[3] Kingston was a volunteer with Hockey Canada programming for ten years, including roles with the 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1994 Olympic teams.
In 1989, Kingston was appointed the head coach of the Norway men's national ice hockey team, which he held until 1991.
[4] He next coached Norway's national women's team and laid the foundation with very young players who moved up the ladder in international hockey, and assisted the men's national team in qualifying for the Vancouver Olympics, as well as being a special consultant to the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation and Olympiatoppen, the Norwegian Olympic Program.
[citation needed] Kingston developed a reputation as a "teaching coach", in that he was interested in showing players how to play better, and not just giving instructions as was common in the 1960s and 1970s.
He took a sabbatical in 1974–75 and returned to Europe, spending time in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden to see how their hockey programs worked.