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A Conservation Authority is a corporate body, formed by municipal request, under the Conservation Authorities Act of Ontario. Its purpose is to further the conservation, restoration, development, and management of natural resources (excluding gas, oil, coal and minerals) in their areas. Conservation Authority powers are set out in the Conservation Authorities Act, Revised Statutes of Ontario, Chapter 85. An authority’s jurisdiction is based on a watershed (an area of land drained by one stream or river) rather than by political boundaries, since all municipalities through which a river or stream flows, share its resource problems. The Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority was formed, at the request of our member municipalities, in December 1964 by order-in-council and has jurisdiction over 3,506 sq. km (1,354 sq. miles) of land, from Greater Napanee in the west to Brockville in the east. In all, there are ten watersheds in our jurisdiction, the largest ones being the Cataraqui and Gananoque Rivers. Smaller systems include the Collins, Millhaven, Wilton, Little Cataraqui, Lyn, Golden, Buells, and Butler Creeks. The Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority has 17 members appointed by the councils of the 11 municipalities that lie either wholly or partly within the watershed. The CRCA has three Advisory Boards: the Administration and Finance Advisory Board, the Conservation Lands Advisory Board, and the Water Management Advisory Board. Ad hoc committees have been established for Lemoine Point and Parrott's Bay Conservation Areas because they are funded by a special municipal levy. From time to time, the CRCA sets up special sub-committees to study specific issues and provide recommendations to the Board. An Annual General Meeting of the Full Authority is held in January of each year, at which time the chair and vice-chair of the Authority are elected and the members of the Advisory Boards are elected. The Authority’s budget is reviewed at this meeting and is passed at the Full Authority meeting in February. The Full Authority normally meets once per month.

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The name of Chown has been identified with the hardware business in Kingston, Ontario for over a hundred years. In the 1830's, Edwin, George and Arthur Chown learned the tinsmith trade. Edwin and Arthur opened a tin shop in 1845. Two years later they moved to larger quarters and added hardware to their line. During the 1850's Edwin became a partner in Eagle Foundry and sold stoves, ploughs and other agricultural implements along with tin and copper ware. Arthur , in the meantime, dealt in shelf hardware. Towards the end of the fifties Edwin Chown formed a partnership with Henry Cunningham as wholesale and retail hardware merchants. Arthur together with his brother Samuel also was engaged in this line. Samuel eventually established his own business, while Arthur, during the 1880's, took his sons Fred and Oliver into partnership under the name of A. Chown and Company. Chown and Cunningham by then was known as Edwin Chown & Son. In 1938 the various family interests were merged into a Limited Company and operated until 1967.

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The First Congregational Church of Kingston on Wellington Street at Johnson was built in 1865. Tradition has it that there had been a "Union" meeting place in Kingston since about 1810. Those who attended were not Church of England members, but people holding evangelical or independent views: Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists. The various groups that had made up the "Union" body eventually built churches of their own and the land at the corner of Wellington and Johnson was deeded to the Congregational church trustees in 1850. This occurred during the Pastorate of Reverend Kenneth M. Fenwick. For a variety of reasons, the membership of First Congregational Church declined and the members united with the members of Chalmers Church in 1922. In 1923 the church building was sold to the Masonic Order.

The Frontenac Law Association is a branch of the Law Society of Upper Canada. The Association aims to serve its members and the community and to promote the honour, interests and dignity of the legal profession in Frontenac County by; representing and advocating on behalf of its members; supporting and organizing legal education and promoting professional development, ethics, and civility in the practice of law; providing specialized library services to its members; encouraging the highest professional standards, and fostering collegiality among its members; promoting and improving access to legal services for residents of Frontenac County; and advancing the fair and effective administration of justice including communication and cooperation among the Bench, the Law Society, and the community.

In 1867, Confederation in Ontario, then known as old Upper Canada, can be credited to John A. Macdonald, a conservative lawyer from Kingston, and George Brown, a liberal publisher of the influential Toronto Globe newspaper. As a result of their cooperation, a Liberal-Conservative coalition government had been installed in the newborn province of Ontario, headed by J. Sandfield Macdonald. Soon the Liberals in the Legislature, dismayed by Tory scandals, gradually began to act as an opposition, at first under the popular Archibald McKellar, and from 1870 under the brilliant Toronto lawyer Edward Blake. After reducing Sandfield Macdonald's majority in the election of 1871, and defeating him on his railway policy later that year, Blake became the first Liberal Premier of Ontario. Over the years, Ontario has been served by many notable Liberal Premiers including Sir Oilver Mowat, the most successful provincial leader in Canadian history, who won six consecutive general elections and served as Premier for 24 years from 1872 until 1896 when he was named Minister of Justice in Wilfrid Laurier's federal cabinet. More recently, David Peterson's Liberals, riding a wave of unprecedented popular support, surged past Frank Miller's Tories in the election of May 1985. During five years in office, the Peterson Liberal government instituted a long-overdue reformist agenda. Later in 1992, at a dramatic party convention, Lyn McLeod, former Minister of Colleges and Universities, became the first woman to lead a provincial political party in Ontario's history. Following the 1995 election which put Mike Harris and the Tory government in Queen's Park, Lyn McLeod stepped down and was succeeded as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party by Ottawa lawyer Dalton McGuinty.

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The Brockville Loyal Orange Lodge (L.O.L. #1) was established in 1830 by Irish immigrant Ogle Robert Gowan. The Grand Lodge alternated its meetings between Brockville and Toronto until 1844.