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Simcoe moved the capital to Toronto in 1793, renaming the settlement York after Frederick, Duke of York, George III's second son.
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Due to Newark's close proximity to the American border, Simcoe moved the capital in 1797 to York and Newark was officially renamed ' Niagara ' in 1798.
The original St Andrew's building eventually proved too small, and the church moved to its current location on the southeast corner of King and Simcoe Streets on February 13, 1876.
Following the First World War this stand of Colours was laid-up in St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Barrie, Ontario on 10 October 1919 and subsequently moved to the Simcoe County Archives on 21 July 1968 and then to the Simcoe County Museum in December 1979.
Simcoe and capital
Simcoe realized that Newark made an unsuitable capital because it was on the United States border and subject to attack.
Early settlers included many of the Queen's Rangers, who were given land in the area by Simcoe to help protect the new capital of Upper Canada.
York became the capital of Upper Canada on February 1, 1796, the year Governor Simcoe returned to Britain and was temporarily replaced by Peter Russell.
Renamed Newark by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe in 1792, he made it the first capital of Upper Canada ( now the province of Ontario ), The first provincial parliament was convened at the Navy Hall on September 17, 1792.
Simcoe had decided to make Toronto ( which he renamed York ) the capital of Upper Canada, and the government, the first parliament buildings and the town were established one and a half miles east of the fort ( near the foot of the present Parliament Street ).
After establishing a " temporary " capital at York, Simcoe ordered an inland route constructed between Cootes Paradise at the tip of Lake Ontario and his proposed capital of London.
The site was then chosen by Governor John Graves Simcoe on July 29, 1793, as the new capital of the newly organized province of Upper Canada, moving away from the U. S. border.
Simcoe and Toronto
The 1903 unveiling of the General John Graves Simcoe monument at Queen's Park ( Toronto ) | Queen's Park in Toronto.
Statue of John Graves Simcoe first Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario | Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada by Walter Seymour Allward 1903 Queen's Park ( Toronto )
* Civic Holiday, a statutory holiday celebrated throughout Canada under a variety of names by region, was established in honour of Simcoe by the Toronto City Council in 1869.
In 1965, the Toronto City Council declared the holiday would henceforth be known as Simcoe Day within Toronto.
* Simcoe Street and John Street in downtown Toronto, along with Simcoe Place ( office tower ) in downtown Toronto, are all located near the fort where Simcoe lived during his early years in York.
* Simcoe Street in New Westminster and Simcoe Park was named by Colonel Moody in reference to the surveying of the area after the city of Toronto.
* Simcoe Hall, located on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto
* 1793 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
* July 29 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
Orillia ( IPA: ) is a city located in Simcoe County in Southern ( South-Central ) Ontario, Canada, between Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe, north of Toronto.
It is part of the Greater Toronto Area, being located about halfway between Toronto and Lake Simcoe.
It was noted that on that date in 1854, the 35th birthday of Queen Victoria, some 5, 000 residents of Canada West gathered in front of Government House ( near present day King and Simcoe Streets in Toronto ) to " give cheers to their queen.
The town was established in 1793 by Governor John Graves Simcoe, with a new ' Fort York ' on the site of the last French ' Fort Toronto '.
The Regional Municipality of York, also called York Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, between Lake Simcoe and Toronto.
Simcoe and 1793
John Graves Simcoe was appointed Upper Canada's first Lieutenant-Governor in 1793.
Ontario had become a refuge for slaves from the United States after 1793, when Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passed " An Act to prevent further introduction of Slaves, and to limit the Term of Contracts for Servitude within this Province ".
Penetanguishene, an Ojibwe village located at the southern tip of the bay near present-day Midland, was developed as a naval base in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
In 1793, John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, visited the area and saw the location's potential as a naval base.
Under the auspices of Simcoe, The Slave Act of 1793 was legislated.
* 1793 – John Graves Simcoe is appointed as the first governor of Upper Canada.
At the inaugural meeting of the Executive Council of Upper Canada in March 1793, Simcoe heard from a witness the story of Chloe Cooley, a female slave who had been violently removed from Canada for sale in the United States.
In 1793, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe authorized a garrison on the present site of Fort York, just west of the mouth of Garrison Creek on the north eastern shore of Lake Ontario.
The island was also named Canise ( or Kanise ) Island by Governor John Graves Simcoe in 1793 to honour a local native chief by that name.
Governor John Simcoe confirmed the Grant with a limited deed on January 14, 1793.
A 1793 watercolour painting by Simcoe of York Harbour before settlement.
Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, KCB, PC ( 1731 – 25 September 1812 ) was a British Secretary at War ( 1782 – 1783 and 1783 – 1794 ) and the namesake of Yonge Street, a principal road in Toronto, Canada, which was named in 1793 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe.
A British army officer and later the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada ( 1791 – 1796 ), John Graves Simcoe, passed an Act Against Slavery in 1793, which led to the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada by 1810.
John Graves Simcoe was appointed Upper Canada's first Lieutenant-Governor in 1793.
The 1793 " Simcoe Act ," forbade the importation of any additional slaves and freed children.
Nine years later, the Tyendinaga tract of land was officially set aside under Crown Treaty 3½, signed on on April 1, 1793, by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe and thereafter known as the ' Simcoe Deed '.
In 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe came across what would be the future site of Holland Landing, then known as St. Albans, and believed this area would make an ideal shipping and defence point between York ( now Toronto ) and Georgian Bay.
In 1793, he obtained a land grant of 66, 000 acres ( 267 km² ) in Oxford County from Governor John Graves Simcoe.
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