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ID: 7017654
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017654
Record Type:
administrative
Kingston (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 44 14 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 44.2333
decimal degrees
Long: 076 30 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -76.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in SE Ontario; trading post and fort ruined by British in 1758; resettled by United Empire Loyalists in 1783; used as base for British naval force on Lake Ontario during War of 1812; produces ships, mining equipment and ceramics.
Names:
Kingston
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Cataraqui
(
H
,
V
)
............
original Amerindian settlement before late 17th cen.
Fort Frontenac
(
H
,
V
)
............
name of French fort founded here in 1673
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ontario
(province) (
P
)
................
Kingston
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
originally settled by Amerindians, trading post & military fort founded by Louis de Buade late 17th cen.
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
Original capital of Canada
fort (
H
)
............
mid-18th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Cataraqui..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 877-878
Fort Frontenac..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
343
Kingston..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
1:480
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
6:877-878
.................
National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-567303
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
101
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 480; 1:480
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 877-878; 6:877-878
..................
National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-567303
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
101
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
343
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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