John Graves Simcoe

John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 to 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. Slavery was ended 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	February 25, 1752
Birth place	Oundle , Cotterstock
Date of death	October 26, 1806
Place of death	Exeter
Education	Eton College Merton College Oxford
Spouse	Elizabeth Simcoe
Children	Castle Frank Brook John Cornwall Simcoe

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