Nancy Foster    

All for a Beaver Hat

The tour will acquaint you with our beginnings, our fortifications, and the powerful influence of the refugees from the American Revolution -- their homes, their ideas and their influence on the structure of Canada.

The junction of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario was the key to Canadian development. For Frontenac (1673) as built here by the French to divert furs from the English. Later the decaying fort became a staging area for the settlement of the United Empire Loyalists.

No tour of Kingston would be complete without an introduction to the life of Kingston's Sir John A. Macdonald. While not a Loyalist, his influence was formative. Our tour concludes at the Statue of Sir John in City Park.

Tours

Tours take place Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday and holiday Mondays, at 2 p.m.
FRIDAYS ARE FREE and are led by Andrew Hill, Heritage Property Researcher.
All guides are costumed and welcome pictures.
Adults -------------------------------------------- $15.00
Child under 16 -------------------------------- $7.00
Family ------------------------------------------- $30.00

Please dress for the weather. Tours will be cancelled in case of really inclement weather.
Tickets can be purchased at the Tourism Information Office or from the costumed guide 15 minutes prior to the walk.

This is your guide wearing a hoop skirt. They making walking very difficult and therefore would only be used by the very rich or on special occasions.

This is your guide wearing the more relaxed, and down market, cotton dress of the early 19th century. This would have been worn by working women There were no 'bad hair days' in the 19th century when you could cover it with a bonnet.

This is City Hall, one of the most important Victorian buildings in Canada. This, Fort Henry and Kingston MIlls Lock are 'must sees'. City Hall has free tours. On the far left is Herchmer House an important city building which figures in our tour.

This is the Wolfe Island ferry, the best way (and the cheapest - it's free!) to see the Kingston fortifications. On the return journey the west side willl give you a good look at Kingston. Bon Voyage!

This is why we are here. in Kingston. You can see the junction of Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River and the Cataraqui River - now the Rideau Canal.

Tours take place Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday and holiday Mondays, at 2 p.m.
FRIDAYS ARE FREE and are led by Andrew Hill, Heritage Property Researcher.
All guides are costumed and welcome pictures.
Adults ------------------------ $15.00
Child under 16 ------------ $7.00
Family ----------------------- $30.00

Please dress for the weather. Tours will be cancelled in case of really inclement weather.
Tickets can be purchased at the Tourism Information Office or from the costumed guide 15 minutes prior to the walk.



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