Cataraqui Golf and Country Club is a private golf and curling club located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1917. History Early golf in Kingston, the Kingston Golf Club Cataraqui G&CC was established in 1917. Its founding arose from development pressures in downtown Kingston. The new club was built on land that was then on the western edge of settlement for the city and district, following the World War I-era construction of the LaSalle Causeway and provincial highway, across the Cataraqui River as it feeds into Lake Ontario, in downtown Kingston. This new highway also crossed the property used by the Kingston Golf Club, disrupting the flow of play there. Kingston had been a military centre since its founding as Fort Frontenac by French explorers in 1673, on the site of an aboriginal settlement known as Cataraqui, and the military base was being expanded to large extent, with the world war, necessitating the causeway and highway construction. The Kingston Golf Club, located on the Barriefield Common, just north of the Royal Military College of Canada and Fort Henry, just west of the village of Barriefield, and just east of the Cataraqui River, was the first golf course in the area. The Kingston Golf Club operated from 1886 to 1887, and then again from 1891 to 1925, eventually with 13 distinct holes, and was a charter 1895 member of the Royal Canadian Golf Association. The Kingston Golf Club has been identified as the fourth oldest golf club in North America. The first Canadian Amateur Championship winner in 1895, Thomas Harley, a Scottish immigrant carpenter and stevedore, employed on the dockyards at RMC, represented the Kingston Golf Club. The Kingston Golf Club operated until 1925, with a modified layout, but the area's golfers gradually switched to Cataraqui in the years prior to 1925. Early years of Cataraqui G&CC The original course at Cataraqui was located past the western edge of the city at that time, on Lake Ontario. It had six holes; the club gradually acquired more land and expanded to 13 holes by 1921; by June 1925 the course had 18 holes. One of the original designers was likely George Cumming, a top Toronto golf professional, Canadian Open and Canadian PGA Championship winner, and golf course architect, who is a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. Nine different course routings, using different sections of land, were used