Niagara

( Newark ). Settled by Loyalists about 1782. Selected by Simcoe ten years later as the capital of Upper Canada, and named by him Newark. The first Legislature of the province met there in 1792. The first public library in the province established in 1800. Index : Bk First seat of government of Upper Canada, 57. S First seat of government of Upper Canada, 50; Loyalists settled at, 58; social life at, 181. L Fort built at, 216. Bib. : Kirby, Annals of Niagara ; Reminiscences of Niagara (Niagara Hist. Soc., n.d.); Car no chan, Niagara Library, 1800 to 1820 .