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A SHORT TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF HIS ~L\.JESTY'S PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA, IN NORTH AMERICA. TO WHICH U A:oINEXED, A. PROVI.VCIAL GAZETTEER. 1-. ~et"onn <lEDition . - LONDON: PUBLISHED BY W. FADEN, GEOGRAPHEn TO HIS MAJESTY, AND TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT, CHARING CItOss. ~ 1813. ,'! pan~T'ED BY HAMBLIN AND SEYFANG, GARLICK-BILL, THAlIIES-STRJ;f.T. ADVERTISEiJIENT. THE following> Notes and Gazetteer were drawn up by David William Smyth, Esq. late' S1.u>veyo'r-General cif the Pro vince cif Upper Canada, to illustrate the Map 0/ that Colony, hy the desire l!f Major-General Simcoe. This Edition, THE SECOND, has heen revised and corrected to the present time, by Francis Gore, Esq. Lieutenant-Go vernor, ~c. ~c. to accompany the NEW MAP compiled in tI,e ,Sur'veyor-General's Of- ./ice, and recent~'lJ published 'Under his direction. London, 181 S. A 'l:opograpbica[ ~escription OF u P PER CAN ADA. • By an Act of the British Parliament, passed in the 31st year of His present Majesty, to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the 14th year of His Majesty's reign, entitled" An Act " for making more effectual Prov ision for the " Government of the Province of Quebec, in " North America, and to make further Provision " for the Government of the said Province;" the province of Quebec was divided into the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, which two provinces were separated, according to the following line of division, as set forth in His Majesty's Proclamation of the 18th day of No vember, 1791, A,LURED CLARKE, Esq. Lieutenant Governor, &c. &c. &c. viz.-" To commence at " a stone boundary on the north bank of the " lake St. Francis, at the cove west of Pointe au B " Bod~t, in the limit between the township of " Lancaster and the seigneury of New Lon ,e guell, running along the said limit in the " direction of north 34 degrees west, to the " westernmost angle of the said seigneury of " New Longuell; then along the north-western " boundary of the seigneury of Vaudrelul, run " ning north 25 degrees east, until it strikes the " Ottowas river; to ascend the said river into " the lake Tomiscanning; and from the head c, of the said lake, by a line drawn due north, " until it strikes the boundary line of Hudson's " Bay, including all the territory to the westward " and southward of the said line, to the utmost " extent of the country commonly called or " known by the name of Canada." The province of Upper Canada is bounded to the eastward by the United States of America; that is, by a line from the 45th degree of north latitude, along the midd Ie of the river Iroquois or Cataraqui, into lake Ontario; through the middle likewise, until it strikes the communi cation by water between that lake and lake Erie; thence aWl1g the middle of the communication into lake Erie; through the middle of that lake, until it arrives at the water communication be tween it and lake Huron; thence, through the middle of lake Huron, to the water communica tion between it and lake Superior; thence, through lake Superior northward, to the isles Royale and 3 Philipeaux, to the Long Lake, and the water com .. municatioll between itancl the Lake of theWoods; thence through that lake to the most north-wes tern point thereof; and from thence a due west line to the ri vel' Mississippi. To the westward, and to the nOI,thward, west of the i\Iississippi, its boundaries are indefinite; the northern limits of Louisiana not being well known. To the northward, it is bounded by Hudson's Bay, as settled by the treaty of Utrecht, in the 49th parallel of north latitude, extending due west, indefinitely. Soon after his Excellency John Graves Simcoe, Esq. the first Lieutenant Governor, had taken upon him the administration of the government of the province, he divided it by proclamation into districts, counties, and townships, which have been new modelled, and several others added by His Excellency Francis Gore, Esq. the present Lieutenant Governor; the whole being now constituted agreeable to the following' tableo DIVISION OF THE PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA. District. County. 1 Township. Lancaster Charlottenburgh Glengary. K { enyon St. Regis Indians Cornwall Osnabruck Stormont. .. { Finch Roxburgh rWilliamsburgh Matilda Dundas. .. M . ountaln Eastern .. tWinchester HaWkSbury Caledonia Prescott . .. ILongueiul , Alfred LPlantagenet (Clarence , Cum berland 1Gloucester Russell .... 'losgoode Russell Cambridge 5 Districts. Counties. Townships. ( Edwardsburgh Augusta Wolford Oxford, on the Grenville. .•. Rideau Marlborough Montague Gower, N. and S. Elizabeth Town Yonge Lansdown Johnstown Leeds Leeds ..... Crosby, N. and S. Bastard Burgess Elmsley l Kitley Carleton. .. Ncpean ( Howe Island Pittsburgh W 01 fe Island Kingston Midland. .. Frontenac .. , Loughborough Portland Hinchinbroke lBedford 6 Districts. Counties. Township,. Ernest Town Adolphus Town Fredericksburgh Lenox, and r Richmond Addington ~ Camden, East IAmherst Island l Sheffield ( Sydney Midland .. Thurlow ( continued) IMohawks Hastings .... -<t Hungerford Huntingdon Rawdon Ameliasburgh Hallowell PrinceEdward Sophiasburgh Marysburgh r Murray Cramahe I-Ialdimand Northumber- J Hamilton land .... '. I Alnwick Percy Newcastle. lSeymour Hope Clarke Durham. { Darlington 7 District!. Counties. Town.hips. ( Whitby Pickering Scarborough I York & Peninsula II Etobicoke }\'1arkham East Riding of Vauo'han b the County -< IT' ~mg of York. 'VI·lltc h urc h Uxbridge Gwillimbury, East Ditto, West Ditto, North Home" " "1 LScott Toronto rTrafalgar Nelson IFlamborough, East Ditto, West WestRidingof Beverly the County of York Six Nation Lands, north if Dundas Street Resetved lands. Crown lands and Church lands. 8 District. Counties. Townships. Rainham Walpole rWoodhouse I Charlotteville Walsingham Houghton Norfolk .•. 1Middleton Windham Townsend Turkey Point and Promontory of l Long Point (Burford, and Gore I of Burford London .. I Norwich Oxford ... i Dereham Oxford, on Thames Blandford lBlenheim ( London,Westmins- ter, South wold, Dorchester, Yar Middlesex.. ~ mou th, Dun wich I Aldborough, De la ware,Malahide, t l and Bayham 9 Districts. Counties. TOWDships. r Barton Ancaster Glanford Saltfleet I Binbrook Grimsby Caistor Clinton Louth L·Inco 1n ..•. Grantham Niagara Stamford Thorold Pelham Gainsborough Wainfleet Niagara .• Crowland Willoughby Bertie Humberstone l Sir Nation's Land, Haldimand • . south of Dundas { Street. Dover Chatham Western •. ( Kent • e , • • • { Camden, West ~ Oxford c 10 Districts. Counties. Townsbip~. Howard Harwich K ent ....•.. Raleigh Romney I Tilbury, E. & ,V, l Shawanees Western ... ( continued) l\tIersea r Gosfield I Colchester I Malde~ Essex ..... '1 SandwIch & Towil Amherstburgh I (Garrison) I Maidstone LRochester The 'counties send twenty-five representatives to the provincial parliament, who, with a legis lative -council, are c3:11ed together once every year. The representatives are elected for four years, to serve·in .the,Assembly, unless the parliament be sooner dissolved by th~ p~rson admi9istering the government. ' Pointe au Bodet is situated nearly half way on the north side. of lake St. Francis, which is about 25 'miles }()ng, , and, narrower thro.ughout. The object.of d,iyidin,g t1re'province '6f Quebec: at a: stone boundary) iJl.lthe cove, west gf this point, 11 was apparently in order that the seignioral grants,. under French tenure, should be comprehended in the province of Lower Canada, and that the new seigniories or townships, which were laid out for the loyalists, should be within the province of Upper Canada; the said stone boundary being the limit between the uppermost French seigniory (~Ir. De Longue'il's) on the river 5t. Lawrence, and the lower new seigniory of Lancaster, sur "eyed for the disbanded troops and loyalists; his l\lajesty having in the year 1788, signified his in tention that they should be placed upon the same footing in all respects as the loyalists in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by having their lands granted to them in free anu common soccage. In passing from the Pointe au Bodet, westward, through lake St. Francis, and up the river St. Law rence, the route is generally made on the north shore. Lancaster is the first township fronting this lake; it extends nine miles, which is the or dinary size of all townships, and extending twelve miles back from the front. Lancaster is watered by three small rivers, one of which empties itself to the east, and allothcr to the west of Pointe l\Iouillee, which projects ill to the lake towards th~ centre of the township. The next township is Charlottenburg, well wa tered by the river aux Raisins, which, rising in the township of Osnabruck, runs through that and the town:ship of Cornwall, and discharges itself into lake St. Fra.ncis, at the south·east angle of Char... 12 lottenburg, eastward of Point Johnson. In front of this township are several small islands. Between Charlottenburg' and Cornwall is a small tract possessed by the Indians, who have a consi derable village on the south shore, called St. Re gis; and in this part of the river St. Lawrence lie several islands, one called Petite Isle St. Regis, immediately opposite their village; and another, Grande Isle St. Regis, a little higher up, opposite to the towp of Cornwall. In the rear of Charlottenburg is the township of Kenyon. The townsl1ip of Cornwall adjoins next; - in the front is the town, of a mile square, lying in a commodious bay of the river, and watered by a small rivulet which runs through the town. Two branches of the river aux Raisins pass through the lands of this township; and in the front thereof are the Isles aux mille Roches, et des Chenaux Ecartees; Grand Isle St. Regis lying in front of the town. In the rear of this towl1!:ihip is the township of Roxburgh. The township of OSllabruck lies above Corn wall; the river aux Raisins rises here in several branches; ithas two other streams which run into St.