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Simcoeentered politics as member of Parliament for St. Mawes,Cornwall, in 1790. After passage of theConstitutional Actof 1791, which gave representative government to Canada, he was appointed the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. As lieutenant governor, he encouraged immigration and agricultur...