Playter's Bridge near York, ca. 1796
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Resource ID
10656
Access
Open
Credit Line
Archives of Ontario
Keywords
art
Program Category
Historical Plaques
Rights
Archives of Ontario
Caption
Playter's Bridge near York, ca. 1796
Description
Elizabeth Simcoe, a colonial diarist and artist, provided one of the first settler accounts of a bridge over the Don River. In 1796, she described Playter’s “picturesque” bridge in her diary as a fallen butternut tree with a pole handle. At the time, she was travelling with her husband, John Simcoe, the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada.