Kingston Ontario is located nearby the Thousand Islands tourist region to the east and the Prince Edward County tourist region to the west.
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Kingston Ontario is located nearby the Thousand Islands tourist region to the east and the Prince Edward County tourist region to the west.
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Kingston Ontario is nicknamed the "Limestone City" because of the many heritage buildings constructed using local limestone.
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Kingston Ontario was the county seat of Frontenac County until 1998.
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Kingston Ontario is a separate municipality from the County of Frontenac.
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Kingston's location at the Rideau Canal entrance to Lake Ontario made it the primary military and economic centre of Upper Canada after canal construction was completed in 1832.
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Kingston Ontario had the largest population of any centre in Upper Canada until the 1840s.
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Kingston Ontario became an important port as businesses relating to transshipment, or forwarding, grew.
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Since Kingston was at the junction of the St Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, commodities shipped along the lake from the west such as wheat, flour, meat, and potash were unloaded and stored at Kingston to await transfer to vessels that could navigate the risky St Lawrence.
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Several more prisons would be established in later years in the greater Kingston Ontario area, including the federal Prison for Women, Millhaven Penitentiary, Collins Bay, Frontenac, and Joyceville Institutions.
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Subsequently, Kingston Ontario's growth slowed considerably and its national importance declined.
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Kingston Ontario became an important rail centre, for both passengers and cargo, due to difficulty travelling by ship through the rapids-and-shoal-filled river.
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Kingston Ontario won his first election to Kingston City Council in 1843, and would later represent the city for nearly 50 years at the national level, both before and after Confederation in 1867.
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One of his residences in Kingston Ontario, Bellevue House, is 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.
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Kingston Ontario is a regional health care centre, anchored by Kingston Ontario General Hospital and the medical school at Queen's.
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Kingston Ontario, being strategically located at the head of the St Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River near the border with the United States, has been a site of military importance since Fort Frontenac was built in 1673.
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Kingston Ontario is known for its historic properties, as reflected in the city's motto of "where history and innovation thrive".
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Newer churches in the city like Reunion Kingston Ontario, tend to seek rental options rather than building new physical spaces.
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Kingston Ontario's economy relies heavily on public sector institutions and establishments.
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The first sections of the highway in the Kingston Ontario area were opened in 1958, although it was not fully completed for another ten years.
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Seasonal ferry service from Cape Vincent, New York, via Wolfe Island, into downtown Kingston Ontario is an alternate route to and from the United States.
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Shuttle Kingston Ontario was reported in 2013 to connect to Watertown and Syracuse.
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Kingston Ontario is home to many artists who work in visual arts, media arts, literature, and a growing number who work in other time-based disciplines such as performance art.
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Alternative venues for the presentation of exhibition programs in Kingston Ontario include the Union Gallery, Verb Gallery, Open Studio 22, the Kingston Ontario Arts Council gallery, The Artel: Arts Accommodations and Venue, and the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning.
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Writers who are or have been residents of Kingston Ontario include Steven Heighton, Bronwen Wallace, Helen Humphreys, Michael Ondaatje, Diane Schoemperlen, Michael Crummey, Mark Sinnett, Mary Alice Downie, Robertson Davies, Wayne Grady, Merilyn Simonds, Alec Ross, Jamie Swift and Carolyn Smart.
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Comedian and actor Dan Aykroyd has a residence just north of Kingston Ontario and is a frequent face in town.
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Kingston Ontario was briefly a minor partner in a restaurant called Aykroyd's Ghetto House Cafe on upper Princess Street during the 1990s which prominently featured a Blues Brothers' car projecting out from the second story wall.
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Queen's Main Campus is rather self-contained, but is within close walking distance of downtown Kingston Ontario, making it a pedestrian-friendly university for students and faculty alike.
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Kingston Ontario has the largest concentration of federal correctional facilities in Canada.
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Kingston Ontario is within the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone, and is dominated in the Kingston Ontario area by a mixture of deciduous and coniferous tree species and abundant water resources.
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Major features of Kingston Ontario's waterfront include Flora MacDonald Confederation Basin, Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, Collins Bay, Wolfe Island, Garden Island, the Cataraqui River .
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Kingston Ontario lays claim to being the birthplace of ice hockey, though this is contested.
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Since 1972, Kingston Ontario has hosted more than 40 World and Olympic sailing championships.
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Kingston Ontario is listed by a panel of experts among the best yacht racing venues in the US, even though Kingston Ontario is in Canada.
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Kingston Ontario is home to the youth sail training ship called the St Lawrence II.
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Kingston Ontario's shipwrecks are well preserved by its cool fresh water, and the recent zebra mussel invasion has caused a dramatic improvement in water clarity that has enhanced the quality of diving in the area.
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Kingston Ontario area has eight golf courses, two of which are entirely public.
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The Royal Kingston Ontario Curling Club was founded in 1820, and was granted Royal patronage in 1993.
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In 2020, Kingston Ontario hosted the Tim Hortons Brier, the national men's curling championship.
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In 2013, Kingston Ontario hosted the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the national women's curling championship.
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