It was located on the north shore of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the Saint Lawrence River.

[1] The Union Act provided that the town of Kingston would constitute one electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of the new Parliament,[2] but gave the Governor General of the Province of Canada the power to draw the boundaries for the electoral district.

[3] The first Governor General of the Province of Canada, Lord Sydenham, issued a proclamation shortly after the formation of the Province of Canada in early 1841, establishing the boundaries for the electoral district: The Town of Kingston, shall be bounded and limited as follows, commencing on Lake Ontario, in the limit between lots numbers twenty-four and twenty-five, in the Township of Kingston, at the south-west angle of the said lot number twenty-five ; then north, one hundred and seven chains, fifty links more or less, to the northern limit of the lands granted to Magdalen Ferguson ; then east, sixty-one chains, more or less, to the River Cataraqui ; thence along the water's edge of the said river Cataraqui and Lake Ontario, southerly and westerly, to the place of beginning.

[8] It was succeeded by electoral districts of the same name in the House of Commons of Canada[9] and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

[10] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Proclamation, Governor General Lord Sydenham, February 27, 1841.