Royal Fort Frontenac

Toronto: The Champlain Society for the Government of Ontario, University of Toronto Press, c. 1958. Binding: Contemporary red cloth with gilt text and rules on spine. , Notes: This book is about the history surrounding the famous Fort Frontenac, a French trading post and military fort built in 1673 at the mouth of the Cataraqui River where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario (at what is now the western end of the La Salle Causeway), in a location traditionally known as Cataraqui. It is the present-day location of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The original fort, a crude, wooden palisade structure, was called Fort Cataraqui but was later named for Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (Count Frontenac), who was responsible for building the fort. , Size: 8vo (235x160mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with a colour photograph of Louis Henri Buade, the Governor of New France from 1672-1682 and 1689-1698. , Category: Book Canada; Book History. The book is in very good condition. Item #B5264

Binding: Contemporary red cloth with gilt text and rules on spine. , Notes: This book is about the history surrounding the famous Fort Frontenac, a French trading post and military fort built in 1673 at the mouth of the Cataraqui River where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario (at what is now the western end of the La Salle Causeway), in a location traditionally known as Cataraqui. It is the present-day location of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The original fort, a crude, wooden palisade structure, was called Fort Cataraqui but was later named for Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (Count Frontenac), who was responsible for building the fort. , Size: 8vo (235x160mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with a colour photograph of Louis Henri Buade, the Governor of New France from 1672-1682 and 1689-1698. , Category: Book Canada; Book History.

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