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

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

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

, 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

, 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

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

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

. 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

. 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

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

. 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

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

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

. 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

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

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

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

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