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Earlier, someone said that he became important in Canadian history after the war.
John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806) was a British army general and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796, in modern-day southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and the abolition of slavery.
The show started out with a lot of promise, but then it got sillier and more commercialized. I stuck with it because it's rare to see anything like this on American TV, but I wasn't fond of a lot it, including unnecessary anachronistic language (last episode Benedict Arnold says "Good luck with that."). The setting's topography never ever resembled Long Island, NY, but that's o.k. It took a lot of liberties with the facts, but that's ok too because this was meant to entertain. Just had issues with the scripts and the directing on the entertainment level. I did enjoy the last episode tying it all together and giving the audience closure. If this gets people to discuss/read about American history, then it's a positive.
Very well done. A fine ending to a fine TV show that most everyone did not watch, but us few. 4 seasons, 40 shows. You will not see a better product than this concerning that time period IMO.
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I have the book, but I was waiting for the show to end before I read it.
No need really. The TV show, as much as I enjoyed it, was not all faithful to the actual history. What really happened is very different than what is on the TV show.
Simcoe, as others have pointed out, is probably the best example. On the TV show, he was a real monster. In real life? Not so much.
No need really. The TV show, as much as I enjoyed it, was not all faithful to the actual history. What really happened is very different than what is on the TV show.
Simcoe, as others have pointed out, is probably the best example. On the TV show, he was a real monster. In real life? Not so much.
So in the book Simcoe was described as being a more normal human and did not murder?
That is interesting. Thanks
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