John Graves Simcoe (1752 - 1806) was a British Army general and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and wasinstrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, and freehold landtenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Canada.His long-term goal was the developme...