Buade de Frontenac on 26 Oct. 1678 to give an opinion on trafficking in spirits. He expressed himself in favour of bartering with intoxicating liquors, as did the majority of the
seized at Fort Frontenac. In partnership with Charles Catignon, the king’s storekeeper at Quebec, François prospered. During the summer of 1688
Sabrevois*, Sault-Saint-Louis(Caughnawaga, Que.), and Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont). As he proceeded westward, guided by Jacques Hertel de Cournoyer, Charlevoix described his surroundings at every stage
. Buade de Frontenac named him commandant of the south side of the river, from Rivière du Loup to Montreal. On 5 May 1673 he was appointed governor of Acadia, to replace
généalogies des comtés de Beauce-Dorchester-Frontenac, 1625–1946 (11v., Beauceville, Qué., [1949–55]), II. P.-G. Roy, Dates lévisiennes (12v., Lévis, Qué., 1932–40), I, II
exercise great political influence). Joncaire’s network of informants failed to give the alarm that might have saved Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) from capture by John
for himself wherever he chose. This is what Joncaire had been hoping to hear. He hurried to Fort Frontenac, chose eight soldiers, and proceeded directly to Niagara. On the east side of the river, some
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Then, at the beginning of 1673, we find him among the Iroquois, busy preparing for the expedition that Frontenac [see
Buade* de Frontenac’s request, to the rank of half-pay lieutenant, he continued his surveying, building, and general military duties; and
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Casey was best known for his compulsive, lifelong crusade for temperance. He entered the movement at the age of 18. As early as 1856 he was an agent and the treasurer of the Frontenac, Lennox and
death, president of the Frontenac Loan and Investment Society. He believed that banks should serve more than the interests of the wealthy; they might, in fact, benefit all in society. At the Napanee
, Richard Cartwright, “A journey to Canada” (mfm. at QUA). QUA, Richard Cartwright papers; [E. E. Horsey], “Cataraqui, Fort Frontenac, Kingstown, Kingston” (typescript, 1937), 233
to live at Kingston in the summer of 1822, when he was gazetted an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Frontenac militia. It is only in September 1826 however that the first newspaper account of him as
Saint-Joseph-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce (Saint-Joseph, Que.); then from 1753 to 1754 he acted as chaplain at Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.). For some years afterward there is no trace of
* de Frontenac why the Ottawa wavered in their loyalty, pointing out that the Iroquois, by a series of raids, had seemed to demonstrate that the French could hardly defend themselves much less aid their
the Cataraqui division, a large constituency that included Kingston and all of Frontenac and Addington counties; he served as speaker of the council from February to May 1863. In late 1861, when
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Like his father before him, Calvin was reeve and magistrate on Garden Island; he also served on the Frontenac County Council for 12
Frontenac County after it was separated from the county of Lennox and Addington in 1863. Three years later Garden Island was incorporated as a village and Calvin was routinely acclaimed reeve for the
, Governor Buade* de Frontenac intervened little in the affairs of the upper colony and spent most of his time in Quebec