Magistrates in Early Upper Canada
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · 19:00 · Nelles Manor Museum, 126 Main St West, Grimsby, Ontario, L3M 1R8, Canada · Grimsby ·
From the time John Graves Simcoe became the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, laws and law enforcement was a priority. The province was established with a constitution that imported several bodies of law from Great Britain as well as the practice of employing magistrates to administer them in their local districts. So far as is known, none of these individuals were actually lawyers, nor did the criteria for selecting them actually require them to be so. In addition to administering the