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Fort York was built at the mouth of Toronto Bay, at the direction of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, after he chose to locate the Provincial Capital, York on the shore of the Bay, in 1793.

Did you know ...

... that Craven Arms is a town in Shropshire, England, near the border with Wales?
... that a ridge of rock crosses the Ohio River, at Louisville, Kentucky, known as the Falls of the Ohio?
... that G-Shock is a line of watches?

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