Simcoe's defence planning and route survey
- When
- September 25, 1793
- Where
- Toronto Carrying-Place Trail, between Lakes Ontario and Simcoe
Fearing American intervention in the War of the First Coalition, Simcoe planned a safer capital and overland routes to the upper lakes.
After hostilities between France and Great Britain broke out in 1793, Simcoe worried the United States might enter British North America on the French side. Newark, the former capital, was vulnerable to attack from the nearby American border. He therefore planned to relocate the capital to a better-protected location and to build overland routes to the upper lakes as soon as possible, surveying the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail with soldiers and native guides in September 1793.
Sources
- Yonge Street Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-30
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