1793 - A military town

John Graves Simcoe chose the harbour for his military town and, as it becomes established, Indigenous peoples continue to frequent the area, travelling in birch canoes, harvesting wild rice, and trading fish at an early fish market. They camped along the peninsula (now the Toronto Islands) and gathered along riverbanks and the many tributaries that fed Lake Ontario, including quite possibly Cathedral Creek, a small seasonal stream that ran through the block that would eventually become St. James Park.