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JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
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Establishment of Upper Canada, 1791—Simcoe first Governor—Birth and early education—Eton—Oxford—Enters Army—Revolutionary War—Queen's Rangers—Campaigning in the Jerseys—Capitulation of Yorktown—Marriage—Member of Parliament for St. Maws, 1790—Canada in 1791—Government organized 1792—The Miami Forts affair—Visit to Brant—Government of St. Domingo, 1796—Portuguese Commission, 1806—Monument in Exeter Cathedral
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