Appendix 1: Main Historical Figures

Appendix 1

MAIN HISTORICAL FIGURES

Henry Francis Ainslie (1803–79), British Army lieutenant-colonel and artist James Edward Alexander (1803–85), British Army captain and commandant at Fort Frederick, later general Jeffery Amherst (1717–97), British Army major-general, later field marshal and governor general of British North America (1760–63) John Armstrong (1758–1843), U.S. secretary of war (1813–14)

Charles Bagot (1781–1843), British ambassador to the United States (1815–20), governor general of Province of Canada (1842–43) William Baker, Jr., Point Frederick joiner and cabinetmaker William Baker, Sr., Provincial Marine captain David James Ballingall (1798–1864), Royal Marines captain Robert Barclay (1786–1837), Royal Navy captain Julia (“Juno”) Barrie, daughter of Robert and Julia Barrie Julia Wharton Ingilby Barrie (1794–1836), wife of Robert Barrie Robert Barrie (1774–1841), Royal Navy captain and Point Frederick commissioner and commodore, later rear-admiral

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William Barrie (1817–73), son of Robert and Julia Barrie Henry Wolsey Bayfield (1795–1885), Royal Navy lieutenant and surveyor David Beaton, Royal Navy and Provincial Marine commodore Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862), German and

Dutch soldier and travel writer Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1791–1847), British Army lieutenant-colonel Jean-Baptiste Bouchette (1736–1804), Provincial Marine master and commander Joseph Bouchette (1774–1841), Provincial Marine surveyor and Lower

Canada militia lieutenant-colonel John Bradstreet (1714–74), British Army lieutenant-colonel, later major-general William Bray, former Royal Navy gunner Isaac Brock (1769–1812), British Army major-general Jacob Brown (1775–1828), U.S. Army major general Alexander Bryce (1766–1832), British Army lieutenant, later major-general Joseph Bunbury (circa 1773–1802), British Army captain, later lieutenant-colonel Henry Dilkes Byng (1781–1860), Royal Navy captain, later vice-admiral

Patrick Campbell (circa 1765–1823), Scottish soldier and travel writer Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester (1724–1808), governor of Quebec (1768–78), governor-in-chief of the Canadas (1786–96) Richard Cartwright (1759–1815), Upper Canada businessman based in

Kingston Samuel de Champlain (circa 1567–1635), French explorer and founder of

Quebec Isaac Chauncey (1772–1840), U.S. Navy commodore Edward Collier (1783–1872), Royal Navy captain John Collins (?–1797), British acting surveyor general of Quebec George Colls (?–1836), Point Frederick surgeon James Craig (1748–1812), governor-in-chief of the Canadas (1807–11)

Duncan Darroch (circa 1776–1847), British Army major-general John Dennis (1758–1832), Provincial Marine master shipwright in York and Kingston Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville (1637–1710), governor general of

New France (1685–89)

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Charles Dickens (1812–70), British author who visited Kingston and Point

Frederick in 1842 Gordon Drummond (1772–1854), British Army lieutenant-general, lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (1813–14), governor general of the

Canadas (1815–16) Robert Drummond (1791–1834), construction contractor, shipbuilder, and brewer

Hugh Earl (?–1841), Provincial Marine commodore Henry Eckford (1775–1832), U.S. master shipwright

Robert Finnis (1783–1813), Royal Navy captain William Fowell (1803–68), Royal Navy lieutenant, later captain and commander at Point Frederick Edward Frome (1802–90), British Army lieutenant, surveyor, and artist Louis de Baude, comte de Frontenac (1622–98), governor general of New

France (1672–82, 1689–98)

John Goudie (1775–1824), master shipbuilder at Quebec and Point

Frederick Andrew Gray (?–1813), Provincial Marine captain and deputy quartermaster general

Frederick Haldimand (1718–91), British Army lieutenant-general and governor of Quebec (1778–86) Robert Hall (1778–1818), Royal Navy commissioner and commodore Amelia Harris (1798–1882), mapmaker and wife of John Harris John Harris (1782–1850), Royal Navy master and surveyor George Head (1782–1855), British Army officer and travel writer Edward Osborne Hewett (1835–97), British Army lieutenant-colonel, later lieutenant-general, first commandant of the Royal Military College (1876–86) Samuel Holland (1728–1801), British Army major and surveyor general of

Quebec John Howison (1797–1859), Upper Canada traveller and writer Peter Hunter (1746–1805), lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (1799–1805)

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D.T. Irwin (1843–1928), Canadian Militia major, later lieutenant-colonel George Izard (1776–1828), U.S. Army major general

William Johnson (1715–74), British Army major-general and superintendent of Indian affairs Bill Johnston (1782–1870), pirate and Upper Canada rebel William Jones, U.S. secretary of the navy (1813–14)

Lewis Kotté (active 1783–91), British Army lieutenant and Quebec deputy surveyor

Pierre de La Brocquerie, French-Canadian mapmaker and Provincial

Marine captain René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643–87), French explorer René-Hippolyte Laforce (1728–1802), French-Canadian mapmaker and

Provincial Marine captain, later commodore Jean de Lamberville (1633–1714), French missionary John Lambton, Lord Durham (1792–1840), governor general of British

North America (1838–39) John Langton (1808–94), first auditor of the Province of Canada and first auditor general of the Dominion of Canada Edward Laws, Point Frederick naval storekeeper and acting commissioner John Le Couteur (1794–1875), British Army lieutenant, later colonel Thomas Lewis, surgeon at Point Frederick

John A. Macdonald (1815–91), lawyer for William Bray and insurgent Nils von Schoultz, later first prime minister of Canada (1867–73, 1878–91) Alexander Mackenzie (1822–92), Point Frederick stonemason, later second prime minister of Canada (1873–78) Holt Mackenzie (?–1813), British Army major in charge of Provincial

Marine William Lyon Mackenzie (1795–1861), Toronto mayor (1834–35), journalist, and rebel Peregrine Maitland (1777–1854), lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (1818–28)

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Gother Mann (1747–1830), British Army general and engineer John Marks (1777–1872), Royal Navy purser and later victualler at Point

Frederick Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712–59), French commander of the army in

New France Thomas Mossington (1780–1864), Royal Navy shipwright William Howe Mulcaster (1783–1837), Royal Navy captain

Richard O’Conor, Royal Navy captain and acting commissioner Edward Campbell Owen (1771–1849), Royal Navy commodore William Fitz William (“Fitz”) Owen (1774–1857), Royal Navy captain

Charles Parker, Royal Marines lieutenant Charles de Plantavit, Chevalier de La Pause (1721–1804), French army captain, later major-general Thomas Paxton (?–1804), Provincial Marine lieutenant James Peachey (?–1797), British Army ensign, later captain, artist, and surveyor Desmond Piers (1913–2005), Royal Canadian Navy rear admiral and Royal

Military College commandant and commodore (1957–60) George Plucknett, master shipbuilder at York (Toronto) Pierre Pouchot (1712–69), French army engineer and captain Robert Prescott (circa 1726–1815), governor-in-chief of the Canadas (1796–1807) George Prévost (1767–1816), governor-in-chief of the Canadas (1811–15) Daniel Pring (circa 1788–1846), Royal Navy captain Alleyne Pye, Deputy quartermaster general and British Army lieutenant-colonel

George Record, master shipbuilder at Point Frederick James Richardson, Jr. (1791–1875), Provincial Marine lieutenant James Richardson, Sr. (circa 1759–1832), Provincial Marine captain Frederick Robinson (1763–1852), lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (1815) François-Alexandre-Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747–1827),

French travel writer

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John Ross (1744–1809), British Army major Francis de Rottenburg (1757–1832), British Army major-general and lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (1813) Richard Rush (1780–1859), U.S. acting secretary of state (1817) and negotiator of Rush-Bagot Agreement

Williams Sandom (circa 1785–1858), Royal Navy captain and commodore, later rear-admiral Charles Sangster (1822–93), poet and journalist John Schank (1740–1823), Royal Navy lieutenant, first head of the Provincial

Marine, later captain and admiral Nils von Schoultz (1807–38), Finnish-Swedish military officer and leader of

U.S. Patriot Hunters Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe (1762–1850), artist, diarist, and wife of John

Graves Simcoe John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806), lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (1791–96) John Richard Coke Smyth (1808–82), artist in the employ of Lord Durham John Steel (circa 1737–1826), Provincial Marine commodore

Charles Thomson, Lord Sydenham (1799–1841), governor general of British

North America (1839–41) William Twiss (1745–1827), British Army lieutenant and engineer, later general

Alexander Thomas Emeric (A.T.E.) Vidal (1792–1863), Royal Navy surveyor and lieutenant, later vice-admiral Emeric Essex (E.E.) Vidal (1791–1868), Royal Navy artist and secretary

Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, Lord Aylmer (1775–1850), governor general of

Canada (1830–35) James Wilkinson (1757–1825), U.S. Army major general David Wingfield (circa 1792–1864), Royal Navy lieutenant James Wolfe (1727–59), British Army major-general

James Lucas Yeo (1782–1818), Royal Navy commodore