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built his own sawmill at Fifth Depot Lake in Frontenac County which was destroyed by fire in 1855. Hooper then became a general merchant in Camden East until 1863, when he moved to Napanee and with his
the victory. In the presence of Buade* de Frontenac and the assembled military forces he was not afraid to attribute
 
for the construction of the château and the new fort. Frontenac [Buade*] declared of the château
following year he informed Frontenac [Buade*] that he had held the rank of lieutenant in the Régiment Clairambault; in a
 
the English under William Phips*. In April the following year Governor Frontenac
 
Buade* de Frontenac that he was “a good-for-nothing weakling since he needed a horse to carry him.” In another encounter with the governor recorded by
family’s expanding commercial interests. After graduation in 1906 he played with Kingston’s Frontenac Hockey Club, of which he was president for some
colonial regular troops in the expedition launched by Buade* de Frontenac in the direction of Fort Orange (Albany, N.Y
 
La Salle: the land grant in question bordered on that of the Sieur You, a sergeant in the garrison at Fort Frontenac (Cataracoui, now Kingston, Ont.). Pierre You was later to accompany La
 
Joly-Cœur, had attempted to poison Cavelier* de La Salle at Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.), shortly after Governor
California.” For this ambitious scheme, Talon chose Louis Jolliet; shortly before sailing for France, in 1672, he suggested his candidate to Frontenac [see
 
Buade*, Comte de Frontenac, were carefully briefed by the Marquis de Seignelay, Colbert’s son, who was now in charge of Canadian affairs, on the manner in which they must discharge their new
concluded, in a way that forecast a new attempt before long. In fact, in a letter to Colbert (13 Nov. 1673), Frontenac [see
 
Buade* de Frontenac, who apparently was protecting him, appointed him “process-server and royal serjeant-at-law serving the whole of Canada.” A year later, on 5 Nov. 1674, Genaple appeared before
 Moyne brothers was brought up in France as a page of one of Buade* de Frontenac’s relatives, the Maréchal d’Humières
 
. He returned to Canada only in 1726 when, in quick succession, he was made a lieutenant in the colonial regular troops, commandant at Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.), and in 1727 captain of his own
. As a result of the expansionist policy pursued by Governor Louis de Buade* de Frontenac, far more pelts were being
 
Henry Finkle, a loyalist and founder of the business. Gildersleeve helped in the construction of the Frontenac, which was built at the Finkle yard by Henry Teabout and James Chapman of Sackets
 
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
 
for his frequent acts of generosity and also by Governor Frontenac [Buade*] who, on his deathbed, named him and
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