The First Meeting of the Executive Council of Upper Canada
Text from the plaque
Because of the Loyalist influx into the western part of Quebec after the American Revolution, the province was divided into Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec). The Constitutional Act of 1791 provided for representative government in each of the new provinces. On July 8, 1792, John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, met his Executive Council in St. George's Church which one occupied this site. In the following three weeks the Council divided the province into counties and allocated representation to the Assembly that was to meet at Newark (later Niagara-on-the-Lake) in September.
Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.
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The County of Frontenac
The City of Kingston
At 310 King Street East, on the north side
between Brock and Clarence streets
N 44 13.803 W 76 28.909
Recorded November 2009. Check current access before visiting.
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