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John Graves Simcoe

1752–1806 · 18th century

John Graves Simcoe was a British army officer who commanded the Queen's Rangers in the American Revolutionary War. As the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 to 1796 he encouraged Loyalist settlement, laid out roads such as Yonge Street and moved the capital from Newark to York, the future Toronto. He also banned the import of slaves in 1793.

John Graves Simcoe
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Upper Canada

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