CENTENARY OF QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, CANADA

Abstract

ON October 16, 1841, a Royal Charter was granted to Queen's College, to be established in Kingston in Canada. The Presbyterian Church of Canada, resentful of the position which had been taken by the Anglicans in the management of higher education, felt that it was necessary to have a college at which men might be educated in arts and theology for the ministry of the Church, and made application for the charter. Thus Queen's began as a denominational college, and remained under denominational control until 1912, when the Presbyterian Church relinquished all connexion with the University. A Theological College then was established under separate administration, though closely connected with the University, and was associated with the Presbyterian Church until 1925, when, on the Union of Presbyterians, Methodists and Congregationalists in Canada, the Theological College became affiliated with the United Church of Canada, and still maintains that affiliation.