Books about Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s

Most of these books are available from Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University Libraries.

  • A Woman with a Purpose
    By Elizabeth Smith. From her personal diaries 1872-1884. Published in 1980.

  • Cornerstones and Plaques: Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s History in Names
    A slim volume on the history of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s buildings, written by Margaret Angus and published in 1991.

  • Daniel M. Gordon: His Life
    By Wilhelmina Gordon (a biography of her father, Daniel Gordon, who was Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s eighth Principal). Published by Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1941.

  • Domesday Book of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University
    1887-1924.

  • Drama at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s From its Beginning to 1991 
    By Erdmute Waldhauer.

  • Faithful Unto Death
    A biography of John Anderson, Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s first janitor. It was written by Agnes Maule Machar, daughter of the Rev John Machar, and published in 1859.

  • George Monro Grant
    A biography of George Grant, Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s most famous Principal, for whom Grant Hall is named. The book is written by William Lawson Grant and Frederick Hamilton, and was published in 1905.

  • In the Shadow of the Shield
    By Arthur Zimmerman, Program Director of CFRC from 1984 to 1988, on the history of CFRC radio station.

  • Miriam of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s
    By Lilian Vaux MacKinnon. Published in 1921.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s! Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s! Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s!
    By Herb Hamilton. Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s circa 1930s-1970s. Published in 1977.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Biology
    By B.N. Smallman, H.M. Good, and A.S. West.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Engineers: A Century of Applied Science (1893-1993)
    By George Richardson.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Men, Canada's Men
    By Kathryn Bindon. The military history of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s from the 19th century until the 1960s. Published in 1978.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Profiles
    Another collection of profiles of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s figures, this one written by David G. Dewar and published in 1951.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s: The First 150 Years
    Complete with many photographs, celebrating the history of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s and detailing its rich history. The book was edited by Thomas H. Carpenter and was published in 1990 by the Alumni Association.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University Alumnae Association 1900-1961 and Women's Residences at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s
    Edited by Mary Chown, Melva Eagleson and Thelma Boucher. Published in 1962.
    In 1992, this book was edited for republication by Margaret Gibson and reissued as A Generous Loyalty: The Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Alumnae Memory Book.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University at Kingston: The First Century of a Scottish-Canadian Foundation 1841-1941
    A history of the first hundred years of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s by D. D. Calvin, published in 1941.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University: Volume I 1841-1917
    A wonderful and detailed history of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s written by Hilda Neatby and edited by Frederick W. Gibson and Roger Graham, published in 1978.

  • Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University: Volume II 1917-1961
    The second volume of this superb history, written by Frederick W. Gibson and published in 1983.


  • This third volume of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s history by University Historian Duncan McDowell is "copiously illustrated with photographs of important people, events, and aspects of campus life."

  • Setting the Agenda: Jean Royce and the Shaping of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University
    By Roberta Hamilton. Published in 2002.

  • Some Great Men of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s
    A collection of profiles edited by former Principal R.C. Wallace and published in 1941.

  • Still Running
    Edited by Joy Parr. Reminiscences circa 1920s-1980s. Published in 1987.

  • The First Fifty Years. A History of the Science Faculty at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University 1893-1943
    A history of the Faculty of Applied Science written by former Dean of Applied Science Arthur Clark and published in 1943.

  • Their Leaven of Influence: Deans of Women at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University 1916-1996
    By Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s alumnae Maureen McCallum Garvie and Jennifer L. Johnson. Published in 1999.