Kingston and its vicinity . ^HE OLD LIMESTONE CITY OF KINGSTON, crowning the gentle slope of a long promontoryjust where lake and river meet, possesses an interest not common in the New World, that ofhistorical association. Its foundation dates from the old heroic age of Canada, when her brave French pioneers were striving against terrible odds to make the Continent of America a Province ofFrance. Quebec was but a village, and Montreal little more than a stockaded trading post, when thebrave and far-sighted Governor De Frontenac determined to erect a Fur Depot with defences atKatarakoui, the p
Kingston and its vicinity . ^HE OLD LIMESTONE CITY OF KINGSTON, crowning the gentle slope of a long promontoryjust where lake and river meet, possesses an interest not common in the New World, that ofhistorical association. Its foundation dates from the old heroic age of Canada, when her brave French pioneers were striving against terrible odds to make the Continent of America a Province ofFrance. Quebec was but a village, and Montreal little more than a stockaded trading post, when thebrave and far-sighted Governor De Frontenac determined to erect a Fur Depot with defences atKatarakoui, the present sight of Kingston. Founding of |t was in July, 1673, ^at De Frontenac led his long train of canoes and batteaux up the St. Fort Frontenac Lawrence, and through the Thousand Islands, to where the Cataraqui flows out to join the St. Lawrence. The spacious bay, formed by the long tongue on which Kingston stands, is one ofthe most beautiful and agreeable harbors in the world. The primitive stockaded fort of logs was finikingstonitsvicin00unse
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