Kingston sits amid excellent cruising and boating territory, with easy access to Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and the Thousand Islands including the St. Lawrence Islands National Park. [21] The survey would also determine whether Cataraqui was suitable as a navy base since nearby Carleton Island on which a British navy base was located had been ceded to the Americans after the war. In the early hours of April 18, 1840, a dock fire, fanned by high winds, spread to a warehouse containing between 70 and 100 kegs of gunpowder. S Kingston Burlington, ON L7L 4R1. The Kingston campus of St. Lawrence College was established in 1969, and the college has 6,700 full-time students. Subsequently, Kingston's growth slowed considerably and its national importance declined. "List of Major Regattas in Kingston – Kingston, Ontario waterfront", "Scuttlebutt News Center: Best Racing Venues in the US", OnGolf.ca – Kingston Golf Courses – Ontario Canada, CurlingRink.ca – Kingston Curling Clubs and Rinks – Kingston, Ontario, "The Kingston Whig-Standard – November 1, 2018", Kingston Before the War of 1812: A Collection of Documents, Census metropolitan areas (CMAs) in Canada by size, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kingston,_Ontario&oldid=978369721, Populated places on Lake Ontario in Canada, Populated places on the Saint Lawrence River, Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments, Articles with dead external links from December 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with dead external links from June 2016, All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English, Pages using infobox settlement with possible motto list, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 1998 (with Kingston and Pittsburgh Townships), Simon Chapelle – Loyalist-Cataraqui District, Mary Rita Holland – Kingscourt-Rideau District, Jeff McLaren – Meadowbrook-Strathcona District, J. E. Agnew Food Services Ltd. (operates several, Tim Horton's Inc. Distribution Centre 259. Fur trappers and traders were spreading out from their centres of operation in New France. [26][27] The first name given to the settlement by the Loyalists was King's Town, which would eventually develop into the current appellation.[9]. It was the base for the Lake Ontario division of the Great Lakes British naval fleet, which engaged in a vigorous arms race with the American fleet based at Sackets Harbor, New York for control of Lake Ontario. Kingston is a Canadian city in Eastern Ontario located where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario, and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River (south end of the Rideau Canal).It is located midway between Toronto and Montreal,. One of his residences in Kingston, Bellevue House, is now a popular National Historic Site of Canada open to the public, and depicting the house as it would have been in the 1840s when he lived there. Unique opportunities are presented for this industry in this time of shifting travel trends and the baby boomer generation. The French, and later, the British established military garrisons. Kingston is the site of two universities, Queen's University and the Royal Military College of Canada, and a community college, St. Lawrence College. All still exist, and Fort Henry is a popular tourist attraction. [19] Kingston had the largest population of any centre in Upper Canada until the 1840s. In the five years between 1996 and 2001, the population of Kingston grew by 1.6%, compared with an increase of 6.1% for Ontario as a whole.