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
HMS Prince Regent (1814) However, no buyer's were found and the vessel sank in Deadman Bay in the mid-1830s. The wrecksite, along with those of "St Lawrence" and "Princess Charlotte" were designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2015. Notes Citations Bibliography HMS Prince Regent (1814) HMS "Prince Regent was a 56-gun British warship that served on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. "Prince Regent" was built at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Upper Canada and launched on 14 April 1814. Rated as a fourth-rate frigate, "Prince Regent" took part in the Raid on Fort Oswego in 1814. Following the