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  York, Upper Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
York became the capital of Upper Canada on February 1, 1796.
York was attacked by American forces during the War of 1812, pillaged, and partially burned down on April 27, 1813.
However, Toronto was part of the regional division of York County from the late 1700s until the establishment of Metro Toronto in 1954.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/York,_Upper_Canada   (216 words)

  
 Historical Summary - Canada
Upper Canada's European colonization has continued since the American Revolution with Late Loyalists now settling the Niagara peninsula, the Bay of Quinte on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, and lower Ottawa valley, with many aboriginal peoples receiving new lands along the Grand River.
John Strachan (York's Anglican parish minister and school board organizer) argues that the overabundant clergy reserves be sold to profit the church and that dissenting assemblymen, and especially non-Anglican church leaders, are disloyal to the crown.
Their destinations are York, London, Bytown (Ottawa), Hamilton, Cobourg and Kingston, and by the end of the decade, Upper Canada's population soars beyond 450,000 -- five times what it was a generation ago.
www1.xe.net /~mbone/webtree/history-ca.htm   (3007 words)

  
 Sources Cited in The Great Migration; the Atlantic crossing by sailingship since 1770 64003455
Lamond, Robert: Narrative of the Rise and Progress of Emigra- tion from the Counties of Lanark and Renfrew to the New Settlements in Upper Canada.
M'Donald, John: Narrative of a Voyage to Quebec and a Jour- ney from thence to New Lanark in Upper Canada.
Riddell, Walter: Diary of a Voyage from Scotland to Canada in 1833.
www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/becites/genealogy/immigrant/64003455.refs.html   (3813 words)

  
 History of Constables and Policing in Pioneer York Toronto
The early court records of York Town, later to become Toronto, were destroyed by a flood of water from a broken pipe during the 1930s.
It is difficult to assess why there was such a high ratio of constables to inhabitants in York but it would have had to do with issues other than a high crime rate, the presence of which there is no evidence for.
York Population in 1820: 1,240; in 1825: 1,677.
www.russianbooks.org /crime/cph11.htm   (901 words)

  
 Canada and the United States, 1814 to 1846
There was Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Lower Canada, (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario) - which together had about one-eighteenth the population of the United States.
In the western part of Upper Canada a rebel force of from 500 to 600 was on the move.
Twenty-six rebels crossed into Upper Canada from Grand Island on the south bank of Lake Superior, where they were joined by 22 others, and they defeated a force of 13 British soldiers.
www.fsmitha.com /h3/h40-am.html   (3446 words)

  
 Battle of York
The Battle of York occurred on 27 April 1813 in York, Upper Canada, when the American army landed on the west side of Fort York in what is now Toronto, Ontario.
York (later named Toronto) was the provincial capital of Upper Canada (now the Province of Ontario).
Fort York was under the command of Major General Roger Shaeffe and he had 600 troops of which half were local militia and Indians.
www.udata.com /users/hsbaker/york.htm   (892 words)

  
 William_Lyon_Mackenzie
Mackenzie was born in Scotland and immigrated to Upper Canada in 1820.
From 1824 to 1834 he published the newspaper the Colonial Advocate in York, Upper Canada (Toronto, Ontario), attacking the upper class clique known as the "Family Compact" which was in control of the government.
An amnesty allowed his return to Canada in 1849, and he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1851 to 1858.
www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=William_Lyon_Mackenzie   (249 words)

  
 Rebellion of 1837-39 in Canada (upper Canada)
Kevin Harrington, president of ACV/CFA, informed me at NAVA 32 that it is a wide-spread mistake that the Upper Canada Reformist flag is all blue, coming from the fact that the flag kept in a museum is ripped and some people wrongly assumed that the lower half of the flag was all blue.
The upper half is blue with two white stars, representing the "republics" of Upper and Lower Canada (they were actually colonies, since the rebellions were crushed).
In Upper Canada, at least, it was the Radicals and not the Reformers who were behind the violence in 1837, and they never amounted to more than about a thousand people within a population of about a half-million.
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/ca-1837u.html   (933 words)

  
 SIXTH GENERATION
Marriage Registry indicates they were of the Township of York which indicates they were of the rural area in which the Town of York was situated, not of the Town itself.
It is believed Valentine was known as the "printer of York" in 1808-09 and the one awarded a land grant in 1809 by the York Executive Council.
She died after 1880 in Carlton Township, Orleans County, New York (she was listed as age 96 in 1880 Census)...
www.geocities.com /gpneh_wilson/d442.html   (725 words)

  
 Bank of Upper Canada; York Post Office
The plaque in front of the Bank of Upper Canada building states: “Chartered in 1821, The Bank of Upper Canada, was until its demise in 1866, one of British North America's leading banks.
The Bank of Upper Canada was established in 1821 in York (Toronto, Ontario) under a charter granted by the Province of Upper Canada in 1819.
When Upper and Lower Canada were united in 1841 to form the Province of Canada, the Bank of Montreal was only the bank granted the right to issue copper tokens.
www.lostrivers.ca /points/bofuc.htm   (948 words)

  
 Immigrants to Canada - Petworth Immigrants - 1832
The whole of the expence from Portsmouth to York, Upper Canada, is calculated, for adults, 10£.
The superintendent would also proceed up to the head of Lake Ontario, and land the different parties at York, or any other port, that might be desired, so as to enable those who have any friends already settled in Upper Canada, to join them, with the least possible trouble and expence.
Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada: The Petworth Project, 1832-1837 and English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s are by Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, and Mary McDougall Maude.
ist.uwaterloo.ca /~marj/genealogy/letters/petworth.html   (1240 words)

  
 NAMED CAMPAIGNS - WAR OF 1812   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The invasion and conquest of Canada was a major objective of the United States in the War of 1812.
Among the significant causes of the war were the continuing clash of British and American interests in the Northwest Territory and the desire of frontier expansionists to seize Canada while Great Britain was preoccupied with the Napoleonic Wars.
Casualties were heavy on both sides, the British losing 878 and the Americans 854 in killed and wounded; both Brown and Scott were wounded and the British commander was wounded and captured.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/18cmp.htm   (1336 words)

  
 York, Upper Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
York was the original name of Toronto, Ontario.
The town was established in 1793 by Governor John Graves Simcoe, who believed that York would be a superior site for the capital of Upper Canada, then at Newark (now Niagara on the Lake).
York became the capital of Upper Canada in 1796.
www.city-search.org /yo/york,-upper-canada.html   (84 words)

  
 Upper Canada Rebellion 1837: The End
Moved to York from Niagara Falls in 1797, and was educated by John Strachan at Cornwall.
He was Immigration superintendent, Commissioner of Crown Lands, 1827-1836, Surveyor General of Woods in Upper Canada, Clergy Reserve Commissioner, Member of the Executive Council, 1823-1836, and the Legislative Council, 1829-1838.
He operated as a merchant in York in the 1820s and sat as Director of the Bank of Upper Canada in 1823, 1825, 1827-1828 and 1835.
sg-chem.net /UC1838   (4486 words)

  
 Associate Figures ...Quentin Farkmee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Quentin Farkmee, heir to the Farkmee taffy fortune, was born in York, Upper Canada, on January 27, 1845.
The Farkmee family, originally from Devon, were loyal Tories and one of the pioneers of industry in Upper Canada.
Farkmee returned to Canada settling into the city of London Ontario in the new dominion in 1870.
emilychesley.com /as_fig/farkmee.htm   (958 words)

  
 Upper Canada Genealogy - Upper Canada Chronology
Canada (constitutional) Act; Quebec is divided into Upper and Lower Canada with Upper Canada (now Ontario) containing all that land lying west of the Ottawa River, and Lower Canada (now Quebec) containing all the land lying east
Act of the Upper Canada legislature states that all slave children born in Upper Canada after this time will be free at the age of 25
Act of Union; Upper and Lower Canada become Canada West and East with an elected Assembly; District Councils are established to replace Courts of Quarter Sessions for administrative purposes
www.uppercanadagenealogy.com /chronologyS.html   (1872 words)

  
 Michigan Historical Marker: Matthews Farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Matthews's grandfather, Thomas Elmes Matthews, a Loyalist during the American Revolution, left New York for Upper Canada after the war.
Young Thomas's father, Peter was executed in Toronto in 1838 for his role in the 1837-38 Rebellion of Upper Canada.
This farmhouse, built in 1852, exemplifies plank-frame construction commonly used in Upper Canada during the early nineteenth century.
www.michmarkers.com /Pages/L1926.htm   (112 words)

  
 New York State Library: Annotated Bibliography of Selected New York State Maps: 1793-1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The mapping of New York State from 1784 to 1900 reflects the nationwide development of a uniquely American school of cartography, the changing focus and technology of mapping, and the initial influence of Simeon DeWitt, the State's first surveyor-general.
In 1803, the New York State Senate resolved that a copy of the map, one of the first American-produced officially-sponsored state maps should be sent to each State governor.
When the New York Legislature failed to provide financial support after a series of petitions and bills in 1853, Smith and John Homer French published privately in Syracuse a New York gazetteer and map in 1859, a work which includes a long list of supervisors, surveyors, statisticians and engravers who collaborated in the project.
www.nysl.nysed.gov /msscfa/mapsbibl.htm   (10868 words)

  
 SurlyPundit: A terrifying vision of what might have been
Canada as we know it today didn't exist then, and because of the pressures listed above, there were few venues for that kind of dense, extravagant music.
Signor Tielli's famous anxiety would have been admired as a feature of tumultuous genius, but as composers were often expected to tour with their works and perform, there was little sympathy for cancellations and disappointments.
Signor Bidini, after marrying Gianetta Morassutti, was tied down by the need to support a large family, and was encouraged by his wife to give up music and work for her father.
www.miscellaneousetc.com /surlybird/archives/003251.html   (1288 words)

  
 Blackstocks of (Ontario) Upper Canada
Three of John's sons immigrated to Upper Canada about 1818 and acquired Crown Land in Cavan Twp., an option which was not available to them in land like Ireland where almost everyone was renting from English landlords.
His Land Petition dated at York, Upper Canada 12 June 1822, noted that he was married and this his father and uncle were settled in Cavan, Upper Canada.
BLACKSTOCK, born 21 Jul 1835 in Essa Twp., Simcoe Co., Ontario, Canada; died 16 Dec 1928 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; buried in Wingham Cemetery, Huron Co., Ontario, Canada.
www3.sympatico.ca /karen.black/blackst.html   (9973 words)

  
 Immigrants to Canada - Letters of 1835
Please to tell my dear sister Eliza if I had hearkened to her I never should have been in America; but I only wish she had my spirt to come here too, she would not have to go back again.
We were five weeks coming from Bristol to Quebec, and eighteen days to Little York; we had a very pleasant passage on the ocean, but very rough up the rapids, and that is the reason Mrs.
Give my kind love to little Jane, and tell her I wish she was out here, as she could get as much work as she could do, and good work too-it is 2s.
ist.uwaterloo.ca /~marj/genealogy/letters/letters1835.html   (1019 words)

  
 End Notes for Wixsons
York, Upper Canada: Minutes of Town Meetings and Lists of Inhabitants 1797-1823.
Joseph's DOB from grave stone with exact age and date of death in 1997, confirmed approximately in Men of Upper Canada nominal rolls
Friends of deceased will meet at her late residence at 1 o'clock, on Tuesday the 30th inst., and proceed to the Friend's Burying Ground, Quaker Hill.
www1.xe.net /~mbone/webtree/wixson/endnotes.htm   (428 words)

  
 6th US Infantry, War of 1812
All members are expected to keep their brass polished, leathers cleaned, and a positive attitude towards drill and the Army Regulations of 1794.
The 6th Regiment of United States Infantry is credited with being at the battles Ft. George, York, Beaver Dams, Frenchman's Creek, La Colle Mills, and provided the bulk of the Regulars at Plattsburg.
After the war ended in 1815, the 6th was consolidated with the 16th, 22nd, 23rd, and 32nd Regiments to form the 2nd US Infantry Regiment.
members.cox.net /dskessler/6th_US.html   (508 words)

  
 Historic Maps Of Canada - By Area
A Map of the Province of Upper Canada describing All The New Settlements, Townships, and c.
A Map of part of the Province of Upper Canada shewing the proposed route for a Canal...
A Map of the Province of Upper Canada
www.ssc.uwo.ca /assoc/acml/facsarea.html   (1173 words)

  
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According to "The History of Toronto and the County of York" [2] the family of William Burkholder came to Upper Canada from the state of Maryland when William was about ten years of age.
We first find records of John Burkholder in 1802 when he is shown in the List of Inhabitants for the Township of York [3] along with his wife, three sons and four daughters.
Land Records show that he leased Lot 35 Concession 3 from the Bay a Crown Reserve, on the 21st of December 1802.
www.burkholderfamily.com /john.htm   (222 words)

  
 Sensebach Family Research Association
Many of these families trace back to the early Sensebachs that settled in New York in the early 1700's; the origins of other branches is still not established.
He was born in the colony of New York in 1758, enlisted in the Loyalist forces in 1776 during the Revolutionary War, evacuated to Nova Scotia with the British in 1783, returned to New York in the late 1780's, and removed to Upper Canada with his family in 1797.
She had an opportunity to visit the church and the cemetery where many of the earliest Sensebachs are buried.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Meadows/4596   (3688 words)

  
 Events on the Upper North Side: Canadian News, Events and Culture in New York
Welcome to the Upper North Side, the virtual Canadian neighborhood in New York, where you can find up-to-the minute information on Canadian news and events in the greater New York City area.
On the Upper North Side, we strive to seek out, invent and publicize, in collaboration with American and Canadian partners, the large number of Canadian events - whether dealing with culture, business or public policy - taking place in New York and the surrounding territory.
The Upper North Side website is published for a U.S. audience by the Canadian Consulate General in New York.
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /uppernorthside/menu-en.asp   (269 words)

  
 Amazon.com: York, Upper Canada: Minutes of town meetings and lists of inhabitants, 1797-1823: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Devins Family History
Abraham Devins b: 1793 York Upper Canada; d: 1875 Dresdon Ontario
Nathan Devins I b: 1801 York County Upper Canada; d: Mar 16, 1876
Elizabeth "Betsy" Devins b: 1814 Upper Canada; d: Mar 05, 1839
www.kenora.net /devins   (347 words)

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