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An online camera shows off a view on Highway 401 near Highway 38 in Kingston, Canada. Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. The place where Kingston is located is easy to find on the map: it is located on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario, where the River St. Lawrence, opposite Wolfe Island, near the U.S. border.
Kingston was founded by the French in 1673 on the site of a former Indian settlement. Then it was called Fort Frontennak, and Kingston he began to be called after he came under the rule of the British. It received the status of the city in 1846 because the location of Kingston allowed to control the entrance to the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean from the River St. Lawrence, it was a strategically important point, and the British erected here very solid military fortifications, which are second only to quebec.
Kingston played an important role in the history of the country. Among other things, this is where Canada's first prime minister was born. However, the popular belief that he was once the capital of the state is wrong: he was only "headed" by the United Province of Upper and Lower Canada.
Today Kingston is an important port, tourist, cultural and educational center of the country. There are three universities (including one of the most prestigious universities in the world - queens), as well as the only Federal Military College in the country. The population of Kingston - about 125,000 people, residents speak English. The area of the city is just over 450 sq km.