[Sketch map of Upper Canada showing the routes Lt. Gov. Simcoe took on journeys between March 1793 and September 1795], [1795]

This map documents the journeys around Upper Canada carried out by Lieutenant Governor Simcoe between 1793 and 1795. Nearly 20 years later during the War of 1812, the use of internal water routes like the Thames River to Detroit, Georgian Bay from York via Lake Simcoe and the fur traders route along the Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing and on to the Upper Lakes, continued to be vitally important to to the life of Upper Canada. The roads surveyed during these trips remained incomplete when war came leaving the water routes the only sure means of transportation for heavy goods and large numbers of men.

At the time this map was drawn Fort Detroit, Niagara and Michilimackinac remained under British control. Many of the forts that played a role in the war on the Canadian side of the Border like Fort George and Fort Malden were built a few years later when control of the posts on the American side of the border were turned over to the United States in 1796.

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