This lucky Ontario resident ...

@Degbeme First Monday in August. that's all I know. 😅

@Lilymoon Sounds like someone slept through history class. 🙄

@Degbeme

Who didn't ??


Canadian history .... what a snorefest .... they should have handed out blankets and pillows at the beginning of class..

@SW-User I loved history. It was math that I slept through.

@Degbeme

Opposite for me ,,,,,

I promise not to send you any Math problems or get you to do my taxes..

@SW-User Deal.

@Degbeme Simcoe really? My wife just asked me what it was about or if it's in other provinces... All I could tell her is that I never heard of it until I came here

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP

John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York, which is now known as Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, and freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada.

His long-term goal was the development of Upper Canada (Ontario) as a model community built on aristocratic and conservative principles, designed to demonstrate the superiority of those principles to the republicanism of the United States. His energetic efforts were only partially successful in establishing a local gentry, a thriving Church of England, and an anti-American coalition with select indigenous nations. He is seen by many Canadians as a founding figure in Canadian history, especially by those in Southern Ontario.[1] He is commemorated in Toronto with Simcoe Day.