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The Great Sail succeeded his father, Keenes. At a ceremony at Fort Canis took up two-year-old Francis by the firing of the cannon. Instead, Simcoe travelling from York north Point but was told he was dangerously to his sorrow that both Canis and they succumbed to infections acquired from Europeans. Simcoe headman’s honour. Today it is usually called Thorah Island.
The number of Native People name is exceedingly small. The at Oak-Land (now De Grassi) Point at the fort by Mrs. Simcoe in January are held at Ontario Archives and having a connection to early Fort York who are known by Great Sail, a Mississauga headman who lived with his family on the west side of Cook Bay, Lake Simcoe, was sketched 1794. This portrait was engraved later and prints of it Toronto Public Library. also called Great Sail but better known as Canis or York on 24 August 1793 when Toronto was renamed York, Simcoe in his arms, thinking the boy might be frightened Francis was delighted by it. A month later Lt.-Gov. to Matchedash Bay wanted to visit Canis at Oak-Land ill. Returning there two weeks later Simcoe learned his eldest son had died some days before. Almost certainly named Canise Island in Lake Simcoe near Beaverton in the
This caption is based on extensive research by Conrad E. Heidenreich since the 1890s. Copies of his notes are found in the Resource Centre whose family has owned much of De Grassi Point at Fort York.
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