May 2, 2021:

Kingston in 1827 - View from Barriefield


Picture Source: The Rideau: A Pictorial History of the Waterway, Edited by Adrian G. Ten Cate, Besancourt Publishers, 
ISBN 0-920032-04-4, 1981, page 30, Metropolitan Toronto Library Board.

Keywords: H.M.S. Grampus, Stone Frigate (now the site of RMC), Commodore Barrie - his residence, Fort Frederick, Marine Cottages, 
Marine Hospital, St. George's Anglican Church, Market House, Dean's Schoolhouse, Ordnance Stores, Cataraqui Bridge.




ataraqui Bridge
March 20,2021:

Picture Source: From page 180, 181 of Bartlett's Canada - A pre-Confederation journey, Introduction by Henry C. Campbell, 
Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Library, McLelland and Stewart, 1968, no ISBN.
 
View of Kingston from Fort Henry
A Painting by William Henry Bartlett
Keywords: John Montgomery








March 14, 2021:

This is print number 28 from Selections from Picturesque Canada: An Affectionate Look Back, Pandora Publishing Company, 
Victoria B.C., 1975, no ISBN.

Kingston, Picture from Barriefield Common, c. 1882





March 9, 2021:

I have been doing some research lately on the steamships and their travels in the 1800's between the Lachine Canal 
at Montreal, the City of Ottawa (Bytown) and Kingston (the Rideau Canal) and the City of Kingston (the St. Lawrence Canals). 
See also steamerbackgroundtext.htm. 

Today I discovered the 
Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
53 Yonge Street,
Kingston, Ontario
K7M-6G4


They have over 31,000  pictures of steamboats!



February 19, 2021:

Frontenac at Cataraqui, 1673

Count Frontenac Arrives at Cataraqui in 1673. 
Picture Source: The Rideau: A Pictorial History of the Waterway, Edited by Adrian G. Ten Cate, Besancourt Publishers, 
ISBN 0-920032-04-4, 1981, page 18.

Keywords: A. Sherriff Scott, Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen's University





February 19, 2021:

Here is the first picture (1783) showing what was left of Fort Frontenac in 1783.
Picture Source: The Rideau: A Pictorial History of the Waterway, Edited by Adrian G. Ten Cate, Besancourt Publishers, 
ISBN 0-920032-04-4, 1981, page 33.

Keywords: Cataraqui, De Courselles, Count Frontenac, James Peachey, 60th Regiment





March 5, 2017:

The city of Kingston, Ontario received many thousands of famine immigrants, sent from Montreal during Black '47. Here is a photograph of the 
memorial plaque beside the waterfront in Kingston (St. Mary's Church). 



Here is a book which describes the Roman Catholic community in Kingston, including during the famine years:

Built on a Rock, The Story of the Roman Catholic Church in Kingston, 1826-1976, by Lt. Col. Louis J. Flynn, Published by the Roman Catholic 
Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario, 1976, Printed by Brown and Martin, Kingston (no ISBN).



During the Great Famine (Black '47), families were sent from Grosse Isle, Quebec to Montreal and then on to
local communities which were either on a canal system or where industrialization was taking place and jobs were opening up. In Kingston, Ontario
there was an already established Irish community to assist the new arrivals to integrate into life in Canada. Thousands of Irish labourers had 
worked on the construction of the Rideau Canal between 1827 and 1832 and most had settled along the Canal route, at the dams and lock stations 
between Bytown / Ottawa and Kingston. The families, friends and churches were in place. Aso, Kingston was the gateway to the large settlements 
along the North Shore of Lake Ontario, as far west as Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Falls.





Some of the famine emigrants stayed here in Kingston and others moved up to the Ottawa Valley. 

Here are names of some folks who came from Montreal to Kingston between 1845 and 1847. Most of these folks came with their families.
Beside each name is the number of immigrants who came with each head of family.

John O'Donnell  6
Daniel McCabe  6
John Gunson  4
T. McCann  8
John Lucum  6
Thomas Campbell  5
George Hunter  7 adults
William Thompson  2
John Langan  6  (Lannigan or Lonergan ?)
Wiliam Davis  5
Stephen Cox  4
Thomas Bird  8
Ellen Garen  1
William John Dempsey  1
Tim Mahoney  3
George Conway  3
Thomas Corcoran  1
Anne Delaney  3
Thomas Hays / Hayes  5
James Kearney  3
Thomas Lacey  6
George McCage / McCagg  5
James Collins  5
Margaret Brown  2
Eliza Miligan / Milligan / Mulligan  3
Margaret Steward  4
John Connors  1
Maurice Roche  3
Jane Dareth (Darroch ?)  4
Laue ? Lynch  1
Robert Boyd  2
Nora Meehan  2
Patrick Cassidy  4
Patrick Caley  / Kealey  7
Alick  / Alex Noctor  5
John McCann Kingston 1
Widow Harchey & 8 children   To a brother and sister in Kingston
Darby Connell, wife & 4 children plus sister-in-law  7
Wm. Stacey and family  Going to a brother in Kingston 7
Catherine Donnelin and 2 children  going to her husband in Kingston
John Truin & family going to a brother in Kingston 5
Martha Triblecot & child Kingston to join her husband 2
John Quinn & family  4
Samuel McAddam / McAdam (& family)  9
Dennis Deegan, wife, 7 children  or Cobourg (undecided)
Lawrence Moran and family  10
John Gaherty  3
Mary Kane / Keane  1
James McWhelan and family  9
Daniel Rankin & family  9
Eugene McCarthy & family Kingston to a sister
Cornelius Collins, wife & family  5
John Farrell, wife & family  5
John Fitsimmons / Fitzsimmons, and wife and niece 8
John Sheehan & family  4
John Donovan & family  4
Michael Carthy / McCarthy, sister & brother Kingston 3
Biddy  / Bridget Murphy & family 7
Owen McQuade & wife  2
John Gillick  1 (his sister died at sea)
Bat / Bartholomew Hallinan, wife & 3 children
Catherine Byrnes / Burns and child
Sarah Crawford & sister
Samuel McLean, wife and 8 children
Sarah Bradley
Robert McVanna, wife & 4 children
Patrick Flannery & 3 children
John Mahoney, wife and 4 children
George Young, wife & family
Robert Meathers / Mathers / Meagher / Maher   Sister in Kingston
Biddy / Bridget Donahue & 3 children
Bryan Murmelly, wife & 2 children
Dominick Barrett, wife & child
Michael Lavel / Lavelle, wife & 4 children
John Kane / Keane, wife & child
William Huntay, wife & child
Widow MacKinlin & 2 sons
Emigrant Department
Quebec 6th August 1846.
William Huntay  Was in Hospital three weeks. Buried a child there & is going to Kingston.
J. Harrigan & family
Widow Donly / Donnelly
James Cane / Keane
Patrick Gahan (sometimes spelled here using the Gaelic "Geohagan"
David Rossiter







March 7, 2016:

More names of persons in the fever sheds in Montreal, Quebec on August 31, 1846
                            Name              Destination Males      Females      Children                   
                                                                                  Under 12 



(more names to come ... Al)

Source: Names of Emigrants from the 1845-1847 records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal, Irish Research Group of the 
Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, publication number 94-2, 1994, ISBN 1-55116-72-8. 
This publication (112 pages) is now available from Global Genealogy in either hardcopy format or as a download in .pdf format.

Note: This book covers only the years 1845-47 and therefore does not include the later famine immigrants -- for example, those who came
from the Fitzwilliam Estate in County Wicklow to Kingston as late as 1854.

... Allan Lewis

Map Source: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/Countyatlas/Images/Maps/TownshipMaps/fro-m-kingston.jpg