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Land Donation gives Queen’s Access to Unique Ecosystem

Larry McKeown, MA'86, and his sister, Anna Kelly. Artsci'81, Ed'81, donated land in honour of their grandmother, Kathleen McKeown (nee Ralph), Arts 1916.

Students and researchers have access to ecologically important land and a wider range of plants, animals, and insects for field studies, thanks to the generosity of a Queen's family.

Queen's experts ensure past won't stay buried

For more than a century, a burial ground beneath a church in downtown Kingston has remained hidden. Some of the city’s earliest citizens – including prominent residents, sailors, Black slaves brought here by the Loyalists, and American prisoners of the War of 1812 – are interred there; their identities slowly fading from the pages of history.