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Excerpt from Eighteenth Report of the Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario, 1929
Following last year's Report in due sequence, this volume, the eighteenth in the series, contains, in the main, original documents concerning the peopling of the Province of Upper Canada in the epochal years from 1792 to 1796, covering the entire Administration of John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of the Province.
In 1791 the Province of Quebec was divided into Upper and Lower Canada, each Province having its own legislature and separate government.
Colonel Simcoe was detained at Quebec on account of the non-arrival of the appointed members of the Executive Council, without a quorum of which he could not be sworn in nor enter upon his official duties. It is a curious co incidence that on his departure from Canada in 1796 he was again delayed at Quebec for a considerable time owing to an unexpected interruption of his sailing arrangements.
In this enforced interval, Simcoe was engaged in planning the structure of government for the Province-the social and institutional life of which he was the inspirer and real founder; so that on his arrival at Kingston early in the month of July, 1792, he was ready, without delay, to take up the work of his office. The Executive Council was at once organized. The first members to be sworn in were William Osgoode and Peter Russell. The Council thus constituted tendered the oaths to His Excellency. The oaths administered at that time may be referred to in Appendix II.
Then began the daily meetings, the record of which bears testimony to the unceasing activity and to the thoroughness with which, to the minutest detail, the arduous duties of the Lieutenant Governor were discharged.
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