Buade* de Frontenac, who apparently was protecting him, appointed him “process-server and royal serjeant-at-law serving the whole of Canada.” A year later, on 5 Nov. 1674, Genaple appeared before

construction of the Frontenac, which was built at the Finkle yard by Henry Teabout and James Chapman of Sackets Harbor, N.Y., where Gildersleeve is reputed to have worked as a shipwright about 1815

Kingston from Gildersleeve (part of Portland, Conn.) in 1816, and developed a flourishing shipping and shipbuilding business. He helped construct the Frontenac, the first steamboat on Lake Ontario

Saint-Vallier issued a pastoral letter which was distinctly unfavourable to the plays staged by Buade* de Frontenac in

, Buade de Frontenac commended him to the king’s generosity, as “one of the first to have come to this colony . . . , burdened with a very large family, having several daughters

Frontenac allowed Vieuxpont to enlarge his seigneury by granting him a new concession on 23 Aug. 1674. It consisted of 15 acres, comprising the territory stretching “from the third to the fourth

. Father Millet was captured in 1689 by the Onondagas, during the siege of Fort Frontenac. He was handed over to the Oneidas and taken to their chief town. Gouentagrandi went out to greet him as he neared

who were hostile to the premier. During a meeting on 8 February at the Château Frontenac, a clear majority of the Liberal

to Canada as provincial commissioner and lived in Quebec. He was Governor Buade* de Frontenac’s confessor and was

that he had been a prisoner at the old French Fort Frontenac (Cataraqui) during the Seven Years’ War, and thus, towards the end of the revolution, when the British commandant at New York City, Sir

Buade* de Frontenac’s guards, perhaps introduced him to the governor. Frontenac already knew that the Lake Superior area was a virtually untapped source of prime beaver pelts. In 1676, he had sent

]. He then served at Fort Frontenac under the orders of his father, whom he ultimately replaced. In 1690 he took part in operations around Quebec with a party of Hurons from the mission at Lorette. On 11

[Brisay] appointed him commander of Fort Frontenac (Cataracoui), replacing Dauphin de La

Midland Agricultural Society, and vice-president of the Frontenac Agricultural Society. Most aspirants to a genteel life in Upper Canada required

Buade de Frontenac by Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix*], although without justification

Frontenac, from Henry Gildersleeve* for about £1,500 in January 1825 to add to a new but smaller steamer which they had built, the

for his frequent acts of generosity and also by Governor Frontenac [Buade*] who, on his deathbed, named him and

Ontario to replace Father Léonard Duchesne at Cataracoui (Fort Frontenac, now Kingston, Ont.). Hennepin’s activity never flagged; with his confrère Luc Buisset, he built a “mission house” which was

Buade* de Frontenac on an expedition to Lake Ontario, and took part in the building of Fort Frontenac (Cataracoui, now Kingston, Ont.). In 1678 he was sent by the authorities on a mission to Hudson

storekeeper at Fort Chambly, south of Montreal, for the next two years. In 1708 he replaced Alphonse Tonty* as commandant of Fort Frontenac (Kingston