Fort
York is a historic site of military
fortifications and related buildings
on the west side of downtown Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. The fort was built
by the British Army and Canadian militia
troops in the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries, to defend
the settlement and the new capital
of the Upper Canada region from the
threat of a military attack, principally
from the newly independent United
States. In 1793, Lieutenant Governor
John Graves Simcoe authorized a garrison
on the present site of Fort York,
just west of the mouth of Garrison
Creek on the north eastern shore of
Lake Ontario. Simcoe recognized Toronto
was an ideal site for settlement and
defence because of its natural harbour
and relative distance from the United
States.
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