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Cataraqui Cemetery is a non-denominational cemetery located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1850, it predates Canadian Confederation , and continues as an active burial ground. [ 1 ] The cemetery is 91 acres in a rural setting with rolling wooded terrain, ponds and watercourses. [ 2 ]
In 2021 the statue was removed from its original spot at City Park with plans to move it to Cataraqui Cemetery, where Macdonald is buried. [2] [3] In August 2022, the cemetery board voted not to erect the statue. [4] As of August 2023, there were still no plans for the statue. [5]
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In 1828, he married Frances, the second daughter of Mathew Bell.His business partner, William Walker, also married one of Bell's daughters, and their brothers-in-law included Lt.-Colonel John George Irvine (son of James Irvine), a Quebec businessman and The Hon. Edward Greive M.P. James and Frances Forsyth were the grandparents of General Sir Henry Edward Burstall and The Hon. George Irvine.
Fort Frontenac was a French trading post and military fort built in July 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.
Cataraqui may refer to: The original townsite of what is now downtown Kingston, Ontario, as founded 1673 to house a French colonial military outpost. A rural village west of Cataraqui Cemetery, part of the former Kingston Township. Both points are within the current Kingston city limits.
Belle Island was acquired by the City of Kingston in 1956. Although there has never been any development on the island, the area between the island and the west shore of the Cataraqui River, known as Belle Park or Cataraqui Park, was once an extensive marsh that was gradually filled in.
Cataraqui may refer to: Cataraqui (ship) , a ship which was wrecked near King Island, Tasmania, Australia, in 1845 with the loss of 406 lives SS Fort Cataraqui , a 1942 Canadian merchant ship