Books: first gift of books was 6 rare volumes

In the summer of 1840, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t yet exist. The colonial legislature had given its blessing to the project, and a royal charter from Queen Victoria would arrive the next year, but at that time there were no buildings, no faculty, and no students. The school had only one physical asset: books.

In July of 1840, a letter addressed to 카지노 게임 컬렉션�any authorized agent for managing [the] affairs of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s College, Kingston카지노 게임 컬렉션� arrived, announcing an unexpected gift to the unbuilt institution. The letter came with a bundle of books. The university카지노 게임 컬렉션�s first benefactor was 카지노 게임 컬렉션� Judge James Mitchell of the London District in western Upper Canada. Aberdeen-born, he had immigrated to Canada as a tutor.

After he arrived in Canada, the young educator served as a militia captain in the War of 1812. Mitchell then became a leading educator and founder of grammar schools, a prominent landowner, and finally, in 1819, judge of the London District, a post he would hold until his death from cholera in 1853. He strongly believed that education was the key to progress in the young colony.

Judge Mitchell was a friend of the prominent Anglican bishop John Strachan, so it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a bit surprising that he sent his books to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, as Bishop Strachan was president of Toronto카지노 게임 컬렉션�s King카지노 게임 컬렉션�s College, the forerunner to today카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto. Nonetheless, Judge Mitchell decided Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s College should receive the gift of six rare and precious volumes:

• a Greek lexicon
• a 16th-century Latin Bible
• New Testaments in French and in Greek
• a two-volume 1760 copy of John Locke카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Essay Concerning Human Understanding

With no library, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s founders stored the books in the tower of St. Andrew카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Presbyterian Church in downtown Kingston. Once the royal charter was obtained in 1841, the Mitchell donation became the kernel of the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s library system. By the 1870s, the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Journal was complaining that the college카지노 게임 컬렉션�s library in the Old Medical Building was 카지노 게임 컬렉션�choked up with books.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Today, the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s library system boasts several million physical volumes, plus countless more articles, books and materials online. The Mitchell Collection still forms part of the W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library.