Bridges of Paris
On April 5, 1793, Augustus Jones, the deputy surveyor of Upper Canada, was in the process of surveying what was to become known as Governor’s Road. The work had been commissioned by John Graves Simcoe, the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, as part of his plan to build a military road connecting Dundas with London. On […]
Why Main Street isn’t the main street?
In 1830, when the founder of Paris, Hiram Capron, hired Lewis Burwell to survey what was to become the town of Paris, Capron envisioned a “lower town” and an “upper town”. In the lower town, Broadway was to be the main business thoroughfare flanked by West River Street and East River Street. East River Street […]