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York is a district and former city within Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located northwest of Old Toronto, southwest of North York and east of the Humber River. Originally formed as York Township, it encompassed the southern section of York County. It was split several times, creating East York and North York.
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 .
Not to be confused with Northern Canada. ∟ Ontario. The Province of Upper Canada (French: province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763.
Feb 7, 2006 · Upper Canada was the predecessor of modern-day Ontario. It was created in 1791 by the division of the old Province of Quebec into Lower Canada in the east and Upper Canada in the west. Upper Canada was a wilderness society settled largely by Loyalists and land-hungry farmers moving north from the United States.
Mar 22, 2011 · At dawn, a flotilla of 16 American ships under Commodore Isaac Chauncey made its way to the capital of Upper Canada, York [Toronto]. Landing to the west, the Americans suppressed the small group of warriors defending the shore, while knocking out the town's meagre batteries.
s the capital of Upper Canada, York was a natural objective of the United States during the War for political and military reasons. Some shipbuilding for the Lake Ontario squadron was undertaken at York and it served as a depot for the distribution of supplies to Niagara, Detroit and the western posts on Lake Huron.
The founding of York, which would later become Toronto, was a strategic decision made by John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. In 1793, Simcoe chose the site of present-day Toronto as the new capital of Upper Canada, replacing Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake).
