John Graves Simcoe’s ambition was to build Upper Canada (the future Ontario) into a prosperous province loyal to the British Crown. To Simcoe that meant English laws and commerce, an efficient road ...
About this time of the year, almost every year, the Toronto papers fill up with complaints against naming a holiday in honour of John Graves Simcoe. The founder of the city that became Toronto ...
Dundas was seen as an important centre in Ontario back in the 1800s. John Graves Simcoe named the place after one of his good friends. An important guy like Simcoe doesn’t take town-namin’ lightly. He ...
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