HST 527 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Elizabeth Simcoe, John Graves Simcoe, Toronto Purchase
Document Summary
1763 - end of the seven years war. 10 shillings were given in exchange of/as a token for the new deed essentially lower part of the humber river valley. 2010 - 145 million dollars was given to mississauga first nations to represent the monetary value of the land property. British arriving with and bringing the idea of land ownership and treaties to the first nations who shared the land and didn"t have these concepts in their society this is the fundamental problem. Plan of the harbour of toronto - 1788 what did the british want to do with this land? nothing originally standard colony plans to settle were made (even through there was no support - political of otherwise) British create upper canada and lower canada to support loyalists and provide them with government. British keeping forts for fur trading and relations. Niagara on the lake cannot be the capital so simcoe needs to nd a new location.
