Elizabeth Simcoe
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Dame Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was an English artist and diarist in colonial Canada. Her husband, John Graves Simcoe, was the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Her diary gives an account of C
Portrait by Mary Anne Burges, 1790
A 1793 watercolour painting by Simcoe of York Harbour before settlement. York would become the city of Toronto
Pages 6–7 of Elizabeth Simcoe's diary created between 1795 and 1796 from the Simcoe Family Fonds at the Archives of Ontario
![A watercolour painting by Elizabeth Simcoe created in [April 1792?] depicting a cascade in Wolfe's Cove from the Simcoe Family Fonds](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Cascade_in_Wolfe%27s_Cove_%28I0006888%29.tif/lossy-page1-500px-Cascade_in_Wolfe%27s_Cove_%28I0006888%29.tif.jpg)
A watercolour painting by Elizabeth Simcoe created in [April 1792?] depicting a cascade in Wolfe's Cove from the Simcoe Family Fonds
John Graves Simcoe
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Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe was a British army officer, politician, and colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 to '96. He founded York, the pr
Elizabeth Simcoe
…Dame Elizabeth 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 Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Her diary gives an account of Canadian life. She was born Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim to Lt Col…
Portrait by George Theodore Berthon
A memorial to Simcoe in Exeter Cathedral
The 1903 unveiling of the statue of John Graves Simcoe at Queen's Park in Toronto
Statue of John Graves Simcoe first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada by Walter Seymour Allward 1903 Queen's Park (Toronto)