Frontenac may refer to:

People

Louis de Buade de Frontenac Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (; 22 May 162228 November 1698) was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a nu ...

, Governor of New France

Places

Canada

Quebec * Château Frontenac, hotel in Quebec City *

Frontenac, Quebec Frontenac is a municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in Estrie, Quebec, Canada, on the Canada–United States border. Its population was 1,650 as of the Canada 2011 Census. Toponymy The area was settled heavily from 1870 to 18 ...

Frontenac County, Quebec Frontenac County was a county of Quebec, Canada. It existed between 1912 and the early 1980s. The territory it covered is today divided into the regional county municipalities of Le Granit in the administrative regions of the Estrie and Beauce-Sart ...

Frontenac (Montreal Metro) Frontenac station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. It is located at 2570 Ontario Street East in t ...

, Montreal Metro station *

Frontenac National Park Frontenac National Park (french: Parc national de Frontenac) is a 156.5 km2 provincial park in southeastern Quebec, Canada, created in 1987 and governed by Société des établissements de plein air du Québec. The park is located along Lac ...

(Parc national de Frontenac) *

Frontenac (provincial electoral district) Frontenac is a former provincial electoral district in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of the province of Quebec, Canada, which elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec. As of its final election, it included the city of Thetford Mine ...

, Quebec provincial electoral district *

Frontenac (Quebec electoral district) Frontenac was a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1997. This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Lotbinière (electoral district), ...

, former federal electoral district *

Frontenac (1912–1973 provincial electoral district) Frontenac may refer to: People *Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France Places Canada Quebec *Château Frontenac, hotel in Quebec City *Frontenac, Quebec *Frontenac County, Quebec * Frontenac (Montreal Metro), Montreal Metro station * ...

, former Quebec provincial electoral district *

Frontenac Lake (Milieu River) Frontenac Lake is a freshwater body of the Lac-Ashuapmushuan, Quebec unorganized territory in the northwestern part of the Regional County Municipality (RCM) Le Domaine-du-Roy in the region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in ...

, Lac-Ashuapmushuan, RCM Le Domaine-du-Roy, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Ontario *

Fort Frontenac Fort Frontenac was a French trading post and military fort built in July 1673 at the mouth of the Cataraqui River where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario (at what is now the western end of the La Salle Causeway), in a location tradition ...

, French fort and trading post located in what is now Kingston, Ontario * Frontenac County: ** Township of

Central Frontenac Central Frontenac is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada in the County of Frontenac. Central Frontenac was created in 1998 through an amalgamation of the Townships of Hinchinbrooke, Kennebec, Olden and Oso. Communities There are 28 communiti ...

** Township of Frontenac Islands ** Township of North Frontenac ** Township of South Frontenac * Frontenac Provincial Park, a provincial park near Kingston, Ontario * Frontenac Public School, Burlington, Ontario *

Frontenac Secondary School Frontenac Secondary School is a high school in the west-end of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Limestone District School Board. Its sports teams play under the nickname "Frontenac Falcons". History Frontenac Secondary School was found ...

, Kingston, Ontario *

Frontenac (Ontario electoral district) Frontenac was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1925. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867. It was initially defined to consist o ...

, former federal electoral district * Frontenac (Ontario provincial electoral district), former provincial electoral district

France

* Frontenac, Gironde * Frontenac, Lot

United States

* Frontenac, Kansas * Frontenac, Minnesota **

Frontenac State Park Frontenac State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, on the Mississippi River southeast of Red Wing. The park is notable both for its history and for its birdwatching opportunities. The centerpiece of the park is a , steep lim ...

* Frontenac, Missouri * Frontenac, Florida

Automotive

* Abendroth & Root Manufacturing Co, produced automobiles under the name Frontenac 1906-1913 * Frontenac Motor Corporation, a joint racing-car venture of Louis and Gaston Chevrolet 1916-1921 *

Dominion Motors Frontenac Durant Motors of New York, New York, first used the Frontenac marque in 1931 on vehicles built and sold in Canada. The Canadian Durant firm was acquired by a group of Canadian investors Jan 14 1931 (Toronto Star Jan 14 1931) and renamed Dominion ...

, a division of Durant Motors that built and sold automobiles in Canada 1931-1933 *

Frontenac (marque) In 1960, Ford Canada introduced the Frontenac to give Mercury-Meteor dealers a compact vehicle to sell. It was a separate marque, like Lincoln was to Ford. Produced for the 1960 model year only, the Frontenac was essentially a 1960 Ford Falcon wi ...

, an automobile introduced in 1960 by Ford Motor Company of Canada

Others

Frontenac (grape) Frontenac is an interspecific hybrid grapevine that is a result of research and cross-breeding by the University of Minnesota. It was grown from a crossing of the complex interspecific hybrid Landot 4511 and a very cold hardy selection of Vitis ...

* Frontenac Axis, a geological feature in Canada and the United States * Lac Frontenac or Lac de Frontenac, an old name for

Lake Ontario Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border sp ...

* PS ''Frontenac'', first paddle steamer launched on the Great Lakes *McColl-Frontanac Oil Company, a Canadian company acquired by

Texaco Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American Petroleum, oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its Gasoline, fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an Indepe ...

in 1956 *''Frontenac: or The Atotarho of the Iroquois'', a poem by

Alfred Billings Street Alfred Billings Street (December 18, 1811 – June 2, 1881) was an American author and poet. Biography Street was born in Poughkeepsie (city), New York. His family moved to Monticello in Sullivan County when he was young, and he was educated at ...

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