The sign would have been unnecessary 140 years ago: Kingston was a thriving town on the road that connected Quincy to Jacksonville. Today, Kingston is an unincorporated collection of a half dozen residences south of the highway, a church, a water tower, and a vast, hilly cemetery that contains more than 830 marked graves, a reminder of the town ...
The barges contained 150 passengers with their luggage. May 17th - The steamer Bytown, Bowen, with barges Mary, Iroquois & Kingston in tow, 207 passengers (consignees listed.) Departures for Bytown. May 14th - The steamer Rideau, Drummond, flour for Bytown and sundries for Bytown & the Canal Villages. Departures for Montreal. May 17th - The ...
X-rays first made their appearance in Kingston on February 17, 1896, when the Weekly Whig reported that Captain John Bray Cochrane (1860-1946), Professor of Physics... Read more 1895
Cataraqui was referred to as "the King's Town" or "King's Town" by 1787, in honour of King George III. The name was shortened to "Kingston" in 1788. Cataraqui today is an area around the intersection of Princess Street and Sydenham Road, where the village of Cataraqui (formerly known as Waterloo) was located.
- Canada
- 1673 (as Fort Cataraqui; later renamed Fort Frontenac)
Oct 15, 2020 · Napanee was the only municipality in the area to end its state of emergency, but it had remained under provincial public health orders. “I believe it is time to reinstate the state of emergency ...
- Elliot Ferguson
Kingston Police are looking into taking a harder line with street-level drug dealers in the city who sold fentanyl that caused its users to overdose and die.
For the 10th anniversary of The WhigStandard Magazine in 1989, Reynolds wrote an essay that reiterated its original mission: “We have The Whig-Standard Magazine, a 32-page tabloid dedicated to readers who love to read and reserved for journalism as literature and reserved, further, for our own community, for Kingston.
It was renamed Princess Street in honour of the birth of the Princess Royal in approximately 1840. The portion west of Highway 33, originally well outside the city limits, appears on maps as York Road at least until 1908 and is historically part of the original 1817 Kingston Road from Toronto (which ends in name today in Ajax).
Sep 21, 2020 · Kingston restaurant Curry Original, owned by Ali, pictured, and Weais Afzal, closes on Wednesday after 21 years. (Peter Hendra/The Whig-Standard)
Background. The song is named after Bobcaygeon, Ontario, a town in the Kawartha Lakes region about 160 km (100 mi) northeast of Toronto.The song's narrator works in the city as a police officer, a job he finds stressful and sometimes ponders quitting, but unwinds from the stress and restores his spirit by spending his weekends with a loved one in the rural idyll of Bobcaygeon, where he sees ...