This map shows the boundaries of the Toronto Purchase, an area transferred to Crown ownership by a treaty negotiated between the British and the resident Indians in 1787.
Such treaties established British title ( documents signed in a foreign language by people that never learned to write or speak that language seems to me deceiving) to lands needed for the resettlement of Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution.
The trail marked is the "Toronto Portage" (‘Carrying Place’ -N.) which connected Lake Ontario to the Holland River and Lake Simcoe; the route had long been used by Indians and fur traders.
The area labelled "Toronto" marks the site of the French trading fort abandoned 30 years earlier. The ruins, today near the bandshell in the CNE grounds, have recently been excavated.”meaning destroyed
The signature that took the land from indians.
Such treaties established British title ( documents signed in a foreign language by people that never learned to write or speak that language seems to me deceiving) to lands needed for the resettlement of Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution.
The trail marked is the "Toronto Portage" (‘Carrying Place’ -N.) which connected Lake Ontario to the Holland River and Lake Simcoe; the route had long been used by Indians and fur traders.
The area labelled "Toronto" marks the site of the French trading fort abandoned 30 years earlier. The ruins, today near the bandshell in the CNE grounds, have recently been excavated.”meaning destroyed
- Isobel Ganton & Joan Winearls, MAPPING TORONTO'S FIRST CENTURY 1787-1884
Here is a later map that shows the image of a star fort already destroyed. This is a proof that an ancient civilization lived on this land that built star forts.
Toronto Island was not an Island in 1788 one year after deceiving transfer.
