Excerpt from Richard Cartwright's Letterbook, 1785-1786, which is among the best documentary sources for early commercial history of Kingston. Open at a letter to the Montreal firm of Todd & McGill on the 13th of February 1786.
Regulations forbidding private trade on Lakes Ontario & Erie, threatening forfeiture of canoes, trade goods & furs, & fines of 1500 livres against traders & merchants (Issued by M.Begon).
Commission appointing Sieur de la Gorgendiere to take charge of trade at Fort Frontenac as agent of Jacques Raudot, Intendant of New France, Jan.23,1706.
Photo of the 'Royal Chair' in the parlour of a private home. The Royal Chair was first used in 1879 on the occasion of a visit by the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorne.