City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . In the correspondence ofGovernor Simcoe, and in the state papers ofthe period, there are frequent i-eferences tohis plan for establishing the capital of UpperCanada at this jioint, which he proposed tocall Georgiana, in honor of the reigning mon-arch. He went to England, however, on leaveof absence in 1796, and never returned. The fanciful title is derived from the large num-ber of shade trees. There is ground for this,but in reality London was first called theForest City because it was surveyed anddesigned for a city
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . In the correspondence ofGovernor Simcoe, and in the state papers ofthe period, there are frequent i-eferences tohis plan for establishing the capital of UpperCanada at this jioint, which he proposed tocall Georgiana, in honor of the reigning mon-arch. He went to England, however, on leaveof absence in 1796, and never returned. The fanciful title is derived from the large num-ber of shade trees. There is ground for this,but in reality London was first called theForest City because it was surveyed anddesigned for a city before a tree of the pri-meval forest had been levelled. From 1745till July, 1792, when Governor Simcoe form-ally changed the name by proclamation, theThames had been known to the French as LaTranche—a shce or cut. Previous to 1745 ithad been called La Tranchee—a has it that the stream was knownto the Indians as the Askunessippi, or theAntlered River. Rev. Dr. Webster hadvisited the plot of what is now London,when the spot was a forest. Sixty years. THE LATE COLONEL TALBOT. COLONEL TALBOTS RESIDENCE AND CHURCH AT TYRCONNEL. capital had in the meantime been transferredto Little York (Toronto). On the 21st of May, 1803, the Governorserstwhile secretary. Colonel Talbot, choppeddown the first tree in the Talbot settlement,in what was then known as the London Dis-trict. The courts for the district were heldfirst at Turkey Point till the court house wasdestroyed by fire in 1815, when it was re-erected at Vittoria. Here again the courthouse was burned, and in 1826 it was orderedby the Legislature that the courts should infuture be held within some part of thereservation heretofore made for the site ofa town, near the forks of the River Thames,in the townships of London and Westminster,in the county of Middlesex. Here, then, wehave the genesis of London. To-day we callit the Forest City, and many beheve the afterwards, in 1870, he ^vrote this descriptionof it as it
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