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CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



THE FIRST GAZETTEER OF UPPER CANADA. 



"WITH ANNOTATIONS, 



BY THE RET. HENRY SCADDINO, D.D. 



The full title of the work which it is proposed to reprint, with 

 annotations, is as follows : — " A short Topographical Description of 

 His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada, in North America, to 

 ■which is annexed a Provincial Gazetteer. London : Published by 

 W. Faden, Geographer to His Majesty, and to His Ptoyal Highness 

 the Prince of Wales, Charing Cross, 1799. Printed by W. Bulmer 

 and Co., Russell Court, Cleveland Row, St. James's." In the second 

 edition, published in 1813, "His Ptoyal Highness the Prince of Wales" 

 is altered to "His Royal Highness the Prince Regent," and the Printers 

 are Hamblin and Seyfang, Garlick Hill, Thames Street. In the 

 first edition the following " Advertisement" or Preface appears : — 

 " The accompanying Notes and Gazetteer were drawn up by David 

 William Smith, Esq., the very able Surveyor General of Upper 

 Canada, at the desire of Major-General Simcoe, on the plan of those 

 of the late Capt. Kutchins for the River Ohio and the Countries 

 adjacent. London, October 1st, 1799." The David William Smith 

 here named was born in 1764. He was the son of Lieut. -Col. Smith, 

 of the Fifth Regiment of Foot, formerly of Salisbury, who died Com- 

 mandant at Fort Niagara in 1795. At an early age he was appointed 

 an Ensign in his father's regiment, in which he subsequently obtained 

 the rank of Captain. Afterwards he was called to the bar in Upper 

 Canada, with precedence as Deputy Judge Advocate. Besides being 

 Surveyor General, he was also one of the Trustees for the Six 

 Nations, and of the Executive Council of the Committee for admin- 

 istering the Government in the Governor's absence ; a member of' 

 the first three Upper Canadian Parliaments, and Speaker of the 

 House of Assembly in two of them. On his return to England in 



