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Continue reading →: Resisting ErasureRecently, students in a new Department of History course “LGBTQ Lives and Archives” worked with the Kingston LGBTQ2S+ Collection at Queen’s University Archives. Their efforts were highlighted in an article in the Queen’s Journal. The students have each taken on a mini-history project to explore, and summaries of their findings…
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Continue reading →: Black History at Queen’s University ArchivesFebruary is Black Histories and Futures Month, an opportunity for us to reflect on the experiences and acknowledge the accomplishments of our Black community members. It is important to note that teaching and learning about Black History, in addition to recognizing Black Communities, is not constrained to the month of…
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Continue reading →: Queen’s RemembersEvery year on November 11, Canadians pause in a silent moment of remembrance for the men and women who have served and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict and peace. Remembrance Day honours those who fought for Canada in the First World War (1914-1918), the Second…
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Continue reading →: George MacMartin’s Diary and Treaties Week 2025In 2016, Ontario passed legislation for the first week of November to be known as Treaties Recognition Week. This week was developed to highlight the importance of treaties and provide further education on treaty rights and relationships. This year, Queen’s University Archives was invited to participate in Treaties week events at Queen’s Park in the Lieutenant-Governor’s suite. In…
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Continue reading →: A Weekend to Remember…Queen’s Homecoming 2025Queen’s fans at a football game [ca. 198-]. V28 Stud-74 Queen’s University Homecoming can strike both joy and fear into the hearts of Kingstonians, but the nearly 100-year-old celebration is still going strong. The first Queen’s University Homecoming occurred in 1926 and attracted 870 alumni from the classes of 1874…
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Continue reading →: 43rd Annual Archives LectureThe Queen’s University Archives Annual Archives Lecture began in 1983 with a presentation on The Monk Gibbon Papers by Dr. Norman H. MacKenzie. Since then, the lecture has highlighted the archival collections which are held by the University and has served as a public forum to disseminate and discuss the…
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Continue reading →: The Blog is Back!
A note to the Queen’s University Community, Kingston Community and Archival Community. It has been over 11 years and it feels like the right time to resurrect the Queen’s Cabinet of Canadian Curiosities blog. Hopefully this blog will be an exciting space to share what work is going on in…
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Continue reading →: Blog On Hiatus
To all of our regular followers, we must apologize for our absence over the past year. The opportunity to present quick posts on new finds in the Archives has been far and few between. We hope to return with new posts someday in the future, but until then, we will…
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Continue reading →: D-Day on a Canadian DestroyerOn the 69th Anniversary of the Allied offensive into German-occupied Europe, Queen’s Archives is pleased to present a small sample of a transcript from a CBC radio broadcast by Leonard W. Brockington, who had served as chairman of the CBC in 1936, was special assistant to Mackenzie King from 1939-42,…
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I’m Brooke
Welcome to Queen’s Cabinet of Canadian Curiosities, the Queen’s University Archives Blog. I am the Senior Archives Processing Technician at Queen’s University Archives and I will be bringing you all of our latest news, processed collections, and interesting finds from within our vault walls.
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