beginning of 1838 his force consisted of the Fort Henry workers, whom he had armed, militia from the counties around Kingston, the élite Kingstonians serving in the Frontenac Light Dragoons, a detachment of

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

by tories to block his election; he dropped out at the last minute to ensure Hagerman’s defeat. When he did manage to take one of the two Frontenac seats in the reform wave of 1828, he was seen by many

maître d’hôtel to Governor Frontenac

two commanding officers at the battle of the Plains of Abraham and dedicated on 8 Sept. 1828, the column is a few steps from where the Château Frontenac now stands

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

in two steamships on Lake Ontario, the Frontenac, launched in 1816 [see James McKenzie*], and the St

and Company of London [see Samuel Gerrard*], acting as agents for the owners of the Frontenac (a paddle-wheel vessel then

militia provided another outlet for his energies. He had enrolled in the local unit by 1791 and quickly rose to the rank of captain, a position he held in the flank company of the 1st Frontenac Militia

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

candidates. One, Thomas Dalton* in Frontenac, believed that Upper Canada needed to be saved from the oppression of the pro-administration group

 22, ser.159, 1808–59, no.259. Cataraqui Cemetery Company (Kingston), Burial record. Frontenac Land Registry Office (Kingston), Loughborough Township, abstract index to deeds, concession 8, lot 24 (mfm

(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

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

Frontenac County Registry Office (Kingston, Ont.), abstract of town lot 4. Daily News (Kingston), 19 Feb . 1861 – 7 Feb. 1868. Mitchell & Co.’s Canada classified

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

served in 1812 as a private in the 1st Regiment of Frontenac militia but in 1813 was imprisoned at Kingston on suspicion of being an American

bank’s largest debtors. Kirkpatrick was a staunch Conservative who was influential in Kingston and Frontenac County politics; he took an active

the ministry. During the War of 1812 he served as an ensign in a company of Frontenac militia commanded by his uncle, Lawrence Herchmer (Herkimer

. Morton continued to be popular in Kingston. Through the influence of Macdonald he was elected to the assembly for Frontenac in 1861, defeating Sir Henry