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When Frontenac was founded in 1971 the Laird Norton Company, our sole limited partner at the time, was offered the opportunity to name the firm. Laird Norton had long-standing associations with Weyerhaeuser, and was involved with them in lumbering operations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Pacific Northwest. Accordingly they chose a name that paid homage to these origins. The Frontenac was a paddle-steamer that transported logs up and down the Mississippi. It was the sturdiest ship in the fleet and was said to be able to "float on a light dew" - an apt metaphor for a company in the risk capital business.
The paddle-steamer itself was named after Count Louis Frontenac (1622-98), courtier and Governor of New France, who promoted the intrepid exploration that led to the expansion of the French empire in the New World.
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