A CORNER OF EMPIRE— THE OLD ONTARIO STRAND By T.
R. Glover and D. D. Calvin
Kingston, Ontario, the seat of Queen's University, stands on the site of the French Fort Frontenac, where the St. Lawrence leaves Lake Ontario. It was a strategic position of importance, protecting the route from Canada to the French posts on the Mississippi and overawing the Indian tribes. Its capture by Bradstreet in 1-758 cut New France in two. The failure of the Ameri- cans to take it in the war of 1812-14 was not less decisive. Dr. Glover and Mr. Calvin in their pleasant book (Cambridge University Press, 8s. 6d.) are concerned less with bygone wars than with reminiscences of old Kingston, of the skippers on the lake and the hardy men who steered timber rafts down the river, and of the university and its greatest figure, G. M. Grant. Queen's has always drawn many of its teachers from Great Britain, and Canadian letters owe much to the work of its staff. This engaging and well-illustrated book will make the university still better known here.
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