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1793, May 2, Simcoe visits Toronto

in 1700s, 1790s, 1793, PLACES / by The Toronto Project
March 11, 2013

According to Henry Scadding in Toronto of Old, on Thursday, May 9th, 1793, the Niagara-based Upper Canada Gazette reported the following:

On Thursday last his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, accompanied by several military gentlemen, set out in boats for Toronto, round the Head of the Lake Ontario, by Burlington Bay; and in the evening his Majesty’s vessels the Caldwell, and Buffalo, sailed for the same place.

The Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe, had left for Toronto on May 2nd, and would return to Niagara on the 13th, as reported in the May 16th Gazette.

An earlier letter, dated April 5th, 1793, from Simcoe to the Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Quebec, Major-General Clarke, suggests that Simcoe’s May visit to Toronto was his first.

Tags: 1700s, John Graves Simcoe, PLACES
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