Queen's: The First One Hundred and Fifty Years

George A. Rawlyk is a professor of History at Queen’s University and
the author of Champions of the Truth: Fundamentalism, Modernism, and the
Maritime Baptists.

This book is obviously aimed at the Queen’s alumni market.

Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario, was founded in 1841 as a
Presbyterian College. Though its official ties with the Presbyterians
were general in 1912, during the past 80 years the university has not
been able to completely shake off this religious heritage.

This book has scores of beautiful colored and black-and-white
photographs that very effectively convey the evolving Queen’s
experience. The short prose passages accompanying them, however, are
often lifeless and lacking in both substance and style. Moreover, the
book’s almost contrived design leaves something to be desired. Despite
this and other flaws, thousands of Queen’s graduates will, I am sure,
purchase this book and fondly remember their glory days in the
“Limestone City.”