Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 : electronic edition.

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Table of Contents

	Title Page
	Author's Preface
1	The Road through Richmond Hill
2	First Peoples on the Land
3	The European Settlers Arrive
4	From Miles' Hill to Richmond Hill: The Birth of a Community
5	Tories and Reformers
6	Stagecoach Lines and Railway Tracks
7	The Neighbours at Mid-Century
8	Fire Brigades and Fence Viewers
9	Picture Post Card Village of the 1880s and 1890s
10	Rails through Richmond Hill
11	The Flowering of Richmond Hill
12	The Village Transformed
	Epilogue
	Appendices
	Table of Illustrations
	Index

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

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