Two separate automobile manufacturers have produced cars under the Frontenac name brand.

Dominion Motors

Durant Motors Company of New York, New York first used the Frontenac marque in 1931 on vehicles built and sold in Canada. The Canadian Durant firm was acquired by a group of Canadian investors and renamed Domminion Motors Limited. The firm continued building Durant and Frontenac cars. The first Frontenac, for 1931, was model 6-18, a 109" wheelbase car based on the Durant 619. Durant Motors Inc. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Also see: Durant (automobile) Durant, Iowa Durant, Mississippi Durant Motors Durant, Oklahoma Will Durant and Ariel Durant This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

After Durant Motors went under in 1932, Dominion Motors switched to De Vaux for a source of car designs. The 1932 Frontenac range consisted of two sixes, 6-70 (109" wheelbase), an update of the 1931 6-18, and the 6-85 (114" wheelbase) based on the De Vaux 6-80. Durant Motors Inc. ... The De Vaux (deVoe) was an automobile produced by the De Vaux Motors Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Oakland, California (USA). ...

And just as Durant got into trouble, so did De Vaux. The firm was taken over by its major creditor, Continental Motors, in late 1932. Continental decided to continue car production under the Continental name and Dominion Motors decided to base their cars on Continental vehicles. Just as the 1933 Continental line consisted of three models, so did Frontenac. Also see: Durant (automobile) Durant, Iowa Durant, Mississippi Durant Motors Durant, Oklahoma Will Durant and Ariel Durant This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Continental Motors is a corporation in Mobile, Alabama, USA, that produces aircraft engines. ...

The last Frontenac models were the C-400, a 101½" wheelbase four cyinder car based on the Continental Beacon and the C-600, based on the 107" wheelbase, six cylinder Continental Flyer. Frontenac imported the 114" wheelbase Continental Ace, putting a Frontenac nameplate on the grille and selling them as the Frontenac Ace.

Although Continental continued into 1934, Frontenac called it quits in 1933. Dominion Motors also built Reo cars and trucks for the Canadian market. Reo continued to use the plant into the early 1950's and in 1950 and 1951 Kaiser used part of the plant to assemble Kaiser sedans for the Canadian market. Continental may refer to: The adjective of continent, such as in continental Europe, continental breakfast, or continental climate, or Continental Glacier; The culture of the continental nation states of Europe, inasmuch as it contrasts with the culture of Anglo-Saxon England; The Lincoln Continental, a car made by Lincoln division... REO could mean: Real estate owned, a real estate term REO Speedwagon, a band Reo Motor Car Co. ... REO could mean: Real estate owned, a real estate term REO Speedwagon, a band Reo Motor Car Co. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

==Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited==

The 1960 Frontenac, sold on in Canada in 1960 by Ford of Canada

In 1960 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited introduced the Frontenac in order to give Mercury-Meteor dealers a compact to sell. Produced for the 1960 model year only, the Frontenac was essentially a 1960 Ford Falcon with its own unique grille, tail lights and external trim including red maple leaf insignias. Despite strong sales (5% of Ford's total Canadian output) the Frontenac was discontinued and replaced by the Mercury Comet for 1961. Image File history File links 1960 Frontenac advertisement from Ford Canada File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links 1960 Frontenac advertisement from Ford Canada File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited is the manufacturing and sales arm of Ford Motor Company for Canada. ... Mercury is an automobile brand name of the Ford Motor Company founded in 1939 to market semi-luxury cars slotted between entry-level Ford and luxury Lincoln models. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... This article is about the Australian car model. ... 1960 promotional art used in Comet advertising The Mercury Comet was an automobile produced by the Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company between 1960 and 1977. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...

Resources

Zavitz, Perry R. Canadian Cars, 1946-1984, Bookman Publishing, Baltimore, Maryland, 1985, ISBN 0-934780-43-9

Canadian Automotive Information Handbook, Canadian Automotive Information Service, Oakville, Ontario : 1939 edition

External links

Frontenac - Ford Motor Company of Canada