Friday, August 24, 2012

This Weekend: Lt. Gov. Simcoe and Toronto Carrying Place Re-enactment & Parade

To mark the two hundred and nineteenth anniversary of the expedition.*


LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR  JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE AND THE HUMBER HERITAGE COMMITTEE

INVITE YOU TO JOIN THEM IN REENACTING THE FIRST DAY OF THE GOV´S 1793 JOURNEY  UP THE TORONTO CARRYING PLACE 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd 2012


ASSEMBLING AT THE QUEEN STREET RIGHT OF WAY AND THE SOUTH KINGSWAY TO
DEPART NORTHWARDS FROM THE ROUSSEAUX SITE AT 9:30 A.M.

THE EXPEDITION WILL TAKE THE FORM OF A PARADE, PERMITTING PEOPLE TO JOIN
AND LEAVE ALONG THE ROUTE AND WILL END BEFORE 2.00 P.M. AT THE 1793
CAMPSITE AT EGLINTON AND THE HUMBER RIVER*

Early drop off at Etienne Brule Park

THERE WILL BE AN HISTORICAL COMMENTARY BY GUIDE MADELEINE McDOWELL

Info: 416-767-7633

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