account of the voluminous correspondence he carried on, which was preserved, copies of which are in the Canadian Archives and known as the Haldimand Collection.

Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hamilton figures in the Revolutionary War, in the expedition against Vincennes in 1778. He had been appointed Civil Governor of Detroit in 1777, and his march on Vincennes was ordered by

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He was captured and subjected to great hardship by the soldiers of Washington. He was a member of the Council at Quebec, and was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Canada in 1785.

Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hope was a member of the Legislative Council and assumed the government in 1787, pending the return of Lord Dorchester from Britain. He died at Quebec on the 13th April 1789.

Lieutenant-Governor Alured Clarke had a long and distinguished military career. His stay in Canada was a short one. He succeeded Col. Hope in 1790 as Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, and acted as Administrator during the absence of Lord Dorchester in Great Britain. He was a careful

and capable business man. As Administrator he had the honor of issuing the proclamation of 18th November 1791 bringing into operation the Act dividing the Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. He was born about 1745. He served in Germany under Lord Granby in 1759 and with Howe at New York. He was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica 1782-90. After he left Canada he reduced the Cape of Good Hope and won a Knighthood. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Madras in 1795, relinquishing that important post in 1797 for the command and governorship of Bengal. He was then Governor-General of India for a short time and in 1798 became Commander-in-Chief of the forces in India. In 1802 he was made a General in the Army, having returned from India, and his long career was crowned in 1830 by his being raised to the rank of a field marshal. He lived until 1832.

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Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe, stands out as the first ruler of the Province of Upper Canada, and that fact added to the important part he played in laying the foundation of the Province, gives special interest to his career and personality. He was born in 1752 at Cotterstock, England and was the son of Captain John Simcoe Commander of H.M.S. "Pembroke," who was killed at Quebec in 1759. John Graves was the elder of two sons, and his brother was drowned shortly after his father's death. Young Simcoe was educated at Exeter, at Eton, and at Merton College, Oxford. In his nineteenth year he joined the Army with an ensigny in the 35th regiment of the line, and left for America almost immediately. served as Adjutant of the 35th. and then purchased a Captaincy in the 40th, regiment. In 1777 he obtained the command of the Queen's Rangers, a mounted infantry partisan Corps recruited in and near New York. Under him the Corps became famous for gallant exploits. At the close of the War he returned to England, and not long afterwards married Miss Guillim. In 1790 he was elected Member of Parliament, for St. Maw's, Cornwall, but resigned on having been selected as first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1791. He was accompanied to his new post by his wife and young family. They landed in Quebec in November 1791 and wintered there. On the 8th of July he arrived in Kingston, and proceeded at once to organize his government. From Kingston he went to Newark, the provincial capital, and there, remained until the seat of government was removed to Toronto. Under his governorship the first parliament of Upper Canada was opened on the 17th September 1792. In 1796 he was recalled and was appointed Governor of San Domingo. In 1798, he became a Lieut. General, and in 1806 was appointed successor to Lord Lake as Commander-in-Chief of India, but died at Torbay before going out to India to assume command. He left a lasting impression on Ontario and is held in high esteem as a farseeing, and enlightened statesman. His name has been perpetuated in some important place-names in Ontario, and an heroic statute in bronze has been erected in his honor at Toronto.

Major Samuel Holland was trained as an engineer officer, and as such acted with Wolfe at Louisbourg and Quebec. He was subsequently Surveyor-General "of the Colonies north of Virginia." He operated extensively on the surveys in the New England colonies. In the Revolutionary War, he adhered to the Crown and settling in Quebec, resumed his duties as Surveyor-General. It was under his direction that the first surveys of the upper St Lawrence and the Bay of Quinte were made. He was a gentleman of education, refined tastes and good social qualities. He acquired 200 acres on the brow of St Foy heights Quebec, in 1780 which had belonged to M.