The Home District Council was the municipal governing body for York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario) from 1792 to 1834. It was established by Lieutenant Governor of Ontario John Graves Simcoe.
The leader of the council was known as the Chairman of the General Quarter Session of Peace.
Read more about Home District Council: Home District Council Chairmen
Famous quotes containing the words home, district and/or council:
“Every other evening around six o’clock he left home and dying dawn saw him hustling home around the lake where the challenging sun flung a flaming sword from east to west across the trembling water.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.”
—Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)