He received a land grant in Sophiasburgh. Wilson was a Methodist. His election in 1808 was declared invalid in 1810, but he was reelected in 1820, 1825, 1828 and 1834.
York was a town and second capital of the district of Upper Canada. It is the predecessor to the old city of Toronto (1834–1998). It was established in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as a "temporary" location for the capital of Upper Canada, while he made plans to build a capital near today's London, Ontario. Simcoe renamed the location York after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, George III's second son. Simcoe gave up his plan to build a capital at London, and York became the permanent capital of Upper Canada on February 1, 1796. That year Simcoe returned to Britain and was temporarily replaced by Peter Russell.
Thomas Nuttall was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841.
This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns the events in British North America relating to what is the present day province of Quebec, Canada between the time of the Constitutional Act of 1791 and the Act of Union 1840.
John Neilson was a Scots-Quebecer editor of the newspaper La Gazette de Québec/The Quebec Gazette and a politician.
GeneralSir Roger Hale Sheaffe, 1st Baronet was a Loyalist General in the British Army during the War of 1812. He was created a Baronet in 1813 and afterwards served as Commander and acting Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. There is conflicting information to statements regarding his military accomplishments (1812) in the "Letters of Veritas" in and around page 50.
The 96th Regiment of Foot was a British Army regiment, raised in 1798. Under the Childers reforms it amalgamated with the 63rd Regiment of Foot to form the Manchester Regiment.
Denis-Benjamin Viger was a 19th-century politician, lawyer, businessman in Lower Canada. He was a leader in the Patriote movement.
Andrew Colvile was a Scottish businessman, notable as the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, a huge organisation set up for the North American fur trade but also instrumental in the early history of Canada. He was also chairman of the West India Docks.
The Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada was the elected part of the legislature for the province of Upper Canada, functioning as the lower house in the Parliament of Upper Canada. Its legislative power was subject to veto by the appointed Lieutenant Governor, Executive Council, and Legislative Council.
David McGregor Rogers was a farmer and Member of the 2nd Parliament of Upper Canada.
Francis Leigh Walsh was a political figure in Upper Canada.
Ward Chipman was a lawyer, judge and political figure in the pre-Confederation Province of New Brunswick, Canada.
Sir William MacBean George Colebrooke, was an English career soldier and colonial administrator who became lieutenant governor of New Brunswick in 1841.
Robert Wharton was the longest-serving mayor of Philadelphia.
Laban Wheaton was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
The Parliament of Upper Canada was the legislature for Upper Canada. It was created when the old Province of Quebec was split into Upper Canada and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791.
Mahlon Dickerson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the 7th Governor of New Jersey, United States Senator from New Jersey, the 10th United States Secretary of the Navy and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Sir Jeffry Wyatville was an English architect and garden designer. Born Jeffry Wyatt into an established dynasty of architects, in 1824 he was allowed by King George IV to change his surname to Wyatville. He is mainly remembered for making alterations and extensions to Chatsworth House and Windsor Castle.
The Parliament of Lower Canada was the legislature for Lower Canada. It was created when the old Province of Quebec was split into Lower Canada and Upper Canada in 1791.
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