Читать книгу The Life and Times of Gen. John Graves Simcoe - D. B. Read - Страница 15
Last Days in Canada.
Оглавление| Surveyor Jones reports to Governor—Yonge Street opened out to Lake Simcoe—Opening of Fifth Session of Parliament—At close of Session Governor takes up subject of Lands—His Policy a Fair and Just one—List of Applicants for Lands in Walsingham, Charlotteville, Woodhouse and Long Point—Governor Favours the United Empire Loyalists—Brant and the Land Jobbers—Plain Speaking by Brant—Monument to Brant—General Review of Governor Simcoe's Policy and Government—He fully understood the Policy of British Government in dividing Quebec into two Provinces—The logic of Events has proved that Mr. Pitt was much too Sanguine in his hope of Amalgamating French with English, either in People or Laws, in Lower Canada—On 3rd December, 1796, Governor Simcoe Appointed Governor of Saint Domingo, and Commander-in-Chief; also Appointed to the local rank of Lieutenant-General—In 1798, Simcoe made a Lieutenant-General in the British Army—Peter Russell appointed Governor—His Administration—The Navy of the Lakes—Channel of Trade—Danforth Road—Marriages—Militia Lieutenants of Counties—Peter Hunter appointed Governor—Simcoe and the Quakers—Alexander Grant appointed Governor | 260-286 |
