Complex sentence: Simcoe renamed the townsite York, rejecting the aboriginal name and took residence in July 1793, in a tent he purchased from Captain James Cook at the foot of today's Bathurst Street.
Split into simpler sentences: Simcoe renamed the townsite York, rejecting the aboriginal name. Simcoe took residence in July 1793, in a tent he purchased from Captain James Cook at the foot of today's Bathurst Street.