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Y. Cosineau was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

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Playwright John Coulter was born in 1888 in Belfast. He attended the School of Art and Technology in Belfast, and Manchester University. Upon returning to Ireland, he taught school in Belfast and Dublin until 1919. His early plays were produced in Belfast, Dublin, and London, and he moved to London in 1920, where he wrote for BBC radio. In 1924 he became editor of The Ulster Review, and in 1927, managing editor of John Middleton Murry’s journal The New Adelphi. In London, he met his Canadian wife, the poet, Olive Clare Primrose, and moved with her to Canada in 1936. In later years they divided their time between Ireland and Canada. His most famous work is his trilogy of plays about Louis Riel, published 1950-1960. He died on 1 December 1980.

George Gordon Coulton was born at King's Lynn in 1858. After some early schooling at Lynn and at the lycee at St.Omer (France) he was sent to Felsted school. In 1877 he went to St.Catherine's College, Cambridge as a scholar and went down with an aegrotat degree. After a brief period as a preparatory schoolmaster he read for holy orders, was ordained deacon in 1883 and priest in the following year.However after a short period he felt himself unable to continue and accepted posts is various public schools, with a happy interval of sixteen months in a private school in Heidelberg(Germany). Overwork while at Dulwich College brought on a breakdown in 1895. On his recovery he joined a friend who ran a coaching establishment at Eastbourne where for the next thirteen years he worked happily in conditions which gave him freedom to pursue his own studies. By this time he had determined to devote his energies to the serious study of medieval life and thought, and in particular to the working of the ecclesiastical system and he began to put out such books as From St.Francis to Dante (1906) and Chaucer and His England (1908) into which he poured some of the considerable knowledge he had acquired. His growing reputation was enhanced by the appointment as Birkbeck Lecturer in ecclesiastical history conferred on him by Trinity College, Cambridge in 1910, and as a result of this he decided to migrate to Cambridge to set up as a free-lance lecturer and coach the following year. In 1919 he was elected into what was then the sole university lectureship in English, and a little later in the same year he was made a Fellow of St.John's College. From then onwards, save for the years 1940-44 when he was a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto, his life was spent in Cambridge where he produced an unending flow of works and enjoyed a growing reputation both as a scholar and as an ever-ready adviser to those who sought his aid in matters historical. Coulton received the honorary degree of D.Litt. from Durham University (1920) and of LL.D. from Edinburgh (1931) and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1942). He was elected a Fellow of the British Association in 1929 and an Honorary Fellow of St.Catherine's College in 1922. He died at Cambridge in 1947.

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An important cartographic genre of the second half of the 19th century, the description of Canada was enriched with the appearance of the county map. Appearing at the time of agricultural and urban development, when few detailed representations of the settled regions existed, the county maps were popular because of their beauty, their detail and their close links with the local communities. Counties, townships, towns and villages, roads, buildings and the names of the owners or occupants of farms are shown. The maps also contain lists of businessmen and local merchants, insets of towns, and vignettes of major buildings of the county.

As one of the earliest settled areas in Ontario, the area comprising Frontenac County has evolved through every stage of municipal growth in over two hundred years of recorded history. The Loyalists settled in the first municipal areas, survey units called townships. As it was necessary to provide for the maintenance of law and order and the settlement of minor disputes, a number of magistrates, by an ordinance of 1785, were given limited civil jurisdiction The Loyalists, however, were accustomed to a substantial amount of great local automony. To satisfy these concerns and to provide for a rudimentary judicial and administrative system for the new settlers, Lord Dorchester, the Governor-in-Chief, divided the area into four Districts (Luneberg, Mecklenburg, Nassau and Hesse). At the same time he appointed judges of the Court of Common Pleas, justices of the peace, a sheriff, a clerk for the Court of Common Pleas, and of the sessions of the peace, and coroners in each district.

As early as 1800, certain townships -- for example, Amherst, Simcoe, Wolfe and Howe Islands, were added to the Frontenac County responsibilities. From time to time, certain townships were withdrawn and administered by other county jurisdictions. With the Act of Union in 1841 municipal government was established in Canada. Thus, from 1842 the Midland District Municipal Council administered this area of present-day Ontario. The Council consisted of twenty members. John Bennett Marks became the first Warden of the Midland District Council. This system of municipal government remained in effect until the passage of the Municipal Act of 1849 which is commonly called "the Baldwin Act."

In 1850 the United Counties of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington came into being. The first Council Meeting of the new United Counties met on January 28, 1850. The sixteen-member Council appointed David Roblin from Richmond Township as the first Warden.

This system of municipal government remained in effect until September 7, 1864 when the separation of the Counties of Frontenac and Lennox and Addington occurred. The first session of the Council of the new County of Frontenac was held on January 24, 1865. D.D. Calvin, the Reeve of Wolfe Island, was elected the first warden of the newly separated County. Since then Frontenac County has consisted of the following townships: Barrie; Bedford; North and South Canonto; Palmerston; Clarendon and Miller; Hinchinbrooke; Kennebec; Kingston; Loughborough; Olden; Oso; Pittsburgh; Portland; Howe Island; Storrington; and Wolfe Island.

The same basic structure remained until amalgamation was ordered by the Provincial Minister on January 7, 1997. The City of Kingston was joined with two townships (Pittsburgh and Kingston), and the 14 remaining townships were incorporated into four newly alligned municipalities (Central Frontenac, North Frontenac, South Frontenac, Frontenac Islands). The amalgamation became effective as of January 1, 1998. The County of Frontenac no longer exists as an administrative body but has been replaced by the new municipalities.