This illustration, by CW Jeffreys, shows the Queens’s Rangers under Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe, cutting out the original Yonge Street, ca. 1795. Library & Archives Canada, C-073665. Augustus Jones, the deputy surveyor of Upper Canada,…

This John Graves Simcoe portrait was painted by Jean Laurent Mosnier and is reproduced courtesy of the Toronto Public Library’s Digital Archive. On October 13, 1793, North Toronto was an endless maze of beech and…