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York County is a historic county in Upper Canada, Canada West, and the Canadian province of Ontario. It was organized by the Upper Canada administration from the lands of the Toronto Purchase and others.
Lakes and waterways make up most of Ontario's borders with the United States. The province of Ontario shares its border (west to east) with the U.S. states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. The largest provincial international border, most of the border is a water boundary.
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When Europeans first arrived at the site of York, the vicinity was inhabited by the Iroquoian Seneca tribe (from the Five Nations Iroquois of New York State), who by then had displaced the Wyandot (Huron) tribes that had occupied the region for centuries before c. 1600. By 1701, the Iroquoian villages that had been established along the north shore...
Upper Canada was established with a bicameral legislature. The upper chamber, the Executive Council of Upper Canada was appointed by, and served the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. The lower chamber or Legislative Assembly, was elected from the various districts. York was situated in Home District and Home District Councilwas responsible for m...
York's population was primarily from the British Isles (from Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland) with a few other European settlers (French, German and Dutch). York being a garrison town meant there were one or more regiments of Imperial troops stationed there. The officers were considered an acquisition to society, and, "many of the fair daughte...
Armstrong, Frederick H. (1983). Toronto: The Place of Meeting. Windsor Publications (Canada) Ltd. ISBN 0-89781-077-5.Craig, Gerald M. (1963). Upper Canada: The Formative Years, 1784-1841, republished 2013. McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-19-900904-6.Firth, Edith (1960). The Town of York 1793-1815: A Collection of Documents. Toronto: Champlain SocietyPublications.Hounsom, Eric Wilfrid (1970). Toronto in 1810. Toronto: Ryerson Press. ISBN 0-7700-0311-7.Map of York County Click on the map below to see the various Township maps Click here to generate index of people.
In Canada, the territory within Ontario is called the Akwesasne 59 Indian Reserve, and the territory within Quebec is called the Akwesasne Indian Reserve. In the U.S. state of New York, the territory of Akwesasne coincides with what is called the federally recognized St. Regis Mohawk Reservation.
Nov 7, 2023 · USA and Canada map. This map shows governmental boundaries of countries, states, provinces and provinces capitals, cities and towns in USA and Canada. You may download, print or use the above map for educational, personal and non-commercial purposes. Attribution is required.
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Map of Upper Canada by J. Arrowsmith (1837) The 1795 Jay Treaty officially set the borders between British North America and the United States north to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.
