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• Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe 1766-1850
  The wife of John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim was born at Whitchurch, Herefordshire. Her diaries and sketches, compiled 1791-96 while in Canada, provide a valuable record of pioneer life in that colony. Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe, who claimed direct descendence from Lord William de Brewer, the founder, in the twelfth century, of the Abbey of St. Mary, Dunkswell, died in 1806, and thereafter Mrs. Simcoe devoted herself to charitable work. She...

• Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806
  Born in Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, Simcoe entered the army in 1770, and during the American Revolution commanded the 1st American Regiment (Queen's Rangers). In 1791 he was appointed the first Lieutenant-Governor of the newly formed Province of Upper Canada. During his energetic administration, he improved communications, encouraged immigration and founded York (Toronto). In 1796 he returned to Wolford, his estate in Devonshire, England, but during 1797 served as Governor and military commander in British-occupied St. Domingo...

• Wolford Chapel
  This family chapel on the former estate of Upper Canada's first Lieutenant-Governor, John Graves Simcoe, was given to the people of Ontario by Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth. At a ceremony held on September 27, 1966, the Honourable John P. Robarts, Prime Minister of Ontario, accepted the deed to the chapel and grounds from Sir Geoffrey and title to an essential right-of-way from Mr. A.G. LeMarchant.