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	John Graves Simcoe
		John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 - October 26, 1806) was the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (modern-day southern Ontario) from 1791-1796.
		Simcoe was born on February 25, 1752 in Cotterstock, Britain.
		Simcoe was selected as the Lieutenant-Governor, and made plans to move to Upper Canada with his wife Elizabeth and daughter Sophia, leaving three other daughters behind with their aunt.
	teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_graves_simcoe.html (716 words)

	Early Canada Historical Narratives -- JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Graves Simcoe, a member of the House of Commons that approved the act, envisaged a fine settlement in Upper Canada populated by Loyalists, many of whom he had led as members of the Queen's Rangers during the revolution.
		Simcoe pledged to preserve a society based on levels: a lower class that knew its lot in life and stayed in it and a titled, aristocratic upper class that determined what that was.
		Simcoe was motivated by a single-minded passion to distinguish himself in some way in the colonies and his appointment as lieutenant governor stimulated his natural enthusiasm and boundless energy.
	www.uppercanadahistory.ca /simcoe/simcoe1.html (5566 words)

	John Graves Simcoe's Journal [1/2]
		Simcoe understood that Nimham, an Indian chief, and some of his tribe, were with the enemy; and by his spies, who were excellent, he was informed that they were highly elated at the retreat of Emmerick's corps, and applied it to the whole of the light troops at Kingsbridge.
		Simcoe that he understood there was a piquet of the enemy two miles off to the right of the White-plains, and desired that he would send a party to the Plains to watch that quarter, while he galloped on to the enemy's post.
		Simcoe; the house was immediately forced, and, no resistance being made, the officers shut the doors of the different rooms, to prevent the irritated soldiers from revenging their unfortunate [p93] comrade: the man, who fired was the only person killed; but Thomas, after Lt. Col.
	home.golden.net /~marg/bansite/src/simcoesjournal1.html (11179 words)

	Early Canada Historical Narratives -- SIMCOE & HIS NEMESIS DORCHESTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir Guy returned to England in 1778, but four years later was recalled to duty commander-in-chief of British forces which oversaw the withdrawal from New York of some 30,000 British troops and some 27,000 Loyalist refugees.
		Simcoe seems to have been under the misapprehension that as lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, he would be supreme in that province.
		Simcoe was stubborn and ambitious with a sense of mission that became a fixation.
	www.uppercanadahistory.ca /simcoe/simcoe8.html (1951 words)

	John Graves Simcoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 - October 26, 1806) was the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (modern-day southern Ontario plus the shoreline of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior) from 1791-1796.
		Simcoe moved the capital to Toronto in 1793 and renamed the location York after Frederick, Duke of York, George III's second son.
		Simcoe's regiment still exists as the Queen's York Rangers, an armoured reconnaissance regiment of the Canadian Forces reserves.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/John-Graves-Simcoe.htm (900 words)

	Science Fair Projects - John Graves Simcoe
		John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806) was the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (modern-day southern Ontario plus the shoreline of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior) from 1791-1796.
		The Dundas Road, named after Simcoe's friend Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, starts on the Lake Ontario shoreline running north, but soon bends westward to its namesake a similar distance to the west near Hamilton, with plans to continue it to London, where he had wanted to form the capital of Upper Canada.
		The town of Simcoe in southwestern Ontario and Simcoe County to the west and north of Lake Simcoe are also named for him (Lake Simcoe itself was named by John Graves Simcoe for his father).
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Sir_John_Graves_Simcoe (1042 words)

	Governor Simcoe Branch, UELAC - Governor Simcoe
		John Graves Simcoe was born on 25 February, 1752, in the village of Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, to John Simcoe, a captain in the Royal Navy, and Katherine Stamford.
		Simcoe directed the first draft of the city plan, and under his direction the site was surveyed and divided into lots, and a location for parliament buildings was decided upon.
		Simcoe's command was changed from Upper Canada to Santa Domingo, where he was to restore order by handling a French invasion and staving off a slave rebellion.
	www.uelgovsimcoe.org /simcoe.php (676 words)

	19th Century Conflict and Change in Canada - John Graves Simcoe
		John Graves Simcoe was born in Cotter stock,Northamptonshire on the 25th of February 1752.
		John Graves Simcoe was born in Cotter stock, Northamptonshire.
		Simcoe was one of the men who in 1793 founded the city of York, later Toronto.
	smcdsb.on.ca /mdy/Simcoe.htm (604 words)

	my history project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Graves Simcoe was a passionate man with strong beliefs.
		John Graves attended Eaton when he was fifteen and went on to study at Merton College, Oxford.
		John Simcoe was a very much against slavery and he brought to legislation the Anti-Slavery Act.
	www.alcdsb.on.ca /~marg/enrichment/andrea/my_history_project.htm (566 words)

	Articles & Essays
		John Graves Simcoe, outstanding career soldier and military leader of the Queen's Rangers during the American Revolutionary war, is appointed first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, 1791 -1796, under Sir Guy Carleton/Lord Dorchester.
		Simcoe saw the Toronto area as a natural naval arsenal, and was not disposed to granting lands to Toronto's French forbears.
		Now accompanying the Simcoes to Canada are their one-year old son Francis, their 3 year old daughter Sophia, a few servants, and several soldiers of the Queen's Rangers, a "guerilla" regiment Simcoe had created to fight American rebels fifteen years earlier in Delaware and Pennsylvania.
	www.cpachter.com /projects/pro_articles_Simcoe.html (6566 words)

	Col. John Graves Simcoe, London's History, LRAHM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This portrait was presented to Reverend (later Bishop) Hellmuth when he visited two of the unmarried daughters of Col. Simcoe in the 1860s while collecting funds for the establishment of Huron College.
		Simcoe selected the Forks of Thames as the capital of Upper Canada even before he left England and even before there was an Upper Canada.
		Early in 1791, he wrote to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society: "I mean to establish a Capital in the very heart of the country, upon the River La Tranche (Thames).
	collections.ic.gc.ca /london/simcoe.html (237 words)

	Ontario Heritage Foundation - John Graves Simcoe — Ontario's First Lieutenant-Governor
		John Graves Simcoe was born on February 25, 1752 in Cotterstock, Northamptonshire in Britain.
		When the Simcoe family arrived at Quebec City on November 11, it was too late in the season to make the journey to Upper Canada and they spent the winter in Quebec becoming familiar with Canadian social life and the responsibilities of the office of lieutenant-governor.
		Simcoe was "delighted with the beauty of the Country and Industry of the Inhabitants" and soon began to implement his plans to develop the province.
	www.heritagefdn.on.ca /userfiles/HTML/nts_1_2724_1.html (1195 words)

	New Page 0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir Allan had been born and raised in the Anglican faith, his father, together with William Jarvis were some of the first pew holders of St. James' in Toronto.
		In a brief address he said that Sir Alan was dead, and that for twenty-seven years he had worshipped with that congregation, and that a few weeks before he had partaken of Communion with them and was present in Church with them the Sunday before his death.
		Christie; John White; etc. A parley was held as to who was to officiate, and the Roman Catholics stated that they were taking charge, but the funeral was already one hour late.
	www.freemasonry.org /nking/MacNab.htm (2524 words)

	Bio Notes: John Graves Simcoe
		When other provincial regiments were switched over to red coats, Simcoe successfully defended his unit's green jackets as far more practical for their type of warfare, particularly once they had faded enough to blend into a background of forests and fields.
		Simcoe was taken prisoner by the rebels in 1779, but he was exchanged and continued in active service throughout 1780-81.
		Simcoe was in poor health throughout the siege, and he was among the first officers sent home on parole, arriving in London in December, 1781.
	home.golden.net /~marg/bansite/friends/simcoe.html (986 words)

	Simcoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir John Graves Simcoe was born on February 25, 1752, in Northumberland, England.
		Duncan Campbell arrived in Simcoe in 1820 at the age of 18.
		The Simcoe Horticultural Society was established in 1896 and in 1897, H.H. Groff became the 2nd vice president of the society.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /simcoe/simcoepeoplef.htm (839 words)

	John Graves Simcoe
		SIMCOE, John Graves, British soldier, born near Exeter, England, 25 February, 1752; died in Torbay, 26 October, 1806.
		He raised a battalion called the Queen's rangers, which was drilled and disciplined in a superior manner for light and active service, and with which he did important service to the royal cause in the south.
		Colonel Simcoe's corps was constantly in advance of the army, and performed a series of skilful and successful enterprises.
	www.famousamericans.net /johngravessimcoe (505 words)

	Queen Street West. Who is Queen Street West? What is Queen Street West? Where is Queen Street West? Definition of Queen ...
		Queen Street was used as the cartographical baseline for establishing the orientation of the east-west avenues of Toronto's gridded street system.
		Since its original survey in 1793 by Sir Alexander Aitkin, commissioned by Sir John Graves Simcoe, Queen Street has had many names.
		For its first sixty years, many sections were referred to as "Lot Street", but in 1851 it was rechristened "Queen Street" after Queen Victoria of England.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Queen_Street_West (854 words)

	eye - Fund for city green spaces in danger - 04.13.00
		Two weeks ago it was Robert Fung's vision of revitalization, and 200 years ago it was Sir John Graves Simcoe's vision of a town's green edge on the water.
		Simcoe founded the Town of York in 1793 with a 10-block plan along the bay showing a park to the east of Berkeley St., a park to the west of Garrison Creek (where Fort York is still located) and a shoreline preserved for the use of citizens.
		In the early 1850s, John Howard gave the city High Park -- creating a plan of walkways and gardens for the Walks and Gardens Trust, perhaps as an alternative to what the then booming railways had in mind.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.13.00/news/citystate.html (911 words)

	Loyalist Institute: Queen's Rangers, Simcoe to Nepean
		HOWE, & Sir H. CLINTON signified to the Volunteers of the Army, that the way to preferment was previously to be Ensigns in the Q. Rangers, & many good Officers have served in it who were removed to the line, but others preferred remaining in the Corps; so generally was its establishment Expected.
		Sir Henry CLINTON recommended the Regiment for Rank & Establishment, this was not complied with; but it was promised half Pay, & numbered the 1st American Regiment, Lord RAWDON's Corps as 2d.
		Sir H: CLINTON to use his own Words, "not only for Rank, as due to their merits, but as the Army may not be deprived of the Services of the best Corps of Officers in it."
	www.royalprovincial.com /military/rhist/qar/qarlet1.htm (791 words)

	Upper Canada Aggregate Census and Assessment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada was Sir John Graves Simcoe.
		Simcoe's prime goal was to win the American Loyalist emigrants back into the British camp.
		Simcoe did not fully succeed in his goal when he retired in 1796, but the War of 1812 helped to further his cause and strengthen Britain's control over Upper Canada.
	www.trentu.ca /library/archives/79-004.htm (358 words)

	Field Officers of the Canadian Regiment of Fencible Infantry in the War of 1812
		In his military journal of the service of the Queen's Rangers in the American Revolution, Sir John Graves Simcoe recounts the role of Shank in many of the skirmishes prior to the surrender of Yorktown.
		Son of Sir James Cockburn, Baronet, he secured his captaincy in the 60th at the age of 24 and served with that regiment in South America in 1807 and between 1809 and 1811 on the Peninsula.
		In the 1790s Shank, through his influence with Lieutenant Governor Simcoe and as the commanding officer of the new Queen's Rangers, was granted land in and around York and became quite wealthy.
	www.militaryheritage.com /fd_offr.htm (2768 words)

	The Times - If These Walls Could Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bryan Walls emphasizes the fact that as far back as 1793, John Graves Simcoe, Upper Canada’s first Lieutenant Governor, was instrumental in passing Canada’s first antislavery law.
		John Freeman and Jane King Walls surely played an active role in the roots of this movement.
		Note: John Freeman Walls never allowed himself to be photographed for fear of being discovered and returned to a life of slavery in the South.
	www.walkervilletimes.com /31/walls2.html (993 words)

	Woodstock, Ontario Business Directory Computer Classifieds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1792, Sir John Graves Simcoe became Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and for the next five years, laid plans for the development of the interior of Upper Canada.
		Simcoe named this road Dundas Street after Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.
		To speed development in the sparsely populated interior of the province, Simcoe granted whole townships to land companies who were obligated to bring in settlers.
	www.woodstockweb.ca /woodstockontario.htm (1802 words)

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		The last known Beothuk, Shawnadithit, told her captor, John Peyton, that the Beothuk were descended from Labrador Indians.
		Shawnadithit, who died in St. John's in 1829, left us with numerous words of her language and information about her society and culture.
		One account said he was killed by the English king in 1401, while another states he was killed fighting pirates in 1404.
	www.edunetconnect.com /cat/candict/s.html (1192 words)

	List of Freemasons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Herbert Turner, Vancouver Lodge No. 421 SR, Victoria, BC George Anthony Walkem, King Solomon's Lodge No. 22, Toronto, ON Paul Bernardo Infamous Scarborough, Ontario Serial Killer and Rapist.
		John Philip Sousa, Hiram Lodge No. 10, Washington, DC Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan, Past Grand Organist of the United Grand Lodge of England
		President George H.W. Bush took his inaugural oath on the George Washington Bible, belonging to St. John's Lodge in New York, but he is not a Mason.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_Freemasons (4186 words)

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