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‘Toronto’s First Post Office’ opens in 1834 after city incorporated
People celebrate the incorporation of Toronto, formerly the settlement of ‘Muddy York,’ on March 6, 1834, in a 1909 lithograph by Frederic Waistell Jopling.
James Scott Howard became York’s fourth postmaster in 1828, about a decade after arriving in the bustling capital of Upper Canada from Fredericton, N.B. Six years after Howard came to the helm of York’s postal service – a role that also pegged him, albeit unofficially, as Upper Canada’s deputy postmaster general – the capital incorporated as... Continue reading →