About this Event The colonial history of Upper Canada often focuses on our first lieutenant-governor, John Graves Simcoe, but over the past 200 years, his wife Elizabeth has often been overlooked. However, it'd be impossible to properly describe the early life of either Upper Canada, or its capital in the Town of York, without referring...

About this Event It is difficult for our 21st century selves to contemplate a time when handwriting was the only means of sending a thought any distance. When Toronto incorporated as a City in 1834, it was already a bustling capital of just over 9000 inhabitants, most of whom were recent immigrants, having left family...