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sight was failing, and he evidently was blind three years later when Buade* de Frontenac petitioned the king for help
de Denonville on a journey to Fort Frontenac (Cataracoui, now Kingston, Ont.), landing at frequent intervals to observe and calculate latitudes and to draw a map. During the next year, he was fully
 
colonial regular troops, and the following year he was appointed commandant at Trois-Rivières. In 1692, in a memorandum to Governor Frontenac
 
Buade de Frontenac at Cataracoui in the summer of 1673, Garakontié was the first to speak for them. He died of an illness in the winter of 1677–78, at an advanced age and was buried in European
 
developed a flourishing shipping and shipbuilding business. He helped construct the Frontenac, the first steamboat on Lake Ontario, in 1816, and is sometimes called “the father of steam navigation on
 
Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) was rumoured – an attack which occurred a few weeks later. Hotsinoñhyahtaˀ) went to Canada in the autumn of 1758. On his return he advised Johnson that a French expedition was
 
Bay in 1689, and with Jolliet in Labrador in 1694, and it was he whom the king sent to warn Frontenac [see
, Les avocats de la région de Québec, 146. Frère Éloi-Gérard [Talbot], Recueil des généalogies des comtés de Beauce-Dorchester-Frontenac, 1625–1946 (11v., Beauceville, Qué., 1949–55), I
. Buade* de Frontenac hoped to make peace between the Ottawas and the Sioux, as warfare between them interfered with the fur trade. He asked that they direct their energies against the Iroquois
 
. Royal Fort Frontenac (Preston and Lamontagne), 34, 476. Philéas Gagnon, “Noms propres du Canada-Français . . . ,” BRH, XV (1909), 51. “Les La Mothe du régime
 
“Lattoras”). Murdoch, History of Nova-Scotia, I. Parkman, Count Frontenac and New France (24th ed.). Webster, Acadia.
 
Gazette, 11 Feb. 1802. Charland, “Notre-Dame de Québec: le nécrologe de la crypte,” BRH, 20: 273. Tanguay, Dictionnaire, 6: 295, 300. Royal Fort Frontenac, trans
 
tactics. Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) had fallen in August, however, food supplies were low, Indian allies were deserting, the season was late, and
 
. Leneuf became a sub-lieutenant in 1690. In May 1691, on Buade* de Frontenac’s orders, he went by boat from Quebec
 
Buade* de Frontenac took him along on his 1673 expedition to the pays d’en haut. Later, in 1686, Lenoir was to take part in another official expedition, that led by the Chevalier de
 
in contact with his friends in Canada, particularly with Buade* de Frontenac, who gave him news of the colony in a
 
of lieutenant he took part in Lieutenant-Colonel John Bradstreet*’s expedition which captured and destroyed Fort Frontenac (Kingston
 
permission, Jacques returned to France in 1693 to request letters of pardon. Considering that he received support from Frontenac
 
24 Dec. 1693, which was concluded before Frontenac [Buade*], the protector of the Recollets, for
John Murray Gibbon. In 1927, 1928, and 1930 the quartet was on the program of the Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival, which was held in those years mainly in the Château Frontenac at Quebec. This
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