanyi, Jeffery Simpson, Robert Fulford, Umberto Eco and Mark Kingwell. It contains articles on politics, literature, science, the arts, and a variety of other subjects. It also carries some poetry and fiction and an extensive new book review section. The Quarterly's offices are located at 144 barrie street. It reports to the vice-principal (academic).

Queen's! Queen's! Queen's! This book, first published in 1977, contains the personal reminiscences of the late herb hamilton, student, alumnus, Director of alumni affairs, and editor for almost 40 years of the queen's review. The anecdotal history covers the years between the early 1930s and the mid-1970s, and gives the reader a more vivid picture of student life in this period than any other account. It describes where students lived and ate, how they dressed and entertained themselves, the fads that they followed, their pranks and protests, and their steadily increasing affluence and freedom. The book also contains profiles of all Queen's principals from 1929 to 1977, as well as of memorable campus characters such as William McNeill, Alfie Pierce, William "dollar bill" Allen, and Frank Tindall.

Queen's Solar Vehicle Team. An undergraduate, multidisciplinary project dedicated to the construction and competition of a solar powered electric vehicle. A project commenced in 1989, the team has done much to educate students and the public about the efficiency of solar power, in addition to racing at various international events. The Solar Car is based out of the Faculty of Applied Science.

Queen's Video and Multimedia Services. VMP assists professors to tape and produce lectures, labs, and documentaries and stocks a library of videotapes on a wide variety of educational subjects. The office also produces special projects on its own initiative and at the request of academic and staff departments. Projects include documentaries on the building of the stauffer library and the royal visit of Prince Charles and Princess Diana to Queen's in 1991. A wide variety of films to be screened on campus, for teaching purposes or entertainment, are obtained through VMP. Another video up-link service provided by VMP enables faculty to do national television interviews without leaving the campus. The office is located in McArthur hall on West Campus.

Queen's University Engineering Society Services Inc. This is the non-profit corporation that has owned and operated the campus bookstore since 1963. (For the history of the bookstore before that, see Campus Bookstore entry.) A majority of the members of the board of directors of QUESSI must be undergraduate applied science students, effectively giving them control over the bookstore. The rest of the board is made up of Applied Science faculty or alumni nominated by the engineering society, and nominees of the board of trustees and the senate. According to an agreement among the Engineering Society, QUESSI and Queen's, all bookstore revenues must be used to the fullest extent possible for the development of the bookstore as an academic resource for the university.

Queen's University Alumni Association (QUAA) Anyone who has graduated from the University, or who has attended classes for one full academic year, and whose class has graduated, automatically becomes a member of the Queen's University Alumni Association. The Association has more than 126,000 members worldwide. It was founded in 1926 on the suggestion of Samuel Stalford, a professional fundraiser from Montreal who had been hired by the University to direct an endowment campaign.

The official mission of the QUAA is "to reach out and foster a lifelong association with Queen's, to engage our members in the life and work of the University, and to serve the alumni community in all its diversity."

The Association is governed by a volunteer President and Board of Directors, who are drawn from a constituent assembly made up of representatives of the more than 40 alumni Branches. The President works closely with the department of Alumni Relations. For more detail about the joint activities of the Department and the Association, see Alumni Relations.

Queen's University Faculty Association (QUFA). Please see Faculty Association, Queen's University.

Queen's University Infrastructure Programs Task Force (eQUIP). Part of the Office of the Vice Principal (Research), the eQUIP Task Force assists in the development of applications to the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund (ORDCF), the Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT), the Premier's Research Excellence Awards (PREA) program and the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program. These programs provide funding for research infrastructure and personnel. To date more than $55,000,000 has been approved for projects submitted by Queen's. It is located in Fleming Hall, Jemmett Wing.


Queen's University at Kingston: The First Century of a Scottish-Canadian Foundation, 1841-1941. This was the first comprehensive history of Queen's and remains a valuable source of information about the university. Written by D.D. Calvin (BA 1902), an architect and member of Queen's board of trustees, the book describes Queen's founding, its troubled early decades, and its emergence as a major national institution under Principal george monro grant. It tells the story of Queen's separation from the presbyterian church early this century, the crises of the First World War, and the emergence of the modern university in the 1920s and 1930s. It also contains excellent chapters on Queen's faculties, student life, lands and buildings, and women at the university. The book was published by the Board of Trustees for Queen's centennial celebrations in 1941.

Queen's University, Volume I, 1841-1917: And Not to Yield. In 1969, the board of trustees decided to commission a new official history of the university, to supplement D.D. Calvin's queen's university at kingston, then almost 30 years old. Prominent Canadian historian Hilda Neatby, then nearing retirement as Head of the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan, was entrusted with the task. She died in 1975 before she could complete the history, but the chapters she had finished, which covered the first 76 years of Queen's history, were published in 1978 by queen's-mcgill press. They were edited and completed by two members of Queen's Department of history: former department head Roger Graham and frederick gibson, who later wrote queen's university, volume ii.

In Volume i, Neatby traces the development of the university from its inauspicious beginnings as a struggling Presbyterian "Bible college" to the period when it had become a permanent national institution. The story is one of early setbacks, resulting from financial crises, divisions within the presbyterian church, and internal conflict, followed by periods of recovery in which Queen's College (as it was then known) demonstrated a remarkable will to survive. Not until the principalship (1877-1902) of george monro grant did the college achieve the position it has held since as one of Canada's major universities. The figure of Grant inevitably dominates the volume, but full recognition is given to other builders and preservers of Queen's, notably William snodgrass, the Principal who weathered the storms of the 1860s and 1870s, and Daniel Miner Gordon, who presided over the secularization of the university in the early years of this century. Neatby examines in detail the role of the board of trustees, the senate, and the Alma Mater Society in Queen's development, and explores the complex relationships with the Presbyterian Church, other universities, and the provincial government. She shows how the distinctive character of Queen's was shaped by its Scottish heritage, evident in an emphasis on flexible curriculum, close faculty-student relations, and student self-government, as well as in independence in the face of repeated pressure for the concentration of higher education in Toronto. Other books by Neatby include several volumes on the history of Quebec and an acclaimed critique of education in Canada, So Little for the Mind.

Queen's University, Volume II, 1917-1961: To Serve And Yet Be Free. This second volume in the official history of Queen's was published by queen's-mcgill press in 1983. In it, the late frederick gibson of Queen's Department of history places the development of the university in the context of its relationship with a growing Canadian nation. Gibson emphasizes the role of individuals, in particular Principals robert taylor, william fyfe, robert wallace, and william mackintosh, in Queen's growth. And yet he makes it clear that by the time of its centenary in the early years of the Second World War, Queen's had developed a vitality that enabled it to transcend the tensions occasioned by internal, personal squabbles and by external misfortunes. He describes Queen's physical growth, the evolution of student life, the long, hard struggle for adequate resources for research, the gradual development of graduate work, and the building of library resources. He outlines the crises of the Second World War, the impact of the Cold War on Queen's, and the emergence of the great boom years of the 1950s and 1960s. With Roger Graham, Gibson edited the first volume in Queen's official history, queen's university, volume I, after the death of author Hilda Neatby in 1975.

Queen's Pub. Formerly known as the Quiet Pub, founded in 1977, renamed in 1997 and expanded in 1998, the pub incorporates an intimate wood-panelled room, the original McLaughlin Room, in the John Deutsch University Centre. The pub has a capacity of 130 and is supervised by the Alma Mater Society.

Queen's Today. An on-line listing of Queen's news and events, this service provides faculty and staff the opportunity to learn more about the ongoings of Queen's, updated every day. Launched in 1996, QT is part of Marketing and Communications.

Queen's Weeneebayko Program. Initiated in 1965, this program provides a link between remote communities in northern Ontario and Queen's health care faculty. Formerly known as the Queen's Moose Factory and jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments, the $2.6-million-a-year program serves roughly 10,000 people in an area stretching 350 miles along the western coast of James Bay and Hudson Bay north from the island of Moose Factory near Moosonee. It greatly expands access to health care for the area's largely aboriginal communities by bringing Queen's clinicians to the Mushkegowuk Territory and, in serious cases, by flying patients to Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital. Ten full-time physicians, a full time surgeon and an equivalent to full time anesthetist are based at the Weeneebayko General Hospital at Moose Factory. The Queen's/Weeneebayko Program provides numerous visiting specialists in areas such as obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, internal medicine, ENT, urology, ophthalmology, neurology, nephrology, rheumatology audiology and radiology. Electives are offered to third and fourth year medical students and family medicine residents and placements for nurses and nurse practitioners can be arranged. Placements for students from other Universities across Canada are co-ordinated with this program.

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