"At Kingston, according to the Whig Standard of 3 August 1946, Imperial Army officers first presented amateur performances in a small theatre at the Freemasons' Tavern near the Tete du Pont barracks in the 1790s and until the building of Walkers hotel in 1807, when the latter presumably offered better facilities for concerts and private theatricals." (pp. 216)

Fairfield, Robert. "Theatres and Performance Halls." Early Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800-1914. Edited by Ann Saddlemyer. University of Toronto Press, 1990. pp. 214-287.