. In 1755 he accompanied the Régiment de Béarn to Canada. Landing at Quebec on 19 June, he was sent to Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) and at that point began to keep a record of his regiment’s

and the French commanders of Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.). His supposed friendship with the British did not, however, prevent him from accepting from Governor Vaudreuil

Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.). He made several trips to the pays d’en haut, including one in 1729 when he led the provisioning convoy from Montreal into Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich

 Galissonière, the commandant general of New France, informed Maurepas that Picquet would soon leave for Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) to find the best place to locate a village for Indians seeking Christian

. Raymond was the most flamboyant governor of a Canadian colony between Frontenac [Buade*] and Lord Durham

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

with an advance party of the KRRNY, constructed barracks amongst the ruins of old Fort Frontenac, and built saw and flour mills. Ross recommended the purchase of land in the area from the Mississauga

his death. During his stay in Kingston in 1792 White had been elected to the House of Assembly as the member for Leeds and Frontenac. He and the

. 12 Feb. 1735 at Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.), son of Pierre Boucher

, Richard Cartwright, “A journey to Canada” (mfm. at QUA). QUA, Richard Cartwright papers; [E. E. Horsey], “Cataraqui, Fort Frontenac, Kingstown, Kingston” (typescript, 1937), 233

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

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

Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.). Vaudreuil wanted the fort, which had been destroyed by John Bradstreet* in August 1758, rebuilt as a supply

Canadian House of Assembly for the riding of Leeds and Frontenac. Although not a prominent political figure, he was a conscientious representative, patiently dealing with the petitions and claims of his

municipal government and another established in 1832 to alleviate the effects of the cholera epidemic. His name was put forward in 1834 as the Frontenac County candidate for election to the legislature, and

, 275, 548–49, 551–52, 554, 676, 688A, 789–90, 1168, 1203 1/2H, 1218, 1707, 1858, 1860. PRO, W013/4376; WO 31, bundle 219. QUA, Frontenac County land reg. copy books, book C, F-145, instrument 315

steamboat Frontenac. The Frontenac was not the first steamboat in the Canadas; that honour goes to the Accommodation, constructed in Montreal in 1809 for John

. 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

the group of businessmen who had by 1818 invested almost £16,000 in the steamboat Frontenac [see Henry Gildersleeve

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