CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



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Street, and down the waters of Lake Simcoe into Lake Huron, in 

 preference to sending it by Lake Erie. [This street was named from 

 Sir CTeorge Yonge, a member of the Imperial Government, temp. 

 Geo. III. He was of a distinguished Devonshire family.] 



Yonge Township, in the County of Leeds, is the tenth township in 

 ascending the River St. Lawrence. 



York County, consists of two ridings, the east and west. The east 

 riding is bounded on the east by the westernmost line of the County 

 of Durham ; on the south by Lake Ontario, until it meets the eastern 

 boundary of a tract of land belonging to the Mississaga Indians ; on 

 the west by the easternmost boundary line of the said tract, running 

 north 16 deg. west, the distance of 28 miles, thence north 74 deg. 

 east, 14 miles, thence south 16 deg. east, 16 miles to the southern 

 boundary of the lands belonging to the Indians, and thence along the 

 said tract parallel to Lake Ontario, until it meets the north-western- 

 most boundary of the County of Durham. The west riding of the 

 County of York is bounded on the east by the westernmost line of a 

 tract of land belonging to the Mississaga Indians, running north 45 

 deg. v^^est, to the Eiver La Tranche (to be called the Thames) ; on the 

 south by Burlington Bay and the carrying-place leading through the 

 Mohawk village, to where it intersects the Biver La Tranche, or 

 Thames; and theuce up that river to the north- westernmost boun- 

 dary of a tract of land belonging to the Mississaga Indians. The 

 boundaries of this county were established by proclamation the l6th 

 July, 1792. It sends, in conjunction with the County of Durham 

 and the first riding of the County of Lincoln, one representative to 

 the Provincial Parliament. [In the Second Edition, instead of "the 

 eastern boundary of a tract of land, &c.," the description reads thus, 

 "the eastern boundary of Toronto township, which, with the Missis- 

 saga tract,* gives its western limits; and on the north by Holland's 



»Tlie following is the text of the Instrument finally surrendering the Mississaga tract. (It 

 used to be said that the whole tract was obtained by the Crown for the sum of ten shillings. 

 •It will be seen that this was a consideration named simply pro formd. The object of the docu- 

 ment was to quiet the title of the Crown, the original deed having been imperfectly filled up. 

 The paper asserts, it will be observed, that "divers good and valuable considerations" had been 

 received: it is not specified, however, what these were, the original document here showing a 

 blank) -—This Indenture made at the River Credit, on Lake Ontario, on the first day of Au- 

 gust, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Five, between WiUiam Claus, 

 Esquire, Deputy Superintendent^General and Deputy Inspector-General of Indians and of 

 ■their affairs, for and in behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King, of the one part, and the Prin- 

 cipal Chiefs, Warriors and People of the Mississaga Nation of Indians, for and in the name of 

 jthe said lifation of the other part. Wheeeas on the twenty-third day of September, in the year 



