TORONTO , ONTARIO

...A BRIEF HISTORY :  A GARRISON WAS BUILT ON THIS LOCATION IN 1793 , BY LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE INCASE OF WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES...AS THE AREA STARTED TO POPULATE , IT WAS KNOW AS YORK AND BECAME THE CAPITAL OF UPPER CANADA , LATER NAMED TO TORONTO IN 1834...THE BATTLE OF YORK OCCURED HERE ON APRIL 27 , 1813...THE U.S ATTACKED THE AREA WITH OVER 2000 SOLDIERS VS THE 700 COMBINED FORCES OF BRITISH SOLDIERS , LOCAL MELITIA AND LOCAL NATIVES...DURING THE BATTLE THERE WERE ROUGHLY 300 SOLDIERS KILLED  FROM THE AMERICAN SIDE AND 150 FROM THE   BRITISH...AFTER THE AMERICANS TOOK CONTROL , THEY LOOTED AND BURNED MOST OF THE BUILDINGS ON SITE AND IN TOWN...IN THE FALL OF THAT YEAR AFTER THE U.S ABANDONED THE AREA , THE BRITISH RETURNED TO REBUILD THE FORTIFACATION THAT STANDS TODAY............... ....STORIES INCLUDE HEAVY DOORS BE SLAMMED SHUT INSIDE THE BUILDINGS , A FIGURE OF A WOMEN IN WHITE HAS ALSO BEEN SEEN IN THE OFFICER'S QUARTERS AND APPARITIONS OF SOLDIERS BEING SEEN AROUND VARIOUS PARTS OF THE FORT.....................

VIEW OF THE FORT CIRCA 1841   FROM ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO

...JUST NORTH OF THE FORT IS TORONTOS FIRST MILITARY CEMETERY...IT WAS ORIGINALLY SET UP IN 1794 TO BE A LOCAL CEMETERY , THEN LATER USED AFTER THE WAR..IT OPERTATED UNTIL 1863 WITH ROUGHLY 400 MEN , WOMEN AND CHILDREN BEING BURRIED THERE...ONE OF THE FIRST BURRIALS TO TAKE PLACE THERE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF GOVERNOR SIMCOE , KATHERINE , IN 1794...TODAY IT IS A PUBLIC PARK WITH A MONUMENT WITH ALL THE GRAVES STILL REMAINING UNDERNEATH.....................

MILITARY BURIAL GROUND 1885 - CANADIAN HISTORICAL       PICTURE COLLECTION

VICTORIA SQUARE - 1923 LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES             OF CANADA

...THESE PICTURES AND VIDEO WERE TAKEN ON AUGUST 4TH , 2007 AT THE FORT AND PARK...AN INTERESTING PLACE WITH ITS HISTORY...NOTHING UNUSUAL WAS SEEN IN ANY OF THE PHOTOS OR ON VIDEO...THE TEMP. WAS 31.3 DEGREES CELCIUS WITH A 20 Km/H WIND FROM THE NORTH-WEST..............

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