Muddy York · event 1 of 5

1793

Simcoe founds York. John Graves Simcoe establishes the capital of Upper Canada here and builds a garrison at Fort York. The town is small, remote and famously waterlogged.

The Muddy York era

  1. 1793
  2. April 1813
  3. 1824
  4. 6 March 1834
  5. 1837

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