Craig Wood came across the following online video that is based on the book by Wall of Honour inductee 9884 Dr Robert (Bob) Banks (Class of 1974) and provides an amazing history of Point Frederick, the peninsula upon which the campus of RMC now stands. According to the YouTube page, in 2022, “the Frontenac Heritage Foundation was successful in obtaining a grant from the City of Kingston Heritage Fund to assist Dr. Robert Banks in publishing his book 'Warriors and Warships: Conflict on the Great Lakes and the Legacy of Point Frederick'. That fall, with the permission of the Royal Military College, Bob conducted a well-attended walking tour of the Point. Then in the fall of 2023, Sue Bazely [an archaeologist who was involved with archaeological digs on Point Frederick, including in 2004 prior to the construction of the Fort Brant dormitory] and Bob Banks were granted permission by the College to be interviewed by David McCallum of Lightstruck Film and Media to film a walking tour of the Point. This short film combines those interviews with historical images, along with drone imagery by Darren Keuhl of Razor Aerial Productions to give you a look back in time to life on Point Frederick before the RMC was established.”

Frederick Point

This was an old map of Point Frederick that was posted on the Brock University Digital Repository website ( https://dr.library.brocku.ca/ ). Below that map is Point Frederick today. Pete Avis, the son of the Dean of Arts, Dr Walter Avis, notes these were his boyhood stomping grounds and that Navy Bay and Dead Man's Bay are the modern names for the Haldimand and Hamilton Coves. He says “Ile au Cedre” is now of course Cedar Island and "Petite Ile au Cedre" is now Whiskey Island (after the Prohibition Years and rum smuggling – right off of Cartwright Point).