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- Toronto
- 1 for communication with the Town of York and the rest of the
- 2 in 1794 moved the government offices to York (now Toronto). Simcoe's progressive
- 3 the 4th Concession Line of the Township of York between Lots 20 & 21 [and] got to York
- 4 laying down His Excellency's Route from York to Lake Huron.
- 5 that there is an easy Portage between York and the Waters which fall into Lake Huron of
- 6 you have been enabled to trace between York & Lake Huron, is of great importance & must
- 7 run straight as an old Roman road, from York to Holland Landing. The
- 8 Bay, where he founded the town of York. Next, he laid plans for two major roads to
- 9 road from Holland Landing south to York. In May, his colleague Alexander Aitkin
- 10 Bay "had cattle driven to him from York in six days." Equally important, "half the
- 11 years, he moved back and forth from York to Montreal, and from London to New York, in
- 12 open a cart road from the harbour at York to Lake Simcoe. Four days later, thirty
- 13 Yonge Street was completed from York to the Holland
- 14 way from Georgian Bay to the village of York "in five days, & said they could have
- 15 of Lot 46E, although he was living "at York." But from there all the way north to
- 16 house" on this property.] Lot 66E James Pitney (York), three-quarters of an acre partly
- 17 36W Stephen Colby, "sometimes at York," half acre partly cleared. Lot 36E Abner
- 18 by a British soldier in an incident at York.
- 19 more resentful. Colonial officials at York and Niagara began to fear the possiblity of
- 20 Hill, Bond spent most of his time in York, running various business enterprises and
- 21 because they impressed the officials at York with their connections, their experience, or
- 22 were appointed by the authorities at York. Nicholas Miller was one of those appointed as
- 23 enthused the Upper Canada Gazette of York, would "benefit this country materially, as it
- 24 entire length of Yonge Street, from York to Newmarket, provincial surveyor
- 25 Richmond Hill itself. Closer to York, and with their streams and mills, York
- 26 his wife, and two sons arrived in York at the end of June 1797, then travelled up
- 27 of a public market that was to open in York the next year, where we could sell any of the
- 28 on foot to the new provincial capital at York.
- 29 and drove many of the settlers to York in search of food. Peter Buckendahl of
- 30 they preferred the society of York, such as it was, to the hardships of pioneer
- 31 George moved on to Niagara, then eventually York, where he prospered in the retail
- 32 (about sixteen miles) north of York also presented advantages to the Upper
- 33 de Puisaye's followers arrived at York. Colonial officials gave them rations,
- 34 and thawing ground made the road to York impassable for days at a time. There were
- 35 and his businesses north from the town of York to land he owned at the corner of Yonge
- 36 Simcoe's new provincial capital at York. On August 26, he contracted to build a large
- 37 Miles prospered during his few years in York. He worked as a contractor and lumber
- 38 1800 his various business endeavours in York seem to have encountered rough times. 3
- 39 same trade that he had at Genesee and York. Across the road, on Lot 45 West, he operated
- 40 by the dull routine of garrison duty at York during the fall and winter of 1812-13.
- 41 and temporarily occupied the town of York. Everyone knew where James Fulton and
- 42 that "while the Enemys forces were in York," Lyon or Lyons was seen "drawing with his
- 43 the urban establishment figures in York - a traditional farm-versus-town,
- 44 though a precarious one, between York and the Upper Lakes. Yonge Street ended at
- 45 families in the countryside north of York - especially since for many years he was the
- 46 apparently healed, and he continued on to York and western Upper Canada, returning east to
- 47 enough to greet the daily stagecoach from York or Holland Landing, a new transportation
- 48 themselves with the colonial elite in York. They felt themselves superior to the
- 49 re-election as Reform members for York. Again in 1834 and 1836, following a
- 50 Mackenzie, the fiery Scot who sat for York in the Assembly, served as the first mayor of
- 51 district. With many friends among York's leading citizens, they naturally allied
- 52 Richmond Hill and all of York, together with Metropolitan Toronto - had
- 53 was wounded in the American attack on York, and rose to the rank of colonel. After the
- 54 established regular coach service between York and Holland Landing in 1828, the
- 55 stage operating between Newmarket and York. Southbound stages arrived at 9:00 a.m. and
- 56 in April 1865, the province sold the York roads to the York County Council for
- 57 Street immediately north of the York town limits. Crushed stone would be laid six
- 58 in August 1850 announced the sale of the "York Roads" to Toronto businessman James
- 59 1822, in Tipperary, Ireland, and came to York, Upper Canada, two years later, where he
- 60 the Highlands of York to Bond Lake
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