Louis de Buade de Frontenac

Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (22 May 1622 - 28 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 built several forts on the Great Lakes and fought a series of battles against the English and the Iroquois.

During his first term, he advocated for the expansion of the fur trade, establishing Fort Frontenac (in what is now Kingston, Ontario), and clashed with the other members of the Sovereign Council over its expansion and the corvées required to build the new forts. Specifically, despite bishop François de Laval's opposition, he supported selling brandy to aboriginal tribes, which Laval considered a mortal sin. In 1682, he was recalled due to a disagreement with the Sovereign Council.

During King William's War, his second term was marked by the defense of Quebec from an English invasion, a successful campaign against Iroquois and English settlements that resulted in the elimination of the Iroquois threat to New France, and a large expansion of the fur trade using Canadian coureurs des bois. He died before being called back to France for the second time.