John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796...
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"Silver Lake". Lake Simcoe's name was given by John Graves Simcoe in 1793 in memory of his father, Captain John Simcoe. Captain Simcoe was born on 28 November...
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A statue of John Graves Simcoe is installed in Toronto's Queen's Park, in Ontario, Canada. The sculpture was created by Walter Allward in 1903. "Explore...
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wife of John Graves Simcoe John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806), British army officer, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada William Simcoe, American...
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Posthuma Simcoe (22 September 1762 – 17 January 1850) was an English artist and diarist in colonial Canada. Her husband, John Graves Simcoe, was the first...
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1980) is an English actor and DJ. He is best known for his role as John Graves Simcoe in the series, Turn: Washington's Spies and Simon "Ghost" Riley in...
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Queen's Rangers (redirect from Simcoe's Rangers)
October 15, 1777, John Graves Simcoe was given command, when the unit became known informally as "Simcoe's Rangers". John Graves Simcoe turned the Queen's...
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Yonge Street (redirect from Simcoe County Road 4)
Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes. Ontario's first colonial administrator, John Graves Simcoe, named the street for his...
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Wolford Chapel in Devon, England, is the burial place of John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. It is the territory of the...
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American Revolutionary War. British forces under Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe and American forces under Colonel Richard Butler, light detachments...
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British forces under the command of Major John Graves Simcoe launched a surprise attack against Brigadier General John Lacey and three regiments of Pennsylvania...
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named by Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe in honour of his father Captain John Simcoe,[citation needed] was established as part of...
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largest community on the shores of the bay is Keswick. It was named by John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, for James Cook, who...
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law and the Catholic religion. The first lieutenant-governor was John Graves Simcoe. The 1795 Jay Treaty officially set the borders between British North...
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John Parr Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning Governor of Upper Canada: John Graves Simcoe Catherine...
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Governor Simcoe Secondary School, named after John Graves Simcoe, is a public high school in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It is a three-floored school...
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Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe. The name for the waterway used in the Toronto Purchase treaty was Etobicoke River. Simcoe in a memo from April...
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Castle Frank Brook (redirect from Francis Gwillim Simcoe)
residence of Ontario's first colonial governor, John Graves Simcoe, which in turn was named for Simcoe's son, Francis Gwillim. It was built either on the...
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Gwillimbury takes its name from the family of Elizabeth Simcoe, née Gwillim, wife of Sir John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. The municipal...
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Governor John Graves Simcoe[...]; Volume III, 1794-1795, pg. 24 Accessed 13 November 2023 January 1794 entries, The Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe (1911)...
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December 2023 "From J.G. Simcoe to John King" (February 16, 1795), The Correspondence of Lieut. Governor John Graves Simcoe[...]; Volume III, 1794-1795...
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Civic Holiday (redirect from Simcoe Day)
Alexander Mackenzie, the 2nd Prime Minister of Canada "Simcoe Day" in Toronto: celebrating John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada and...
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2023 "From Alured Clarke to J.G. Simcoe" (January 21, 1793), The Correspondence of Lieut. Governor John Graves Simcoe(....); Volume I (1923), pg. 276 (PDF...
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the Thames were named after the English city and river in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe, who proposed the site for the capital city of Upper Canada. The first...
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in the area, and lent its name to what became the city of Toronto. John Graves Simcoe identified the area as a strategic location to base a new capital...
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Upper Canada and Lower Canada, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe named the archipelago at the head of the St. Lawrence River for the...
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land grant of 66,000 acres (267 km2) in Oxford County from Governor John Graves Simcoe. He named the new settlement Oxford-on-the-Thames. Ingersoll was named...
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Governor Simcoe may refer to: John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806), Governor of Upper Canada Governor Simcoe Secondary School, a high school in St. Catharines...
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List of University of Toronto buildings (redirect from Simcoe Hall)
of Arts and Science 1961 John B. Parkin Associates Simcoe Hall [SI] 1924 Administration building named for John Graves Simcoe. Houses the Office of the...
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sentries. Upon seeing the disorganized state of the militia, Colonel John Graves Simcoe of the Queen's Rangers ordered his men to engage them right away....
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