Simcoe
by Zinvolle Art
Title
Simcoe
Artist
Zinvolle Art
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Sculpture of John Graves Simcoe on the Archives and Canadiana Building on campus of University of Toronto, Canada. 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 His bicameral Legislature founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as the courts, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and the abolition of slavery. They 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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December 30th, 2013
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Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Very nice shot and thanks for the educational description. I remember a town called Simcoe, but had forgotten why. L
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