Rotary Adventure programs focus on youth, our future leaders. These short-term and unique adventures help secondary students determine their future studies and potential careers, develop critical thinking and leadership, and build lasting friendships. Rotary Adventure programs in our Rotary District 7040 include High Tech, Environment, and Citizenship - our flagship program offered annually since 1950 in Ottawa. In 2011, local Rotarians created an Adventures in History progra

The Rotary Club of Kingston started hosting exchange students in 1983. These students not only served as ambassadors for their host countries but also continued their high school studies in the midst of a full social life, living with host families. Our first inbound student was Marija Tallus from Finland; our first outbound student was Sherri Agnew, now a Rotarian in our club. She lived and studied in Sweden in 1986-87. Since then, we have sent students from Kingston to anot

From the founding of the Kingston-Frontenac Rotary Club in 1966 until the late 1980s, the wives of club members played a very important role as members of the Kingston-Frontenac Rotary AnnEs. Before spell check and the internet, our ‘Annes’ were one of those ‘Anns with an E’. This was a time before women were admitted to Rotary and Rotary Anns had become an international organization on its own. The Kingston-Frontenac Rotary Annes supported and extended the community outreac

The term Rotary Anns was conceived by delegates on a train trip from San Francisco to the Rotary Convention in Houston, Texas, in 1914. A woman named Ann had joined her Rotarian husband for the trip and became known as Rotarian’s Ann. When a second Ann boarded the train, the name quickly morphed into Rotary Ann. In 1928, the Rotary Anns became its own organization with the goal of helping support their Rotarian husbands with social, fundraising, and service activities. The Ki

Over the past 100 years, Rotary in Kingston has focused on helping children and youth from supplying shoes, creating leadership opportunities, supporting summer outdoor experiences at RKY Camp, building a Skateboard Park, and many other projects. In the 1940s, when Canada was at war, many fathers were serving away from home, and their sons were left without fathers and male role models. Rotarians decided to help by forming a Sea Cadet Corps and a formative committee was struc