Gh ill health. His efforts for the autonomy of the

T require any extended space in this work. Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe,
who had distinguished himself during the war for independence as a
commander of the Queen's Rangers, was a skilful and able administrator,
who did his best to develop the country. It was during his regime that
Toronto, under the name of York, was chosen, by the influence of Lord
Dorchester, as the capital in place of Newark, which was too close to
the American frontier, although the Lieutenant-Governor would have
preferred the site of the present city of London, on the River {310}
Thames, then known as La Tranche. Mainly through his efforts a
considerable immigration was attracted from the United States. Many of
the new settlers were loyal and favourable to British institutions, but
in the course of time there came into the country not a few
discontented, restless persons, having radical and republican
tendencies. Among the important measures of his administration was an
act preventing the future introduction of slaves, and providing for the
freedom of children of slaves then in the province. Governor Simcoe
devoted his energy not only to the peopling of the province, but to the
opening up of arteries of communication, of which Yonge and Dundas
Streets--still well-known names--were the most noted. The founder of an
important settlement in the west, an eccentric Irishman of noble
ancestry, Colonel Thomas Talbot, was a member of the
Lieutenant-Governor's staff, and eventually made his home in the western
part of the province, where he became a useful and influential pioneer.
Among the most desirable immigrants were the Scotch Highlanders, who
settled and named the county of Glengarry, and came to the country by
the advice of the energetic and able priest, Macdonell, afterwards the
first Roman Catholic bishop of Upper Canada. In Nova Scotia a number of
Scotch settled in Pictou

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