Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe founded Toronto. He introduced trial by jury and civil government in Ontario, tried to outlaw slavery, and built up the province’s infrastructure along military lines. He also established armouries in towns and cities across Ontario, ensuring that Loyalists could drill and defend themselves for the day the Americans came.And they did. During the unprovoked American invasion of 1812, his colleague Major General Isaac Brock gave his life at Queenston Heights, dying on the battlefield close to Niagara, while leading the charge against Yankee invaders burning towns, villages, farms and livestock preaching “liberty” and “emancipation” that nobody had asked for. Just as in Mel Gibson’s The Patriot, British soldiers, Canadians, and Loyalists are depicted as villainous psychopaths rather than as people defending their homes, laws, and nation.