Happy Simcoe Day!

It’s Simcoe Day here in Ontario ... a civic holiday that honours Colonel John Graves Simcoe. 

Simcoe was a notable figure in history: 

• A hero of the American Revolutionary War 
• Commander of the Queen’s York Rangers 
• Founder of what would become Toronto 
• The first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada 
• Visionary behind the building of Yonge Street 
• He passed legislation that began the process of abolishing slavery in what’s now Ontario, 30 years before the rest of the British Empire and 60 years before Abraham Lincoln did the same in the U.S.