Alexander Mackenzie was a Canadian politician who served as the second prime minister of Canada,in office from 1873 to 1878.
York was a town and the second capital of the colony of Upper Canada. It is the predecessor to the old city of Toronto (1834–1998). It was established in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as a "temporary" location for the capital of Upper Canada,while he made plans to build a capital near today's London,Ontario. Simcoe renamed the location York after Prince Frederick,Duke of York and Albany,George III's second son. Simcoe gave up his plan to build a capital at London,and York became the permanent capital of Upper Canada on February 1,1796. That year Simcoe returned to Britain and was temporarily replaced by Peter Russell.
Coboconk,often shortened to Coby,is a community in the city of Kawartha Lakes,in the south-central portion of the Canadian province of Ontario. The village lies at the junction of Highway 35 and former Highway 48,on the northern tip of Balsam Lake,the highest point on the Trent–Severn Waterway. Coboconk has a prominent role in the logging,limestone,and tourism industries of the Kawartha Lakes region over the past 150 years.
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John Strachan was a notable figure in Upper Canada,an "elite member" of the Family Compact,and the first Anglican Bishop of Toronto. He is best known as a political bishop who held many government positions and promoted education from common schools to helping to found the University of Toronto.
The Don Jail was a jail in Toronto,Ontario,Canada,located to the east of the Don River,on Gerrard Street East in the Riverdale neighbourhood. The original building was completed in 1864 and was reopened in 2013 to serve as the administrative wing of Bridgepoint Active Healthcare,a rehabilitation hospital located adjacent to the jail. Prior to its adaptive reuse as part of a healthcare facility,the building was used as a provincial jail for remanded offenders and was officially known as the Toronto Jail. The jail originally had a capacity of 184 inmates,and it was separated into an east wing for the men and a west wing for the women.
John Ross Robertson was a Canadian newspaper publisher,politician,and philanthropist in Toronto,Ontario.
The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is a municipal police force in Toronto,Ontario,Canada,and the primary agency responsible for providing law enforcement and policing services in Toronto. Established in 1834,it was the first local police service created in North America and is one of the oldest police services in the English-speaking world.
Lieutenant General Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant (1803–1874) was a British Army officer and governor of Newfoundland from 1847 to 1852. He later became the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1852–1858) and Governor of Malta (1858–1864).
Jesse Ketchum was a tanner and political figure in Upper Canada.
Rob Morris was a prominent American poet and Freemason. He also created the first ritual for what was to become the Order of the Eastern Star.
Arthur Radcliffe Boswell was a Canadian lawyer and politician,including as Mayor of Toronto.
John Hutchison was a Canadian businessman,politician,and mayor of Toronto in 1857. He was born in Scotland and immigrated to Montreal in 1828. He moved to Toronto in 1847 and opened a merchant business. He was also a director on various Toronto public works projects. He was elected as an alderman to Toronto City Council in 1852,but resigned when the council refused to censure the city's mayor. He was again elected to the council in 1856 and was elected the city's mayor the following year. Hutchison's mayoralty occurred during an economic recession and his term was characterized by withdrawing funding from railway projects. The recession caused his business to become bankrupt and he did not run for a council seat upon the end of his mayoral term. Sources differ on when and where Hutchison died;one source says he died in Toronto a few years after becoming mayor,while an obituary states that he returned to Montreal when his term ended and died in Quebec in 1863.
Charles Unwin was a prominent surveyor for the Government of Ontario and the City of Toronto government. Unwin was born in the United Kingdom,and emigrated to Toronto in 1843,and lived with his uncle—also named Charles Unwin. Unwin attended the prestigious Upper Canada College,a private high school attended by many of the leading elements of Ontario's administration. After graduation,he apprenticed with John Stoughton Dennis,completing his apprenticeship in 1852. He spent the next nine years surveying Muskoka County.
John England Ross was an American politician born in Madison County,Ohio. He led volunteer forces from Oregon in the Cayuse War and the Modoc War,prospected for gold in the California Gold Rush,and represented Jackson County,Oregon in the Oregon Territorial Legislature and Oregon State Senate.
William Higgins was the first high constable of the Toronto Police Department,appointed as High Bailiff after Toronto's incorporation in 1834.
George Kingsmill (1808–1852) was the High Constable of Toronto in 1835 and from 1837 to 1846.
James Stitt was High Constable of Toronto. He was born in Ireland in 1804 and emigrated to Canada around 1830. In 1836,he was appointed High Constable of Toronto and served for one year. He subsequently entered the cartage business.
William Pope was an English-Canadian naturalist and amateur painter who lived most of his life in Ontario,Canada. Notable wildlife artist Fenwick Lansdowne stated that Pope "gave us the first comprehensive,well executed pictorial record of Canadian birds." According to Pope's biographer,Pope contributed "a great deal" to Canada's settler heritage through his paintings and journals.
