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HOBBIES, ACTIVITIES, SITES/CONTACTS while being in Kingston      

Walking Tours To Consider As You Explore Kingston:

Bookstores

  • As the Plot Thickens Mystery Bookshop – 66 Brock Street
  • Indigo Books & Music & Cafι – 259 Princess St.
  • Novel Idea Book Store – 156 Princess St.
  • Chapters – 2376 Princess St. (west end of the city)

Art Galleries

1. Agnes Etherington Art Centre
 (University Avenue at Bader Lane, Queen's University)
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is a jewel in the heart of Queen’s University campus. The Art Centre's permanent collection is one of the most notable in Canada. Built over the past half-century through purchase and donation, it currently numbers some 14,000 objects, and is the broadest and most diverse among Canadian university art galleries. Canadian historical and contemporary art (including new media) are particularly well represented.

2. Cornerstone
    (Contemporary Canadian Craft and Inuit Art, 225 Ontario Street)
Cornerstone has an extensive collection of Native Canadian art – prints and sculpture – along with local and Canadian-made pottery, jewellery and fine craft work. The store is on the ground floor of historic MacAulay house, a limestone home built circa 1830.

3. Robert Macklin Gallery
   (20 Market Street)
The Robert Macklin Gallery is Kingston's newest dedicated fine art gallery. The gallery opened on September 20, 2008 representing local and national emerging and established contemporary artists working in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography and works on paper.

Museums

Kingston has a long, rich and exciting history.  Here are a few museums to visit to learn about Kingston's past.

Shopping Downtown

  • Cybil Scott
  • Catwalk
  • Steilmann Outlet
  • Gracie’s -- 326 King street east – (613) 545 -3234
  • Roundstone – 50 Princess street – (613) 536-5313
  • Olden Green – 78 Princess street – (613) 546-6423
  • Agent 99 – 244 Princess street – (613) 547-0587
  • Fancy That – 50 Princess street – (613) 549-4489
  • Tweed & Hickory Fine Ladies Wear – 101 Princess street (613) 549- 8953

Hospitals & Walk-in Clinics for Emergencies

  • Kingston General Hospital (Emergency Department open 24 hours a day – close to the hotel) 76 Stuart Street
  • Hotel Dieu Hospital (Urgent Care Centre open 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. – downtown location and close to the hotel) 166 Brock Street
  • Mid-Town After Hours Medical Clinic (Saturday, Sunday & Holidays 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) Medical Arts Building, 800 Princess St., Suite 101A
  • Urgent Care Family Medical Centre (613 389-3348) Located in the Cataraqui Town Centre (west end shopping centre)
 

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