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The Friends are a group of volunteers who live near the Salmon River or who visit and enjoy the river and its watershed. Started in 2004, the Friends seek to learn more about the Salmon and want to use that knowledge to care for the river and its watershed. The Friends of the Salmon co-operate with the Stewardship Councils of Frontenac, Lennox & Addington and Hastings as well as Quinte Conservation and all other like-minded groups interested in the Salmon and its watershed.

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R. Frigon was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

Paul Fritz was born at Lyn Junction in Leeds County, Ontario in 1938. He received his early education at Halleck's and Brockville Collegiate. He received his B.A. in History, Politics and Economics from Queen's University in 1961, his M.A.from the University of Wisconsin, 1962, and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. His area of speciality was Modern British History. Dr. Fritz was employed as a professor of history at McMaster University from 1966 until his retirement in 1999.

He has authored and edited several books including The English Ministers and Jacobitism, Women in the 18th Century, City and Society in the 18th Century, plus a wide range of scholarly articles, many of them dealing with British Royalty.

His awards include the Gold Medal in History and the Peace Prize Medal from Queen's in 1961. He also received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for Contributions to Historical Studies in Canada and in 1978 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (England).

Upon retirement from McMaster he became widely involved in writing and researching the history of the Leeds & Grenville area. His publications in this area include: A History of the Old Stone Mill Delta, Ontario; A History of Holy Trinity Church, Oak Leaf; and A History of Delta United Church. He headed up the Committee to save the Old Stone Church in Phillipsville (home of the second oldest Baptist Community in Ontario) and lectured on local history to genealogical groups, architectural societies and historical societies.

Paul Fritz currently resides in Kingston and Athens.

Bill Fritz was born in Ferrybank, Alberta on August 14, 1914. While attending Walkerville Collegiate, Fritz set several WSSA, WOSSA, and Ontario records. His 1931 440-yard time of 52.6 seconds was unbroken at the WSSA Intermediate level until 1953. The following year, Fritz set two WSSA Senior records. His 22.4-second 220-yard time lasted until 1975, and his 50.2-second 440-yard time, bettering his Junior record, held until 1965. At the 1932 WOSSA meet, Fritz ran the 440-yard dash in 50 seconds flat, setting a Canadian Inter-Scholastic record.

Fritz went on to study at Queen’s University, where he won eight intercollegiate championships in the 220 and 440-yard races. He was the ninth winner of the Jenkins Trophy, one of the university’s oldest ongoing honours. The prestigious trophy is awarded annually to the school’s most outstanding well-rounded scholar-athlete. During his racing career, Fritz is known to have trained through the winter in Kingston’s snowdrifts. This harsh regimen is said to have propelled him to starring performances against the world’s best at indoor meets in New York and at the Boston Millrose Games.

In 1933, at the age of 23, Fritz contributed to Canadian record in the mile relay that was not broken until ’47. Fritz, Art Scott, Glenn Sherman, and Ray Lauzon combined to set the mark while racing for the Windsor Olympic Club under coach Hec Phillips. Fritz achieved international recognition at the 1934 British Empire Games (now the Commonwealth Games) in London, England. Two years later, at the Berlin Olympics, Fritz finished fifth in the 400-metre final. As part of the Canadian mile relay team, Fritz won a gold medal at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia. Bill Fritz passed away on October 14, 1995 in London, Ontario.

The Frontenac County Children's Aid Society was founded to protect children from abuse and neglect.

The Loyal Orange Order, an ultra Protestant fraternal order, originated in County Armagh, Ireland about 1795. The two main tenets of the Order were loyalty to the British Crown and support of Protestantism. The conflict that took place in Ireland, 1688-1690, between William of Orange, king of England and his brother-in-law James II, deposed from the British Throne for his Catholicism, among other reasons, provide the imagery for the order. It appears that various groups as lodges were established in Canada early after the founding, perhaps brought by the British Army, but the movement was not organized until the arrival of Ogle Gowan in Canada in 1829. Gowan came from Wexford, Ireland and settled in Brockville In 1830. Gowan and a group established the Grand Lodge of British North America to control existing lodges and promote new ones. Transplanted to Canada, the Loyal Orange Order first attracted the Protestant Irish, so its high incidence in the counties of Lanark and Leeds and around the Rideau waterway is not surprising. After the 1850s Irish immigration dwindled but the Orange Order remained strong and attached to Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservative party. In 1876 there were twenty-one Orange Lodges in North Leeds. Gradually the ethnic character of the organization changed and lodges were assimilated into Canadian society.

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