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				1  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  by the first governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe, as a military and commercial route between Lakes 
 
			
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				2  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library John Graves Simcoe was born at Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, 
 
			
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				3  Early Days in Richmond Hill: Simcoe and his wife, the gifted artist and diarist 
 
			
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				4  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  leaving Upper Canada in 1796, Simcoe served as governor of the colony of San 
 
			
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				5  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  and strategic reasons. The planner was John Graves Simcoe, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, and his 
 
			
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				6  Early Days in Richmond Hill: Simcoe communicated his delight to Secretary of 
 
			
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				7  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Holland River Indian trails, Simcoe's new route would not follow the natural 
 
			
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				8  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  in support of their French allies, Simcoe realized that the capital of Upper Canada at 
 
			
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				9  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Simcoe transferred the capital across Lake Ontario 
 
			
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				10  Early Days in Richmond Hill: Simcoe knew of at least one old Indian trail running 
 
			
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				11  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  months later, Simcoe strengthened his case for a Yonge Street 
 
			
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				12  Early Days in Richmond Hill: Simcoe was now determined to explore the country 
 
			
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				13  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Hill, the most decisive leg of Simcoe's autumn excursion was the return trip from 
 
			
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				14  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Holland Landing, Simcoe and his party headed south on a new trail 
 
			
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				15  Early Days in Richmond Hill: Simcoe's desire to flatter his British superiors 
 
			
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				16  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Nevertheless, it was a beginning, and Simcoe was pleased. In November 1794 he noted that a 
 
			
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				17  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  between Berczy and Governor Simcoe turned sour, and in May 1796, Simcoe 
 
			
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				18  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  the great road-building project alive while Simcoe's attention was focused 
 
			
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				19  Early Days in Richmond Hill: Governor Simcoe stretched the truth somewhat in his September 
 
			
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				20  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  months of the Yonge Street project, Simcoe and his surveyors relied on soldiers from the 
 
			
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				21  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  this grant was refused, Berczy and Governor Simcoe struck an interesting alternate bargain, 
 
			
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				22  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  in disguise, for it forced Governor Simcoe to turn once again to seemingly more reliable 
 
			
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				23  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  the road was being used. Elizabeth Simcoe noted in her diary in March 1796 that "an Indian 
 
			
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				24  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  settlement, before the arrival of Governor Simcoe and William Berczy and Augustus 
 
			
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				25  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  met across the province. So it was that Governor Simcoe's former Yonge Street stump trail 
 
			
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				26  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Simcoe's Yonge Street plan excluded any Crown 
 
			
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				27  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  proved harder to attain than Governor Simcoe, David Smith, or the Gazette imagined. 
 
			
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				28  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  more fundamental problem lay with Governor Simcoe's rigid enforcement of settlement rules. One 
 
			
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				29  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  of York (England), who was a friend of the Simcoes. Behind Yonge Street, the township 
 
			
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				30  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  of his Colonial Project," Russell wrote Simcoe in May. "He now thinks the distance too great 
 
			
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				31  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  of Upper Canada since Governor Simcoe's departure.
 
			
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				32  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  In June 1793, he petitioned Governor Simcoe for a land grant in Upper Canada, but was 
 
			
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				33  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  group, however, and headed directly for Simcoe's new provincial capital at York. On 
 
			
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				34  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  owners, appear in the picture. When Simcoe's long-feared war with the United States 
 
			
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				35  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Simcoe: The Man Who Planned Yonge 
 
			
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				36  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Simcoe Plans the 
 
			
 
			    
			   		
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