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The Yonge Street Story, 17931860: An Account from Letters, Diaries and Newspapers,Used
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This is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized by The Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the ambitious Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military route between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Anxious to bolster Upper Canadas defences against the new republic to the south, which he heartily loathed, Simcoe had his Queens Rangers survey and develop the route from Toronto to presentday Holland Landing, and laid out lots for settlement. Even the trusty Rangers, as one surveyor complained in 1799, needed little excuse to lay down tools and vanish "to carouse upon St. Georges day."Handsomely illustrated with the authors drawings, and painstakingly researched, this book captures the notsodistant days when muddy Yonge Street was the backbone of pioneer Ontario.
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