politicians of the period, Roblin entered politics through municipal channels. He was Richmond Township’s first reeve (1841–57), and served as first warden (1849–57) of the United Counties of Frontenac and

Sampson had been commander of the town guard until the militia was called up, and as major of the 3rd Regiment of Frontenac militia he was a member of the court martial at Fort Henry which condemned Nils

. 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

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

. Sherbrooke County in 1850 included not the town but the present counties of Richmond, Wolfe, Compton, and Frontenac; only 15 per cent of the population was French Canadian. Sanborn was opposed by Chester B

. Throughout his active years Barker was influential in the masonic lodge, the St George’s Society, the mechanics’ institute, and the Frontenac County agricultural and horticultural societies. He was also a

Montreal and now the Frontenac apartments. Browne also built three round-cornered commercial buildings, the Mowat Building (now destroyed), Wilson’s Buildings, and Commercial Mart. All are Tuscan and

Frontenac County after it was separated from the county of Lennox and Addington in 1863. Three years later Garden Island was incorporated as a village and Calvin was routinely acclaimed reeve for the

Correctional Staff College (Kingston, Ont.), Canadian Penitentiary Service Museum, Warden John Creighton’s journal, 1870–74 (mfm. at QUA). PAC, RG 31, A1, 1861 census, Frontenac County. QUA, Corporation of

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

, Canada West, where, with his brother Augustus Frederick Garland Hooper, he engaged in lumbering operations on the Napanee River. He later built his own sawmill at Fifth Depot Lake in Frontenac County which

, Les avocats de la région de Québec, 146. Frère Éloi-Gérard [Talbot], Recueil des généalogies des comtés de Beauce-Dorchester-Frontenac, 1625–1946 (11v., Beauceville, Qué., 1949–55), I

explicitly. Those who followed the example of Governor Frontenac [Buade*] and wanted to ensure the supremacy of the state

Ontario up to the time of the launching of the steamship Frontenac, at Ernesttown, Ontario, 7th September, 1816,” OH, 23 (1926): 33–44. C. H. J. Snider, “Mighty Maltese 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

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

Peterborough counties” in the Geological Survey of Canada, Report of progress for 1866–69 (Montreal, 1870), 143–71; “Abstract of a report on the geology of parts of the counties of Frontenac, Leeds, and

government for the hospital as one serving “the mariners on the Lakes.” He also secured increased grants from the province and campaigned annually for small grants from Frontenac County and nearby villages

the Cataraqui division, a large constituency that included Kingston and all of Frontenac and Addington counties; he served as speaker of the council from February to May 1863. In late 1861, when