History of cities in Canada located. The British purchased of land from the native peoples in 1787 and Governor John Graves Simcoe chose the site for the capital (which he named York) of the newly created Upper Canada. Concerned with military transportation to protect the new colony from US attack, he built roads west to what is now Windsor, east towards Montreal, and north, the present day Yonge Street. York was attacked and burned to the ground by the American Army in 1813 and the Canadians, in retaliation, attacked and burned the White House in Washington to the ground in 1814. Another US attack that
Orient (1814 ship) Orient (1814 ship) Orient was launched in 1814 at Calcutta. She sailed to England and from then on was based there. She traded with India into the 1830s. She participated in a naval punitive expedition in 1819, and performed four voyages for the British East India Company. From the 1840s she cntinued to sail widely until she was condemned in 1865 and sold for breaking up. Shortly after her launch "Orient" sailed to England. She first appeared in "Lloyd's Register" in 1815 with W. Rutter, master, Js. Murry, owner, and trade London–Bengal. From 1814 the EIC lost its monopoly on