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  • Thumbnail for John Graves Simcoe
    is commemorated in Toronto with Simcoe Day. Simcoe was the only surviving son of Cornishman John (1710–1759) and Katherine Simcoe (died 1767). His parents...
    38 KB (4,165 words) - 02:50, 7 July 2024
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    Lake Simcoe is a lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the fourth-largest lake wholly in the province, after Lake Nipigon, Lac Seul, and Lake Nipissing. At...
    24 KB (2,664 words) - 11:11, 8 February 2024
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    Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes. Ontario's first colonial administrator, John Graves Simcoe, named the street...
    67 KB (6,887 words) - 03:00, 26 July 2024
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    Simcoe County is located in the central portion of Southern Ontario, Canada. The county is just north of the Greater Toronto Area, stretching from the...
    48 KB (3,449 words) - 11:09, 29 June 2024
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    by CNR and GO Transit. First known as the Toronto, Simcoe and Huron Railway, and then the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railway, the aim was to provide a...
    21 KB (2,339 words) - 16:55, 9 June 2023
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    of Toronto has a history distinct from that of the city itself. Originally, the term "Tkaronto" referred to a channel of water between Lake Simcoe and...
    35 KB (3,727 words) - 19:04, 26 April 2024
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    Lake Simcoe was then made along Yonge Street, constructed after Simcoe followed the eastern branch into Toronto. Great Indian Warpath Name of Toronto Turner...
    7 KB (843 words) - 03:37, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lower Simcoe Street underpass murals
    Murals were unveiled along the Lower Simcoe Street underpass in Toronto, Ontario, in 2019. Lead artist Tannis Nielsen worked with Indigenous artists to...
    3 KB (200 words) - 09:52, 28 May 2024
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    shores of Lake Simcoe in Simcoe County. The two neighbouring townships of Oro and Medonte were merged in 1994, under a restructuring of Simcoe County. It...
    33 KB (3,388 words) - 09:07, 13 June 2024
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    Simcoe is an unincorporated community and former town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada near Lake Erie. It is the county seat and largest community of Norfolk...
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    son Henry became a prominent figure in Toronto and a well-known historiographer of York and early Toronto. Simcoe died in 1806, and Scadding continued to...
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  • Simcoe County Rovers Football Club is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Barrie, Ontario, that plays in the League1 Ontario Premier men's...
    17 KB (1,014 words) - 02:41, 6 August 2024
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    Posthuma Simcoe (22 September 1762 – 17 January 1850) was an English artist and diarist in colonial Canada. Her husband, John Graves Simcoe, was the first...
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    John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to...
    256 KB (21,461 words) - 01:31, 29 August 2024
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    the western shore of Lake Simcoe in Simcoe County, immediately south of Barrie and 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Toronto. It has historically been a...
    27 KB (2,637 words) - 01:50, 10 May 2024
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    in Simcoe County in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area on the Holland River. West Gwillimbury takes its name from the family of Elizabeth Simcoe, née...
    17 KB (1,114 words) - 15:07, 7 August 2024
  • list of the elementary schools managed by the SMCDSB: Archdiocese of Toronto Simcoe County District School Board Trillium Lakelands District School Board...
    7 KB (217 words) - 18:38, 21 November 2021
  • Lake Simcoe Regional Airport (IATA: YLK, ICAO: CYLS), formerly the Oro Barrie Orillia Regional Airport, is a registered aerodrome that operates as a regional...
    4 KB (271 words) - 10:21, 2 June 2024
  • branch plant and sawmill in New Lowell in Simcoe County in 1854. Hay helped establish the Toronto, Simcoe and Lake Huron Union Railway which passed through...
    3 KB (252 words) - 19:26, 22 September 2021
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    north of Toronto by Lake Simcoe. It has existed on three occasions. Its first incarnation was created in 1966 from parts of Dufferin—Simcoe and York North...
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