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Special Collections Past Exhibits
- Queen's Refuge: refugees and the University
September 25 - November 26 2021 - Little Wanderers: A Literary History of the British Home Children in Canada
December 2021 - Gothic Fantasy: Beyond the Penny Dreadful
October 2019 - January 2020 - “Energy and industry, with sobriety”: Emigrant Guides in Nineteenth-Century Canada
April 26 - July 2019 - A Woman's Way: Botanicals on Exhibit
February - April 2019 - Biblia Sacra: The Bible as Book
October 12 - January 31, 2018 - Introducing the Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection
November 23, 2016-February 28, 2017 - Secret/s & Surveillance Book Display
October 2016 - Illustrious Travels: Ancient Stories Re-Told
September 2016 - Young Canada: Early Canadian Children’s Literature
June-August 2016 - Prison Sentences: Penitentiary Literature in Kingston
March 1 - May 15, 2016 - Vero Wynne-Edwards and the 1937 MacMillan-Thebaud Expedition
Jan. 14 - Feb 29, 2016 - A Dickensian Holiday
Dec. 16 - Jan 4, 2016 - Humanities and Religion: An exhibit on the occasion of the Matariki Conference, Oct. 1-3, 2015
September 29 - December 15, 2015 - François I, King of France (reigned 1515-1547): An exhibit of French books
September 1 - 21, 2015 - Sir Sandford Fleming: Centenary Exhibition
July - August 2015 - Photography and the Book in the Nineteenth Century
1 April, 2015 - 31 May, 2015 - The Search for Sir John Franklin: The Erebus and The Terror
29 January, 2015 - 24 March, 2015 - Incunabula: An Exhibit of 15th Century Printing
October 20 - December 12, 2014 - Vesalius at 500: A lecture at Bracken Health Sciences Library
November 11th, 2014 at 4:30 - 5:30pm - A Pocket Cathedral
March 3 - April 30, 2014 - 125 Years of Canadian Literature at Queen's University
September 1 - October 31, 2013 - Summer Exhibition 2013
June - August 2013 - Contemporary Book Arts in Eastern Ontario
1 March - 31 May, 2013 - Charles Dickens at 200
2 April - 31 December, 2012 - Edward Gibbon and the Age of Quarto
21 September - 2 December 2011 - English Dictionaries in Global & Historical Context
3 - 5 June 2010 - The Aliquando Century
13 Feb - 31 Mar 2009 - Founding of Quebec and New France, 1608
1 December 2008 - 31 January 2009 - Palladio in Print
27 March - 31 October 2008 - The Rideau Canal - 175 Years
Fall 2007 - History of Medicine
Winter 2007 - Once Upon a Time - An Exhibition of Artist's Books
21 October - 21 December 2006 - The Albert H. Ruddell Collection of Early Maps
January - March 2006 - John Buchan - His Life, His Library, His Legacy
October 2004 - Bookbindings in Paper and Cloth 1800-1925
3 March - 8 April 2004 - Propaganda - The Medium is Never the Message!
7 March - 4 May 2003 - Leather and Vellum Bookbindings, 1500 to 1920
29 January - 12 March 2003 - Bibles through the Ages
6 December 2002 - 26 January 2003 - Highlights from the 18th Century Political & Historical Collections
17 October - 3 December 2002 - Learn Well and Progress Daily - Posters from the Chinese Cultural Revolution
29 June - 27 October 2002 - Catherine Parr Traill, Jessie Roy and Annie Boyd - 19th Century Plant Collectors
August 2002 - Postcards from the Past - Tourism Then and Now
24 May - 20 July 2002 - Ink Paper Lead, Board Leather Thread
21 March - 15 May 2002 - Catherine Parr Traill, Jessie Roy and Annie Boyd - Early Canadian Botantists
November - December 2001 - A Selection of Gifts to Special Collections from Queen's Alumni
September - October 2001 -
In Memoriam: Arthur E. Covington, Canada's Pioneer Radio Astronomer
March - OCtober 2001