Queen’s Campus

A beautiful Place to Learn

The young often don’t recognize beauty or appreciate it when it is before them and around them. They are too busy being young. But from my first day at Queen’s I knew it was special.

I spent hours walking by the lakeshore, up University Avenue, through the Students Union, and back past Theological Hall and the lower campus. The old buildings set among those beautiful elm trees calmed the mind. I remember one day on one of my walks being so wrapped in the beauty of the campus that I stopped on University Avenue outside Ontario Hall and said to myself that I must remember that moment as long as I live. And I have done so.

But things have changed. The University got big and new concrete buildings sprang up everywhere. I feel like a stranger now when I walk on the campus.

Where are the trees? In my last years at Queen’s we heard about a disease that was attacking trees: the Dutch Elm Disease. It had appeared in Ontario and the only way to combat it was to cut down and burn the trees in its path. I was gone by the time they came for the trees on my beloved campus. I am glad of that.

In those days Queen’s was a smaller quieter place, a single campus wedged between Kingston and the lakeshore. In my time there I had no idea how those years would shape my life.

Ontario Hall in the Fall, 1962 (Image 25001)

Theological Hall – 1963  (Image 25004)

Students Memorial Union  1962  (Image 25006)

The Queen’s Tea Room as it was in 1963  (Image 25007)

Dunning Hall  1963  (Image 25010)

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