50 Years of Women in Residence

Fifty years ago (in 1973), Queen’s College began admitting women into residency, thus ending 85 years as a male residential College. As part of our anniversary year, we interviewed women who had resided at Queen’s across the past five decades.

In fact, the female presence at Queen’s goes back much further than 1973 — there have been women closely associated with Queen’s since it opened in 1888. One such women was Dr Mary de Garis (1900) and we’ve included her as the first profile on this page.

The fascinating recollections of all the women featured on this page show the many changes that have occurred at Queen’s over the years, but they also show how friendship, support and community have been the enduring Queen’s values across the decades.

Here are their stories: