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Osborne, Brian Stuart 

 

 Dr. Brian Osborne
 Professor Emeritus
 B.A., Ph.D. (Southampton, 1967)
 Office: Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D312
 Phone: +001 (613) 533-6042
 Fax: +001 (613) 533-6122
 Email:osborneb@queensu.ca


Popular Articles

1981. “Potash, Wheat and Cheese: The Agriculture of Frontenac County in the Nineteenth Century.” Pittsburgh Historical Society, 17 21.

1982. “Thomas Burrowes, the Artist of the Rideau.” Pittsburgh Historical Society, 6 12.

1982. Review of Building the Rideau Canal: A Pictorial History, by R.W. Passfield. Canadian Geographic Journal, 80, Aug/Sept.

1982/83. “Landscape of Ontario.” University of the Air, CTV, (six units).

“Essay on Kingston.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, 941-2.

1986. [with Donald Swainson] “Lost Opportunities.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, June 28, 7-12.

1986. “The Sault Canal.” Horizon Canada, Vol. 7, No. 80, l9l0-l9l5.

1986. “Le dernier maillon: La construction d’un canal a Sault Sainte Marie complete la route navigable jusqu’au coeur du continent.” Horizon Canada, Vol. 7, No. 80, 1910 1915.

1986. “The Stamp of Progress.” Horizon Canada, Vol. 10, No. 118, 2816-2821.

1986. “Un facteur de progres: Les services postaux avant la Premiere Guerre Mondiale.” Horizon Canada, Vol. 10, No. 118, 2816-2821.

1988. “Kingston.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition.

1988. Review of The Heart of the Country, by F. Dahms. Canadian Geographic, Vol. 108, No. 6, 92.

1988. “Preserving Kingston’s Personality.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, June, 5-8.

1988. “A Kingston Soldier’s War.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 12 November, 4-7.

1988. [with Donald Swainson] “An Anglican Diocese.” Ontario Churchman, Vol. 30, No. 9, November, 5.

1989. Review of C. Fuykschot, Hunger in Holland. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 18 February.

1989. “Do You Remember Paddy Doolan?” Queen’s Alumni Review, July August, 17-18.

1989. “Zimbabwe Follows Path to Socialism while Giving the nod to Capitalist Enterprise.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 6 July.

1989. “Whites Face Land Appropriations as Zimbabwe’s Homeless Population Grows.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 10 July.

1989. Review of L. Luciuk and B.S. Kordan, Creating a Landscape: A Geography of Ukrainians in Canada. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 28 October, 21.

1989. Review of W. Patterson, Lilacs and Limestone. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 23 December.

1989. Review of The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, by D. Fetherling. Canadian Geographic, December, 131.

1990. [with W. George Lovell] “Living Places.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 27 October, 22.

1990. [with Geraint B. Osborne] “We Can Do It! Kingston’s Women of War.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 10 November, 8-11.

1990. Review of D. Kerr and D. Holdsworth (eds.), Historic Atlas of Canada, Vol. III, Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 15 December, 15.

1990. Review of “Kingston” in Fred Gravier (ed.), The Canadian Pub Guide and Bar Book. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 96-99.

1990. “Colorizing the Danube.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 22 December, 23.

1990. Review of Not for Gold Alone, by Franc Joubin. Canadian Geographic, June July, 80.

1990. Review of Sudeten in Saskatchewan: A Way to be Free, by Rita Schilling. Canadian Geographic, April/May 1991, 100-102.

1991. Review of Cecil Houston and William Smythe, Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 5 January, 15.

1991. “Postscript: Most Pleased with new Rural Mail Outlets.” Ottawa Citizen, 12 April.

1991. “A furrow 300 years long.” Review of P. Jenkins, Fields of Vision. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 8 June, 18.

1991. “Life out in the Sticks.” Review of Don Mitchell, Growing up Country. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 9 November, 21.

1991. “The Long View Across the Pond.” Review of Richard Cutchfield’s, An American Looks at Britain. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 23 November.

1991. “Too Much Geography, Too Little Summer.” Review of David C. Woodman, Unravelling the Franklin Mystery. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 7 December.

1991. [with m. Qadeer] “The Library Lesson: The Case of the Queen’s Library.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 14 December.

1991. Review of Peter C. Newman, Merchant Princess: Company of Adventurers, Vol. III. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 14 December.

1991. “Tapestry of Place.” Review of Silver D. Cameron’s, Wind, Whales, and Whiskey. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 28 December.

1992. “Go not to Glengarry....” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 15 February.

1992. “A rat for all that.” Review of Jim Cameron’s, The Canadian Beaver Book. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 28 March.

1992. “Idealist History.” Review of Eric Ross’, Full of Hope and Promise. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 9 May.

1992. “Preaching the Gospel of a New Canada.” Review of Preston Manning and the Reform Party, and P. Manning, The New Canada. Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 16 May.

1992. [with Malcolm Williams] “Ideas of Wales: The Folklore and the Future.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 20 June.

1992. “Arthur: A Story of Men, Horses and Machines.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 17 July.

1992. [with Geraint B. Osborne] “Dieppe: The Valor and the Furore.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, 15 August.

1992. [with Malcolm Williams] “Celebrating Welshness in a New Europe.” The Celtic Connection, Vol. 2, No. 8, October.

1992. Review of “Two Hundred Years in Pictures,” by R. Hall and G. Dodds. Canadian Geographic, November December.

1992. “The Call of the Race.” Review of Ron Graham’s, “The French Quarter.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, December.

1992. Review of “A Long and Terrible Shadow,” by T. Berger. Canadian Geographic, January February, 85-86.

1992. Review of “The Canadian Beaver Book: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy,” by Jim Cameron. Canadian Geographic, May.

1993. Review of “Full of Hope and Promise,” by E. Ross. Canadian Geographic, January February, 90.

1993. Review of “Niagara,” by P. Berton. Canadian Geographic, January February, 86-87.

1993. Review of “The Imaginary Indian,” by D. Francis. Canadian Geographic, March April, 94-95.

1993. “Literature’s Places.” Review of W. Keith’s, “Literary Images of Ontario.” Kingston: The Whig Standard Magazine, March.

1993. [with Malcolm Williams] “The Idea of Wales.” Y Ddrych. Vol. 142, N. 3, March, 16-17.

1993. Review of “Mapping Canada,” by Grant Reid. Canadian Geographic, May/June, 92-93.

1993. “The Future: Utopia, Dystopia or just more of the same?” Review of Patricia Elliot’s, Rethinking the Future. Kingston: The Whig Standard Companion, April.

1993. “Enemy of the Heroic Past.” Review of Esther Delisle’s, The Traitor and the Jew. Kingston: The Whig Standard Companion, August.

1993. “Along Horse Appled Roads.” Review of Larry Turner’s, Ernestown, Rural Spaces, Urban Places. Kingston: The Whig Standard Companion, August.

1993. “Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology, 1660-1860,” by G. Warkentin. Canadian Geographic, September/October, 80.

1994. “The First Summer People: The Thousand Islands, 1650-1910,” by Susan Weston Smith. Canadian Geographic, May-June, 98-99.

1994. “Legends Told in Canada,” by Edith Fowke. Canadian Geographic, July-August, 69.
1994. “Houses and Homes: Housing for Canadians,” by John Sewell. Canadian Geographic, September-October, 75-76.

1994. “A History of Canadian Architecture,” by Harold Kalman. Canadian Geographic, November, 89-91.

1994. “The Age of Steam on Lake Temiskaming,” by Bruce W. Taylor and “Our Living Heritage,” by J.R.M. Kelso and J.W. Demers. Canadian Geographic, November, 85-86.

1995. “St. James Anglican Church, Kingston,” by David Lyon. Kingston Whig-Standard Magazine, December.

1996. “When Kingston was the Derry of Canada.” Kingston Whig-Standard, 14 August.

1996. “... And a Canadian Geographer.” Emmanuel College Magazine, Vol. LXXVIII, 73-4.

1997. “The Shifting Face of Princess Street.” PIC Press, 1 December, 10.

1999. [with Bryan Palmer]. “Lives Lived: Donald W. Swainson.” Globe and Mail, 11 January, A18.

1999. “Byways No. 1: The Original Friends of the Rideau.” Winter/Spring; “Byways No. 2: Picking the Route.” Summer; “Byways No. 3: An Incident along the Way.” The Rideau Ripple, Fall.

1999. Editorials and several pieces in Limelight, Vol. 1, Nos. 2-4.

2000. “Byways No. 4: Controlling the waters.” Winter; “Byways No. 5: Recording the Rideau.” The Rideau Ripple, Summer.

2000. “Replacing Old with New is Kingston’s Conundrum.” Kingston Whig Standard, 27 May, 7.

2000. Editorials and several pieces in Limelight, Vol. 2, Nos. 1-9.

2001. Editorials and several pieces in Limelight, Vol. 3, Nos. 1-9.

2001. “Byways No. 6: Drama at the Locks.” Winter/Spring; “Byways No. 7: Controlling the Waters.” Rideau Reflections, Summer/Fall.

2002. “Byways No. 8: The Stones of the Rideau”; “Byways No. 9: Hewers of Wood”; “Byways No. 10: The Diver.” Rideau Reflections.

2002. Editorials and several pieces in Limelight, Vol. 4, Nos. 1-9.

2003. “Byways No. 11: The Floating Plant”; “Byways No. 12: Life on Board”; “Byways No. 13: Deans’ Island”; “Byways No. 14: Evaluating the Rideau in 1871.” Rideau Reflections, Spring.

2003. Editorials and several pieces in Limelight, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-9.

2004. “Byways No. 15: “Powerful Arguments,” No. 16, “Getting on Line.” Rideau Reflections, No. 17: “From Business to Pleasure.” Rideau Reflections, Fall.

2004. “Kingston’s Community Centre,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 6 November, 7.

2004. Editorials and several pieces in Limelight, Vol. 6, Nos. 1-9.

2004. Osborne, B.S. and Helen Acton. 2004. “Preface” for Tom Cummings, Gopher Hills. Past Forward Heritage Limited, ii-v.

2005. Editorials and several pieces in Limelight, Vol. 7, Nos. 1-5.

2005. “Learning history from the bottom up.” The Ottawa Citizen, B1, B4

2005. “Byways No. 18: “Roofs, Walls, Accommodations,” Byways No. 19 “A Devil of a Problem.” From Business to Pleasure.” Rideau Reflections.

2006. "Byways No. 20: "From Water Flows to Revenue Flows," Byways No. 21, "Chateau Rideau," Rideau Reflections.

2006. “Byways No. 25: “From Water Flows to Revenue Flows,” Rideau Reflections.

2006. “Byways No. 20: “From Water Flows to Revenue Flows,” Byways No. 21, “Chateau Rideau,” Byways No. 22 “An Exercise in Serendipity at Queen’s Archives,” Rideau Reflections.

2006. [with George Dillon] “Tracking our railway history: Trains rolled into Kingston station for the first time 150 years ago today,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 27 October 2006, p. 5.

2006. “An honest broker,” Ripples: Report of Community Foundation of Kingston, No. 19, Fall, p.5.

2006. “Women at war – and schoolboys too!” Jib Gems: Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, Vol. 21, No. 4, December, 9.

2007. “Byways No. 23: “From Brush Poles to Spar-Buoys: Marking the Channels”; No.24, “Setting a Course for the Future”; No. 25 “By the Way: A Story about the Rideau.” Rideau Reflections

2007. “The Dragon and the Goat on the Hill.” Kingston Whig Standard, 1 March.

2007. “What’s Happening at Kingston for RIDEAU 175?” Jib Gems, Vol. 22, No. 1, March, 6-7; “Brush-poles, Spar-buoys, and Charts: Navigating the Rideau,” No. 3, September, 14-15; “Shipbuilding on the Rideau,” No. 4, December, 16-17.

2007. “Strengthening the foundations of a greater Kingston community,” Ripples: Report of Community Foundation of Kingston, No. 21, Fall/Winter, p. 1.

2008. (with Ed Bebee) “The Rideau Waterway Symposium, Kingston, November 2007: A Synopsis), Rideau Reflections, Winter/Spring, p. 3.

2008. “Ruggles remembered for contributions to Queen’s, Kingston,” Queen’s Gazette, p. 12, 25 February.

2008. “Changing Perceptions of the Rideau: Landscapes, Palimpsests, Inscapes, Proscapes,” Keynote Address: Ninth Annual NHSAO Conference, Site Lines, No. 18 February, pp. 2-4.

2008. “Kingston in 25 Years: Small is Beautiful,” Kingston Life, pp. 44-45, March 2008.

2008. “How Did they Go From Kingston to Montreal? Up and Down, a Circular Run, or One Way Only?” Jib Gems, Vol. 23, No. 1, March, pp. 16-17.

2008. “World Approved,” Ablaze with Glory: Fort Henry National Historic Site of Canada, May 2008, pp. 4-7.

2008. “What’s up with the Rideau Waterway?” Boating East: Cruising & Waterway Lifestyle Guide, May, pp. 44-47.

2008. “Hands Across the Causeway,” Ripples: Report of Community Foundation of Kingston, No. 22, Summer, p. 1.

2008. “Worthy of recognition: Maybe Fort Frontenac should be our next world heritage site,” Kingston Whig Standard, 12 July p. 9.

2008. “Round and About: A Letter from Kingston, 1827,” No. 4, p 5; “The genius Loci of McBurney Park: From Urban Edge to the Centre of a Community,” No. 6, pp. 4-5; “Round and About: The Fall of Fort Frontenac,” No. 7, p.3; “Round and About: The Kingston-Glasgow Connection,” No. 9, pp 4-4, Limelight, Vol. 10.

2008. “Kingston’s Lower Burial Ground,” Cataraqui Loyalist Town Crier, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 1-3, November, 2008.

2009. “Round and About Us: Life on Middle Road in the 1930s,” No. 1, p.3.; “Round and About Us: Local Connections to Charles Darwin,” No. 4, pp.4-5; “Around and About Us: Where was Samuel Champlain in the Winter of 1615?” No. 5, p. 6; Limelight, Vol 11.

2009. “Page 4: What about the Workus,” No. 1, pp.12-13; “Page 5: Who Was in Control?” No. 2; 16-17; “Page 6: Reminiscing on HMCS Charlottetown,” No. 3, 14-15; “Membership in your Marine Museum,” No. 4, 7; “Page 7: A novel way of docking at Brockville, June 1936!,” 12-13; Jib Gems, .Vol. 24.

2009. “The 2008 public lecture series,” Subsoil, Vol. 26, p. 11.

2010. “The Foundations of Sustaining Kingston” No. 26 Spring, p. 11 Ripples: Report of Community Foundation of Kingston.

2010. “Page 8: “Passengers, Hotels, and Ships: A Dramatic Event at Manoir Rochelieu,” Jib Gems, Vol. 25, March, 8-9; “Page 9: The end of the Line: The fate of CSL's Passenger Fleet,” Vol. 25, October, 8-9.
 
2010. Kingston Whig Standard, “Question candidates about how they would market Kingston: Does city want to attract tourists, retirees, high-tec business or all three?” 16 October, 5.

2010. “Question candidates about how they would market Kingston: Does city want to attract tourists, retirees, high-tech business or all three?” Kingston Whig Standard, 16 October, p. 5.

2011. “Toomey Strait, Antarctica,” Kingston Whig Standard, 22 November, p.5.

2011. “Page 10: The ‘Big Boats’: The Upper Lakers,” Jib Gems, Vol. 26, No. 1, February, 12-13; “Page 11: The Shipyards: The Feminine Touch,” Vol. 26, No. 2, June, 12-13; “Page 12 of the MMGLK history” Donald Page (1915-1993). The  last Page of the Shipyards: Final thoughts,”Vol.26. No. 3, 12-13; “A voyage into the past with the SS Keyvive,”.  14-16.

2011. “To See Ourselves as Others See Us”: An American Perspective, 1890” Limelight, Vol 13, No. 3, March, 4.