, arriving at Quebec 13 May.
In June his battalion was ordered to Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) for garrison duty and then took part in the capture of
political career in earnest in 1868 by winning the wardenship of Frontenac County; he won again in 1869 and 1872. In the general election of 1872 he contested Addington, still as an independent Conservative
(Anglican) (St John’s), Reg. of baptisms, 27 April 1807, 7 Sept. 1809, 9 March 1813. Frontenac Land Registry Office (Kingston), Deeds, vol.E, no.276 (mfm. at AO, GS 3928
.
In 1841 Smith was elected to the Legislative Assembly for Frontenac and held the seat until 1861. Through these years he was a moderate Conservative, a supporter of Governor General Sydenham
the group of businessmen who had by 1818 invested almost £16,000 in the steamboat Frontenac [see Henry Gildersleeve
provincial surveyor. Between 1847 and 1865 he laid out a number of township boundaries in the counties of Renfrew, Lanark, Carleton, Frontenac, and Hastings, and in the district of Muskoka. He also supervised
of his wealth. In the early 1850s he obtained extensive timber limits in Hinchinbrooke Township, Frontenac County, from the administration of Francis Hincks and Augustin-Norbert
Price* in designing the Château Frontenac. The coats of arms that decorate this building bear his unmistakable imprint.
Although it had a
surplus: in 1667 and 1668 it exported to the West Indies peas, both green and dried, hops, and barley; in 1672 Frontenac
birthday, he took up two major challenges at Quebec. In 1892 his Pavillon d’Aiguillon, the first clinical wing of the Hôtel-Dieu, was a rival, in the city’s urban landscape, of the Château Frontenac, which
everyone were unanimously in favour of La Touche. On 15 Oct. 1698 Buade* de Frontenac and Champigny
Governor Buade de Frontenac on his journey to Lake Ontario. Although infirm and ill, he
Callière* sent Tareha to Quebec, where Frontenac [see Buade] consented to the exchange. As proof of his sincerity the Indian had presented to the governor a letter from the Jesuit Father
.
In 1682, after the western Iroquois had attacked the French allies, the Illinois and Miamis, Teganissorens came to Montreal and persuaded the governor general, Frontenac
, Agonstot, interceded, however, and persuaded the other Iroquois to set Tonty free.
In July 1684 Tekanoet was taken hostage at Fort Frontenac by
colonial regular troops in the expedition launched by Buade* de Frontenac in the direction of Fort Orange (Albany, N.Y
Jean Bart and Frontenac, Thibault recounted his travels in Le Travailleur of Worcester, Mass., and L’Étendard of Montreal. He dwelt in particular upon the emigrants’ heroic efforts
apparently prevented Thompson from farming extensively; from 1815 until 1855 he taught at common schools in and around the town of Niagara, and for a brief time in Frontenac County. In 1842 and 1843 he may
stand as a moderate reformer in the general election of 1824. In this contest he headed the polls as one of the two members for Frontenac County, and he repeated the performance in the elections of 1828