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                  Buade de Frontenac. After a stay at Quebec and Montreal, he had continued on to France. This then constituted Joseph Robinau’s
                   
                  English and established close relations with the Abenaki Indian tribes. During the winter of 1689–90 Buade* de Frontenac
                   
                  Mississaugas, to trade with the French and thus dissuade them from taking their furs to the English at Fort Oswego (Chouaguen). Pierre Robinau de Portneuf, who was an ensign at Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) at
                   
                  . Buade* de Frontenac requested a lieutenant’s commission for him, and this was granted him on 3 April 1696. He then commanded small ships fitted out for fighting privateers and for protecting
                   
                   Poterie, on 7 July 1671. Governor Buade de Frontenac, on 23 March 1677, also
                   
                  . Buade* de Frontenac wrote to the minister in 1690 that, subject to royal confirmation, he had named “Sieur Robineau Becancour the older son to replace Sr. [René] Robineau de Portneuf the
                  the governors and intendants of the colony. Buade* de Frontenac and Duchesneau favoured Riverin. Their successors
                  impressed by his zeal and his devotion to his duties. Frontenac [Buade*] praised his “incredible diligence” during the
                  inspection of Lake Ontario. From Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) they skirted the north shore of the lake, examining possible sites for future forts. At Fort Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.) they held a
                   
                  . But before retiring to the life of country squire, Richardson once again took up command of a vessel. On 9 May 1818, less than a year after the Frontenac (the first Canadian-built
                  provincial royal commission on mineral resources in 1889 indicates his familiarity with local mining activities. He claimed then to “have seen nearly all the mines in the Frontenac section and [to] have
                  family’s expanding commercial interests. After graduation in 1906 he played with Kingston’s Frontenac Hockey Club, of which he was president for some
                   
                  appointed sergeant in the Canadian forces, in which rank he accompanied governor Frontenac [see
                   
                  against the Seneca, and on 19 July signed the document recording the taking over of their country. Frontenac [see
                   
                  . In October 1696 Frontenac [Buade*] granted him a piece of land in Acadia, but he did not farm it. It was as the
                  , and Reed accepted the position of manager of the Château Frontenac, the Canadian Pacific Railway hotel in Quebec City. By 1905 Reed was manager-in-chief of the CPR’s hotel department. Van Horne, aware
                   
                  . Raymond was the most flamboyant governor of a Canadian colony between Frontenac [Buade*] and Lord Durham
                   
                  . Jean Delanglez, Frontenac and the Jesuits (Chicago, 1939), 65. Hamelin, Économie et société en N.-F. F. M. Hammang, The Marquis de Vaudreuil, New France at the
                   
                  engineer in Governor Buade de Frontenac’s service, soldier, cartographer, and architect of
                  as a means of achieving social status. Hosting the colony’s dignitaries and being referred to as a “real gentleman” by Governor Frontenac
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