| 1752 |
Feb |
25 |
John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, born in Cotterstock,
England |
| 1758 |
Aug |
27 |
French surrender Fort Frontenac
(Kingston, Ontario) to British Colonel John Bradstreet |
| 1759 |
Jul |
24 |
Indians
and British led by Sir William Johnson capture Fort Niagara from French
forces |
| 1759 |
Sep |
13 |
English defeat French on the Plains of Abraham;
both leaders, Wolfe and Montcalm killed. |
| 1760 |
Aug |
25 |
Britain's Jeffrey Amherst defeated Pierre Pouchot in France's last stand in North
America |
| 1771 |
Aug |
15 |
Scottish
writer Walter Scott born |
| 1776 |
Feb |
15 |
American Benjamin Franklin tried but failed to annex Canada |
| 1780 |
|
|
Future
Long Point Settler Peter Secord became the first to begin farming west of
the Niagara River in Upper Canada |
| 1780 |
May |
19 |
The Dark Day. Darkness fell at 2 p.m. in Canada
and New England, for no
known reason. |
| 1780 |
Aug |
02 |
Future Townsend Township resident, Mary Stitt, 7, kidnapped from
her New York home by
Indians |
| 1782 |
Aug |
25 |
Col. John Bulter's Niagara settlement census counted 83 people, 16 families |
| 1783 |
Dec |
24 |
Loyalists disbanded; officers put on half pay. |
| 1784 |
Jun |
16 |
250 United Empire Loyalists land at Bay of
Quinte (eastern Ontario), established Adolphustown |
| 1785 |
Apr |
21 |
Trial by jury established in Upper Canada |
| 1785 |
May |
18 |
John Stuart opened Upper Canada's first school at Kingston |
| 1785 |
May |
23 |
Benjamin
Franklin invented bifocal eye glasses. |
| 1788 |
Jul |
24 |
Guy Carleton divides western part of Quebec (later Upper Canada, now Ontario) into four
governable districts: Mecklenburgh, Nassau, Lunenburgh, and Hesse |
| 1789 |
Apr |
11 |
Nancy Manuel, the eldest of Five
Sisters of St. Williams born. Collectively the five sisters lived a total of 429
years |
| 1789 |
Dec |
27 |
Upper Canada's first stagecoach service began,
between Queenston and Fort Erie |
| 1791 |
Dec |
26 |
Constitutional Act divided the Province of Quebec into two provinces:
Upper Canada (now Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec) |
| 1792 |
Feb |
07 |
John Graves Simcoe advertises free land in Upper Canada for British Loyalists,
particularly American Revolution Loyalists. |
| 1792 |
Jun |
22 |
First Methodist Church in Canada founded at Adolphustown |
| 1792 |
Jul |
16 |
John Graves Simcoe organized Upper Canada into
19 counties |
| 1792 |
Sep |
17 |
First session of Upper Canada Legislature opened by John Graves Simcoe |
| 1793 |
Apr |
18 |
The first issue of Upper Canada's first newspaper, Upper Canada Gazette,
published at Newark |
| 1793 |
Jun |
08 |
First settlers arrived at Smith's Cove (Port Hope, Ontario) by boat |
| 1793 |
Jul |
09 |
Upper Canada passed law banning the import of slaves (first such law in British
Empire) |
| 1793 |
Aug |
24 |
John Graves Simcoe celebrated the name change of Toronto to York |
| 1793 |
Sep |
28 |
Upper
Canada passed law decreeing slave children born in Canada from this day
forward are to be freed when they are 25 |
| 1793 |
Sep |
29 |
John Graves Simcoe named Lake Simcoe after his father |
| 1794 |
Mar |
26 |
Peter Fairchild's daughter Sarah
became one of the first white children born in what would become Townsend Township, Norfolk County |
| 1796 |
Feb |
01 |
Upper Canada's capital moved from Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) to York (Toronto) |
| 1796 |
May |
13 |
Colonel John Butler of Butler's Rangers, died at Newark |
| 1796 |
Jun |
17 |
Scarborough, Ontario settled |
| 1796 |
Jun |
23 |
Donald McCall
party arrived at mouth of Big Creek in Long Point Bay |
| 1796 |
Jul |
21 |
Ill, Lt.-Gov. John Graves Simcoe sailed from York for England, where he later died |
| 1796 |
Aug |
11 |
As per Jay's Treaty, British left Fort Niagara for the Americans |
| 1798 |
Oct |
03 |
Jemima Fairchild became first
white woman to die at Long Point |
| 1798 |
Dec |
29 |
Presbyterian, Lutheran and Calvinist clergy joined Anglican clergy and Justices of the
Peace on the list of those authorized to perform marriages in Upper Canada |
| 1799 |
Jul |
20 |
Canada Constellation, Upper Canada's first independent newspaper first
published at Newark |
