Mr. Wm. R. Riddell allso gives a gpood biography of

William Macomb, of Irisli desœnt, was perhaps the largest land owner at Détroit and a merchant Mghly respected. ïïis familly, like the Babys, is dosely connected with the history of Détroit anid Sandwich.

Besides the (members of the Législature, four officiais deserve a mention in this paper : Littlehales, Small, Jarvis and Bnms.

Brigade Major E. B. littlehales was aide-de-camp and isecnetary to Governor Simcoe. The Duke of LaRochefoucault who vigited Upper Canada at that time says : "I must make particukr mention of the civility shewn us by Major LittlehaleS;, adjutant and first secretary to the GoYemor, a wellbred, mild and amiable man, who has the charge of the whole correspomidenice ol govemment, and acquits hîmself with speciaOj ability and application. He app^ars to possess the confidence of the country. This is not unfrequently the case with men in place and power; but his worth, po'liteness, prudence and judgpient give this offiœr peculiar claims to the ^confidence and respect which he universally enjoys'^ (16). As a writer Major Littlehales is the author of an interesting journal of an exploring excursion from Niagara to Détroit in 1793. It is presumed ihat he left the country with gênerai 'Simcoe as the Ortide (17) of Newark of Feb. 24 1798 states that Coloneil Littlehales is in England. In 1801 he was appointed under-secretary for Ireland and he held this office

bim in the Thirteemth Eeport of the Bureau of Archives of the Province of Ontario.

16. La Rochefoucault-LiancourVs Travels in Canada (1795), with annotations by Sir David William Smith, published in the Thirteenth Eeport of the Bureau of Archives of the Province of Ontario,

17. The Upper Canada Gazette or American Oracle, published from 18th April 1793 to 25 April 1807 (Fourth Report of the Bureau of Archives of the Province of Ontario, 1906).

for nineteen years. He was created a baronet in 1802. The park-lot he o\\^ned at York or Toronto became the proiperty of Captain John Denison and f rom him descended to his heir Colonel George Taylor Denison of military and literary famé, président of the Royal Society of Canada in 1904 (18).

John 'Small, Clerk of the Crown, of the Execntive Coumcil, an Engl'ishman, a perf ect picture of a cheerful, benevolent minded man. His next neighbour in Toronto was John White, attorney-general of the province. There arose between them a difficnlty, and in a dnel, on the 3rd January 1800, White was killed. John SmalU afterwards lived in Toronto for many years and, in 1818, was still a pewholder in St. James Chnrch of that place.

Of William Jarvis, secretary of the conncil and regîstrar for the proyince we know very little except that he was a man of great note in his day and that he serve nnder Governors "Simcoe, Hnnter and Gore. His cousin Stephen Jarvis was long the regîstrar of Upper Canada. They came from a family of very good standing in Connecticut. Both were officers in the Militia and both ieft for Canada as TJ. E. Loyalists.

David Bnrns, first clerk in the govemor's office died in 1806. His administrator was Mr. Secretary Alexander Bums. One of them might hâve been the same as Edward Bnmis appointed clerk of the Crown in 1792.

We might see now what had become of Governor Simcoe after the dose of the first session of the Législature. The winter of 1792-93 was in Upper Canada a favorable one for explorer s. Lake Erie was not frozen over, and there were very little ice on Lake Ontario. Governor Simicoe accompanied by Captain Fitzgerald, Lieutenant Smith of the 5th

18. In 1817, Littleliales assumed fhe name of Baker înstead of Littlehales and became socn after Sir Edward Baker.

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Begiment, M. P.P., Lieutenants Talbot, Grey and Givins, also Major Littlehales, started from Newark on the 4th February, arriving at Détroit on the 18th by a route which was 270 miles in dengtli. The return began on the 23rd and was completed on the lOth of the folowing month.

It was in this expédition that the site of London, on the Thames, was first examined and Judged to be "a situation ©nïinently calculated for the metropolis of ail Canada^'. The intention of the Govemor was that the future capital should be named Georgina, in compliment to George III. We may believe, aLso, that the large subdiYision of Lake Huron, known as Georgian Bay, had for its name a like loyal origin.

There was no printing establishment in the province. The first press probably came from Philadelphia during the winter of 1792-93 and Louis Eoy, the printer, may hâve been from Qu^ebec (19). On the 18th of Aprdl 1793 was issued at Newark the fir&t number of the Upper Canada Gazette or American Oracle^ which was transferred to Toronto in 1800.

The Governor left Newark on the 3rd May 1793 and on the 4th inspected the site where Toronto now stands. He directed Joseph Bouchette to survey the place and ordered the érection of several buildings (20). On the 13th May the Govemor was back again in safety at Newark. The second

19. Louis Roy came from the printing- office of John Neilsom, Québec. Soon af/ter he enlarg^ed his opérations as a printer and no dou'bt that such an establishment was considered a wonderful institution in Little York, nntil the days when the pla<îe having prospered took the name of Toronto.

20. The ArchiA^es were transported from lî^ewark to York in AugTist 1793 just at the moment were a battery of artUlery was firing a salute in honor of a supposed victory of the Buke of York — but it turned to be a defeat. On this occasion the place was named York officially and in the popular saying Lititle York.

eeseion of the Législature opened in that town on the 31st of eame month and closed on the 9th of July.

The Oracle of the 6th Jime contains a very interesting article: "Tuesday last being the anniversary of His Majesty's birthday, His Excellency the Lieutenajit-Governor had a Levée at Navy Hali. At one o'clock the troops in ganison and at Qneenston fired three volleys; the fieid-pieœs above ITavy Hall, under the direction of the Royal Artillery, and the gTins of the Garrison fired a Royai Sainte. His Majesty^e schooner, the Onondago, at anchor in the river, likewise fired a Royal Sainte. Li the evening His Excellency gave a Bail and élégant Supper in the Conncil Chamber, which was most numeronsly attended.'^

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