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Simcoe is an unincorporated community and former town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada near Lake Erie.It is the county seat and largest community of Norfolk County. [1] Simcoe is at the junction of Highway 3, at Highway 24, due south of Brantford, and accessible to Hamilton by nearby Highway 6.
(Simcoe South) June 22, 1900 55 John William Bell Conservative Ontario : July 5, 1901 63 Nathaniel Clarke Wallace Conservative Ontario : October 8, 1901 57 Richard Reid Dobell Liberal Quebec (Quebec West) January 11, 1902 65 Head injury following a fall from a horse [68] Edward Henry Horsey Liberal Ontario
Killed by 24-year-old Ernest Flook while trying to arrest him at his home for stealing multiple items from a store near Bredenbury. Flook then took Cst. Flook then took Cst. Gleadow's police car and fled, later being cornered by an RCMP posse near Langenburg where he used Gleadow's revolver to kill himself [ 38 ]
In 1858, Dr William H. Oliver, who had written for and edited a number of periodicals in the early 1800s, established a weekly newspaper called The Erie News in Simcoe. [1] After publishing for three years, the newspaper was sold to William Buckingham in 1861, who renamed it The Norfolk Reformer. Buckingham edited the paper for 18 months under ...
Osler was a close personal friend of Canadian railway magnate Hugh Ryan and served as one of his pallbearers —alongside Ontario politician, William Harty; Conservative Senator, James Mason; Ontario Banker, W.S. Lee; and Canadian businessman Eugene O'Keefe —at his funeral held in St Michael's Cathedral Basilica in 1899. [7] [8]
James Karl Bartleman OC OOnt (24 December 1939 – 14 August 2023) was a Canadian diplomat and author who served as the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 2002 to 2007.
Murray Douglas Morton QC (1916–2001) was a Canadian soldier, lawyer, politician, and judge. He was best known as an elected trustee of the Toronto Board of Education, as federal Member of Parliament for Toronto's Davenport riding, and as a judge in Ontario's Provincial Court (Family Division).
Chris Bourke Doty (September 8, 1966 – February 2, 2006) was a Canadian journalist, historian, award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and playwright, noted for his many contributions to the cultural life of his hometown of London, Ontario.