.” In retirement, LeSueur began delving into Canadian history. His biography of Governor Frontenac [Buade*] was

respectively, joining the ones of Frontenac [Buade*] (installed in September 1890), Lord Elgin

Greenshields*, who owned the Frontenac Gas Company, Forget created in November of the same year the Quebec Railway, Light, Heat and Power Company. Often referred to as the Quebec merger or Le Merger

death, president of the Frontenac Loan and Investment Society. He believed that banks should serve more than the interests of the wealthy; they might, in fact, benefit all in society. At the Napanee

prehistoric Clearville (Kent County, 1889) and Lawson (Middlesex, 1895) sites, the Southwold (Elgin, 1890) and Parker (Lambton, 1901) earthworks, the Bon Echo pictographs (Frontenac, 1895), and the Rice Lake

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

. It was undoubtedly Price’s next hotel, the Château Frontenac, that brought the Château style into fashion. William Cornelius Van

), 1885–1903, and Canadian White Ribbon Tidings (London, Ont.), 1904–5; RG 80-5, no.1879-009463. NA, RG 31, C1, 1881, Kingston, Frontenac

which his father had prospered, was traditionally conservative. Mowat himself had stood to arms in the Frontenac militia during the rebellion of 1837–38. In 1857 his old principal, Macdonald, was leader

. Casey was best known for his compulsive, lifelong crusade for temperance. He entered the movement at the age of 18. As early as 1856 he was an agent and the treasurer of the Frontenac, Lennox and

& Co. credit ledger, Canada, 25: 225 (mfm. at NA). Frontenac Land Registry Office (Kingston, Ont.), Abstract index to deeds, Barrie Township, concession 8, lot 27; concessions 9–10, lot 28; concession 10

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

. The character depicted is not La Salle, but Parkman. Frontenac [Buade*], the bombastic old courtier and

his own father as Conservative mp for Frontenac, the largely rural riding surrounding Kingston, which he would represent for the next 22 years. During that period he sat

, 50 (1958): 211–18. His own drawing of the house he built on Amherst Island appears in Illustrated historical atlas of the counties of Frontenac

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

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

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

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

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