Excerpt from Directory of the City of Kingston: With Villages of Barriefield, Portsmouth Cataraqui, and Towns of Gananoque Napanee, for 1873-4 World, and was regarded by them as the most important post possessed by them west of Montreal. But British dominion was gradually extend ing northward, from the Atlantic seaboard, where the Saxon first planted his flag of conquest; and on the 27th of August, 1758, Col. Bradstreet surprised and captured the stronghold, The conquest of Quebec, by Wolfe, soon followed, and the whole of this fine country passed under British rule, where it has happily remained ever since. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.