Pioneer Days in London

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Excerpt from Pioneer Days in London: Some Account of Men and Things in London Before It Became a City It was about this time that the addition of a large number of English-speaking immigrants to the population of Canada gave rise to considerable confusion in the administration of the affairs of the colony. So the British Government adopted the expedient of dividing it into two - Upper and Lower Canada - each province with its lieutenant-governor, and a governor-general over all. Lord Dorchester held the latter position, while Col. John Graves Simcoe was appointed to take charge of Upper Canada. He was a British officer, who had served in the Revolutionary war. He had no love for the Yankees and looked forward to another war. His first object, therefore, was to see about the defences of his province. On his way to Upper Canada, in December, of 1791, he studied all the maps he could find in the Surveyor's office in Montreal, and came to the conclusion that La Tranche was a big water way, and that some where along its course he would find a central spot that would suit him for the site of a capital. He proposed to start on an exploring expedition the next year. But he did not. Other matters interfered, and it was not until February, 4th 1793, that he was able to leave his temporary headquarters at Niagara and look over the ground to the west. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.