Talk:John Graves Simcoe

message: I revised the definition of the territory of Upper Canada in conformity with this authority. John FitzGerald 18:39, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  New definition of territory 

message: Would this picture  be a useful addition?  It's licensed  , and thus available for us.  — Catherine\talk 16:30, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture of statue 

message: Removed below until a section can be properly formulated. Alphageekpa 16:01, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says 1791. The above section is wrong. Vandalism perhaps? -Dhodges (talk) 21:38, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family 

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message: I agree that it would be useful to identify the First Nations that he negotiated with as allies.I would  think they would include the Six Nations of the Iroquois who resettled in Canada. Maybe also the Seven Nations who had been allies during the Revolution; there is overlap among these groups.Parkwells (talk) 17:41, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identify First Nations that became allies 

message: It is unclear to me here if the victims here were rebel/patriot soldiers or civilians. If it's the former the use of the word "massacre" seems a bit loaded. Am I missing some context here?  Either way I think it would be helpful to specify the status of the victims. T.plicata (talk) 17:29, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:   "Simcoe commanded a massacre of ten Americans in their sleep" 

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message: I think the article's coverage of Simcoe's role in dis-establishing slavery requires more work.  It currently says:
: Slavery was thus ended in Upper Canada long before it was abolished in the British Empire as a whole. By 1810, there were no slaves in Upper Canada, but the Crown did not abolish slavery throughout the Empire until 1834.
His act didn't END slavery.  United Empire Loyalists who brought slaves into Upper Canada, prior to the passage of the act, were grandfathered.  
In his memoir Toronto of Old, Henry Scadding writes
: For the romantic sound of the name, the tall, comely negress, Amy Pompadour, should also be mentioned in the record. But she was of servile descent: at the time at which we write slavery was only just dying out in Upper Canada, as we shall have occasion to note hereafter more at large.
Scadding didn't come to Canada, until 1821.  So, was Amy still a slave in 1821?
I did some work on slavery in Upper Canada, and I searched, in vain, for an RS with a date for the manumission or death of the last slave in Upper Canada, so I am not happy that we have an unreferenced date here.  Geo Swan (talk) 05:55, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Call for discussion