Annual Archives Lecture

In the fall of every year Queen’s University Archives holds its Annual Archives Lecture. The Lecture is meant to highlight the archival collections which are held by the University and serves as a public forum to disseminate and discuss the research that is, or has been, carried out using those collections. The Archives Lecture has run every year since its inception in 1983.

A list of past lecturers can be found below:

Date Person Title

April 13, 1983

Dr. Norman H. MacKenzie

The Monk Gibbon Papers

April 6, 1984

Dr. Brian S. Osborne

Putting People in Their Place: Some Thoughts on a Regional Archives and Historical Geography

March 27, 1985

Dr. J. Douglas Stewart

The Archives 'Rehabilitates' an Architect: Thomas Rogers (c. 1780-1853) and Tuscan Kingston

April 25, 1986

Dr. Donald Swainson

Corruption, Irresponsibility and Elections in Nineteenth Century Canada

April 16, 1987

Dr. Jack Granatstein

Skelton, Mackintosh, Clark, Gordon and Deutsch

April 29, 1988

Ben Weinreb

Books are the Bones of Saints

April 12, 1989

William J. Patterson

The Formation of Pittsburgh Township

May 1, 1990

Dr. Frederick W. Gibson

The Rise and Decline of the Winnipeg Free Press: The Dafoe Years

April 18, 1991

Dr. Charles Pullen

Starting from Scratch: The Early Stages of the Critical Biography of Arthur Maloney, Criminal Lawyer, Politician, Social Reformer and Ontario's First Ombudsman

April 24, 1992

Dr. J.E. Rea

The Lingering Death of Liberal Canada: Excerpts from the Crerar Papers

April 15, 1993

Dr. Margaret Angus

My Fifty-Five Year Affair with Archives

April 21, 1994

Dr. Michael Bliss

Discovering the Insulin Documents: An Archival Adventure

April 21, 1995

The Honourable Janice MacKinnon

In Search of Sources for Loyalist History

April 18, 1996

Dr. Gerald E. Finley

Archival Sleuthing in Scotland: On the Trail of J.M.W Turner

April 17, 1997

Dr. Sandra Campbell

A Queen's Spirit of Substance: Lorne Pierce and his Alma Mater

April 22, 1998

Ian E. Wilson

The Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund: A Gift that Grows

April 22, 1999

Dr. A.B. McKillop

Watson of Queen's: A Picture behind a Portrait

October 26, 2000

Dr. John Meisel

Archives in Cyberspace, etc.

November 22, 2001

Dr. W. Craig Ferguson

The Oberon Phenomenon: A Family Affair

November 6, 2002

Dr. Jacalyn Duffin

What Goes Around, Comes Around: Medical Tuition and Political Action

October 9, 2003

Dr. Sam Solecki

In the Archives with D.H Lawrence, Jack McClelland, Earle Birney and Al Purdy

October 20, 2004

Dr. Peter Henshaw

Buchan and the Invention of Canada

October 1, 2005

Kingston Social History Tours

Kingston Social History Tours

October 11, 2006

Helen Humphreys

Leaving Earth: Writing a Novel from the Archives

October 4, 2007

Dr. Brian S. Osborne

The Paradox of Heritage: The Case of the Rideau Canal as World Heritage Site

October 15, 2008

Dr. Janet Brooke

Art for Community: The Kingston Art Collecting Society

October 22, 2009

Sean Conway

Not Going Gentle into That Good Night: Joan Finnigan Remembered

October 21, 2010

Dr. Gerald Tulchinsky

What's Special about Canadian Jewish History

October 20, 2011

Dr. Duncan McDowall

It Can't Happen Here: Chuck Edwards and the Challenge to Limestone Liberalism at Queen's 1968-1970

November 7, 2012

Dr. Cheryl McWatters

The news of our failure is almost in every child's mouth: Accounts, tales and travels through the archives

November 21, 2013

Dr. Amber Lloydlangston

Using archival material in exhibit 'Peace' (includes Edmison Diary from Queen's Archives)

October 30, 2014

Dr. Sandra Campbell

Time's Judgements Are Best?: Lorne Pierce and the Queen's University Art Foundation

October 15, 2015

Dr. Hugh Grant

W.A Mackintosh and the Folly of World War I

October 20, 2016

Deirdre Bryden

The Treasure Room: Intriguing tales of collecting at Queen's

October 26, 2017

Dr. Guy Berthiaume

Don't Know Much About Geography: Perspectives on Local, Regional, and National Archives

November 8, 2018

Murray Klippenstein

Indigenous Stories from Queen’s Archives: The Daniel MacMartin diary and the Original Oral Promises of Treaty 9

October 30, 2019

Dr. Laura Murray

Counterarchive or Nostalgia Trip? Reflections on the Swamp Ward & Inner Harbour History Project

November 27, 2020

Brandon Graham & Michael Borsk with Scott Berthelette

Treaty Research at the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation: Access, Justice, and Curiosity

Dirty Deeds?: The History of the 1796 Fairfield-Chippewa Deed in and Beyond Queen’s Archives

November 24, 2021

Dr. Swen Steinberg

Queen’s Refuge? Thoughts About an Exhibition Project and Refugee Research from a Historical Perspective

October 20, 2022

Dr. Karen Dubinsky

An Artistic Chronicle of Havana in the 1960s: Cuban-Canadian Harry Tanner

October 27, 2023

Peter L. Twohig

Preparing for ‘intelligent and thoughtful practice’: University education and health care workers, 1965-1975

October 24, 2024

Dr. Steven Maynard

"An Adventure in Fairyland": Sexual and Gender Nonconformity at Queen's in Times of Austerity - Lessons from the 1930s