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John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791–1796. Then frontier, this was modern-day southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as the courts, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and in abolishing slavery. He ended slavery in Upper Canada long before it was abolished in the British Empire as a whole – by 1810 there were no slaves in Upper Canada, but the Crown did not abolish slavery throughout the Empire until 1834.

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  • John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791–1796. Then frontier, this was modern-day southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as the courts, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and in abolishing slavery. He ended slavery in Upper Canada long before it was abolished in the British Empire as a whole – by 1810 there were no slaves in Upper Canada, but the Crown did not abolish slavery throughout the Empire until 1834.
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Birth Date
  • 1752-02-25(xsd:date)
death place
  • Exeter, England
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Name
  • John Graves Simcoe
Education
  • Merton College, Oxford
  • Eton College,
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  • Portrait by George Theodore Berthon
Birth Place
  • Cotterstock, Oundle, England
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death date
  • 1806-10-26(xsd:date)
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Years
  • 1790(xsd:integer)
  • 1791(xsd:integer)
  • 1798(xsd:integer)
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Relations
  • Katherine
  • Anne Simcoe
  • Charlotte Simcoe
  • John Kennaway Simcoe
  • Philip Francis Simcoe son of Henry Addington
  • Henry Walcot Simcoe - son of Henry Addington, grandson of J.G. Simcoe
  • Anne Eliza Marke Simcoe - daughter of Henry Addington Paul Creed Guillim Simcoe - son of Henry ddington
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Occupation
  • First lieutenant governor of Upper Canada
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