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AN ADDEESS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 OF THR COUNTY OF YORK 
 
 On thf. FiXHir.iTioN (lK«>rM».<. T«>k.,nto. .)i ni; IH, IH91 
 
 BY 
 
 MENK'V ^CAUDir<(T, U.U. 
 
 I'/e.fiiifHt of th< St»-ifty. 
 
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A.N ADDIiESS. 
 
 IT is proper tliut some exphmation slioiiM be given 
 of the variation in the practice of our Society 
 which has this year taken place. 
 
 The practice of our Society has hitherto been to 
 make its annual hoHday the occasion of an excursion 
 to some city or town situated within a convenient dis- 
 tance from Toronto. Hamilton has been visited by us 
 inthis way, and Guel[)h, Poterboro, Brantford, Bramp- 
 ton, Niagara and Orillia. Of all these places we 
 have very pleasant recollections connected with our 
 annual outing, having received in every one of them 
 a most kind and cordial public welcome at the hands 
 of the Mayor and Corporation of those several places 
 respectively. 
 
 But at the present year we have thought it desir- 
 able to make an exception to our rule. The year 
 1891 is to u« in the Province of Ontario a cen- 
 tennial year, and we thought it would be fitting 
 that we should mark its occurrence by keeping our 
 annual holiday here at home, as it were, in Toronto, 
 the Capital of the Province. 
 
 The year IHUl is the 100th anniversary of the 
 existence of this Province, regarding it as being 
 identical with the old Province of Upper Canada, 
 which it certainly is in fact. 
 
 In the year 1701 was passed by the Imperial 
 Parliament of Great Britain the famous Act which 
 divided the ancient Province of (^lebec into the two 
 distinct Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, 
 which Act passed its third reading on May 18th, 
 1791. The arrangements prescribed in that Act 
 
were carried into effect in the following year by the 
 summoning of the first Purliament of Upper Canada, 
 which was opened by Governor Siracoe with a 
 Speech from the Throne at Niagara, the 17th Sep- 
 tember, 17<J2. 
 
 We hope that you all fully concur with us in our 
 considering it appropriate that we should as a Pio- 
 neer and Historical Society distinguish the present 
 year in the manner which we have done. We are 
 living in a period of centennials as it were. It is 
 curious to find ourselves making common use of 
 such dates as 1891, 181)2-93 and so forth, which 
 sound in some manner so familiar l,o us already. 
 Our grandfathers, who lived amon;^ the stirring 
 events of 1792, The Reijzn of Terror; 1793, Decapita- 
 tion of Louis XVI. and his Queen ; 1796, Napoleon's 
 first appearance on the scene. Those dates are so 
 powerfully impressed on the minds of us, their 
 grandchildren, that it seems quite ?tart'ing to find 
 ourselves living in years whose dates have a 
 look and sound so similar. Let us congratulate 
 ourselves and be thankful that the times in which we 
 live are in many respects better than those which 
 kept our forefathers 1()0 years ago so long in a state 
 of apprehension and unrest. 
 
 One other centenary just about to occur, suggested 
 by the group of dates to which I have referred, must 
 not be omitted — the centenary of the city of Toronto 
 itself. In 1793, the city of Toronto, under the name 
 of York, was first surveyed and laid out on paper 
 under the immediate inspection of Governor Simcoe, 
 and in 1794 it began its actual existence in the form 
 of a few buildings constructed of hewn logs or 
 framed timber, bricks and mortar being used solely 
 in the erection of chimneys and ovens and in a base- 
 ment or two where greater importance was aimed at. 
 It goes without saying, that we shall all observe the 
 year 1892 as a centennial, occurring for the fourth 
 time of the discovery of our continent by Columbus. 
 
 
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 It iH very pleasant to see the assemblage whieli is 
 {fathered ton;ether here on the present occasion. It 
 expresses the warm fellow-feeling; which you have in 
 regard to the object which our Society aims to 
 accomplish. 
 
 As a Pioneer and Hisiorical Society we are 
 l)anded together and incori)orated for the preserva- 
 tion of the memory and actions of the sturdy enter- 
 prising men who gave the first start to the agricul- 
 ture, the commerce, the education, the military 
 defence, and the jurisprudence of this country. 
 
 A well-known old Uoman poet has said that there 
 were plenty of brave men before Agamemnon, but their 
 fame and' example have been lost to posterity 
 beciiuse they did not happen to have a chronicler 
 and sacred bard that Agamemnon was so fortunate 
 as to meet with. 
 
 We desire to prevent the utter <»blivion of the 
 organizers and first followers of our country who 
 did such good service in the past for us, their 
 descendants. The same task which we have under- 
 taken for the county of York and city of Toronto has 
 been undertaken by the pioneer and historical societies 
 which have lately been founded in several other 
 counties of Ontairo, and which we hope will ere 
 long be founded in every one of the counties of 
 Ontario. 
 
 The report of the proceedings at Brampton a few 
 weeks ago of the General Pioneer and Historical 
 Society of Ontario is very cheering in this respect. 
 Of that Society we have in the present assemblage 
 several representatives who w ill in due com-se address 
 us. What all the societies of this description aim 
 at is that the memory and example of our brave men 
 in the past, our pioneers and founders of communi- 
 ties, should not be utterly lost. Our pioneer and 
 historical societies are to furnish the chroniclers 
 who are not to allow the achievements and wisdom 
 of our worthy forefathers to perish— chroniclers 
 
eitlier in prone or verse ; aiul aJrcjuly tljc* good work 
 luiH begun. 
 
 In numerous special papers that have heeu read 
 from time to time at gatheriiigH of our historical 
 societies, most valuable records have been made of 
 Canadian local history in prose, and tiilented bards 
 have not been wanting to sing of our heroic past as 
 witness a Kirby, a Mair, and oth( rs, among them an 
 honoured member of our own Toronto Society here 
 present, Mrs. Curzon. All priiuitiv(! annals, sacred 
 as wt'U as secular, derive much of their charm from 
 narratives and documents, hoinely, miscellanetnis, 
 and often metrical in form, resembling those which 
 the local writers referred to have put together and 
 given to the world. 
 
 Members of the Local Gtnernment bave expressed 
 a willingness to help forward a scheme fo" preserving 
 family manuscripts and fugitive documents bearing 
 on the early history of the country, likely otherwise 
 to be irretrievably lost. It is possible that in this 
 way a volume may from time to time be printed con- 
 taining very valuable and most interesting matter. 
 It will be our duty to unite in pressing upon the 
 Government the execution of some such plan. Many 
 papers and documents now in the possession of our 
 societies may thus be permanently en-registered and 
 several pieces that have already been committed to 
 print, but which from their isolation are still in some 
 danger of being lost, may be printed aga.^^. ; I refer 
 to such documents as Alajor Littlehale's journal and 
 Governor Simcoe's letter to Sir Joseph Bankes, both 
 published not long since by myself, the interesting 
 journal of Surveyor-General liidout, to be seen in 
 Mrs. Edgar's lat-ely published work, the journal of 
 Hon. Alexander Macdonnell kept during the first 
 exploratory tour to Matchedash Bay and Penetan- 
 guishene in 1793, and other documents of a similar 
 description not yet in print. In the Crown Lands 
 Department of Ontario the Field Notes and other 
 
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nianiiscript of the pioneer land .siirvevor, Aiif^'Ubtus 
 JoneH, are still preserved, which would all prove of 
 a widespread [)ul)lie interest couM Ihey once he made 
 to see the light through the puhlic press. 
 
 Memher.s of the f ocal Govenunent have likewise 
 expressed a willinf:jness to establish in some fitting 
 place a museum of relics other tlian thc-e literary 
 ones, illustrative of our past and i)ioneer life "^'enerally. 
 This is an idea which we must all feel pleased to 
 promote. 
 
 Already has such an iden heen hroached in our 
 Society for the County of York, and in fact we have 
 made a slight commenceu » nt of such a collection ; 
 but I think that the formation of a museum which 
 would be worthy of our '^'ocietv and of the country at 
 large is miich beyonu our cajip^wity. and it will be 
 the wiser plan to fall in with the (lovernment 
 {arrangement, whatever it may prove to be, when 
 convenient quarters will doubtless be found for our 
 collection, together with the collections prol>ably of 
 the other County Pioneer Societies, within the walls 
 possibly of the new Parliamert JJuildings themselves. 
 
 Another project which I confidently trust all our 
 Pioneer and Historical Societies will unite in pro- 
 moting among tliemselves, and with the members of 
 the (Tovernment, is the speedy erection of a monu- 
 ment to Governor Simcoe, the organizer of the Pro- 
 vince of Upper Caniada and founder of the city of 
 Toronto, — this monument to be appropriately placed 
 in front of the main entrance to the new Parliament 
 Buildings in the Queen's Park at Toronto. 
 
 I have heard it stated that for the execution of 
 such a statue it will be difficult to procure a proper 
 likeness of Governor Simcoe, but this is bv no means 
 the case. A copy of the identical likeness which 
 furnished the model for the head of Governor Simcoe 
 on the marble monument erected to his memory in 
 the Cathedral at Pjxeter, Devonshire, England, w.^s 
 furnished to me some twenty years ago b}' Capt. 
 
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 John Kennaway Simcoe, R.N., j^andson and lineal 
 representative of Governor Simcoe, from which the fine 
 lire-sized portrait of our first Governor was painted 
 for the collection of gubernatorial portraits now 
 adorning the interior of Government House, Toronto. 
 In constructing a model for the statue proposed 
 in front of the Parliament Buildings, no deviation 
 from this most authentic likeness must be permitted. 
 I make this remark becaune a slight confusion seems 
 to have been created in the minds of some persons 
 of our community, through the existence in London, 
 Ontario, of a portrait in oil supposed to be a likeness 
 of the first Governor of Upper Canada, which differs 
 materially from the portrait furnished me by Capt. 
 Simcoe. 
 
 I have at this moment in my pocket express 
 authority in writing from the present representative 
 of the Simcoe family to declare that the oil portrait 
 referred to is, through a mistake, not authentic, and 
 that the only portrait of the first Governor to be 
 recognized is that which was furnished to me some 
 twenty years since by Capt. Simcoe as already 
 stated.* 
 
 It is much to be desired that the people o' our 
 Canadian London should have in their midst a truth- 
 ful portrait of Governor Simcoe. It would not be 
 difficult for them to obtain a replica of the excellent 
 painting of the Governor by Berthon, now to be seen 
 in Government House, Toronto. 
 
 • Mrs. Simcoe, widow of the late Captain John Kennaway Simcoe 
 of the Royal Navy, writes me as follows from Wolford, near Honiton, 
 Devoii, under the date March 30, 1891 : And now to answer yonr 
 questinn. The picture you mention, and which now hangs in our 
 hall, is twt authentic. My late husband detested it. ' It bears no 
 resemblance to the miniature we sent you from which the medallion 
 in the Cathedral was copied, or to the large picture of the "Three 
 Friends," rne of them being General Simcoe as a jvrp young man. 
 the green coat seems the only thing, and even that is not a uniform 
 coat ; the flowing hair is hideous, and the face coarse and unpleanant. 
 We entirely repudiate it. And indeed the lady who sent it to Mifw 
 Simcoe called it a miniature, so we doubt that what i«he intended 
 shoulil be sent ever came, for no one oonld describe it as a "miniature." 
 
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