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Show American Fleet Occupied Toronto for Eleven Days The history of Toronto dates from 1749 when Fort Roullle, com. monly known as Fort Toronto, was established as an - Indian trading post and stockade by order of King Louis XV of France. Following the victory of the British troops over the French at Quebec In 1759, as a result of which Canada was ceded to Britain, a fur-trading post was established in 17G0 on the site of Fort Rouille. Thirty-three years later General Simcoe, of the British Brit-ish forces in Canada, who established estab-lished the first parliament In upper Canada, at Niagara-on-the-Lake, landed at Toronto, christened the place York, and selected it as the location of the new capital of the Province of Upper Canada, now Ontario. On-tario. The War of 1812-14 prevented the desired progress being "made by the provincial capital. At one time an American fleet of ten armed vessels, carrying 50 guns, landed and occupied occu-pied York for 11 days. By 1815 the population of York was 2,500; In 1S34, when the name was changed to Toronto, the population was 630,000. |