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Francis Bond Head

Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet KCH PC (1 January 1793 – 20 July 1875) was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837.

The Right Honourable
Sir Francis Bond Head
Bt KCH

William IV
Victoria

Sir John Colborne

Sir George Arthur

1 January 1793
Higham, Kent

20 July 1875(1875-07-20) (aged 82)
Croydon, Surrey, England

Julia Valenza Somerville

Commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers

Bond Head, an northwest of Toronto in the town of Bradford West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County[5]

unincorporated area

Bond Head, a on Lake Ontario in the municipality of Clarington, Regional Municipality of Durham, to the east of Toronto,[6] which gives its name to the adjacent settlement of Bond Head, and a local park west of the cape and east of the Port of Newcastle harbour.[7]

cape

Three streets in the town of named Francis, Bond, and Head. (Only Bond and Head remain.)

Oakville, Ontario

Two streets in the city of , Ontario named 'Bond' and 'Head'. Though both streets are short, they intersect.

St. Catharines

The community of , on the Trent River, was named after Head after he crossed the river there while travelling.

Frankford

Several places in Ontario are named for Sir Francis Bond Head:

Life of Bruce (London, 1830), a biography of Scottish traveler

James Bruce

Bruce, James, (1830), an abridged version of the 1790 work, edited by F. Bond Head.

Travels

Head, Francis Bond. (1826). . Murray (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00161-8)

Rough Notes Taken during some Rapid Journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes

(1834), travel in Germany

"Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, by an Old Man"

Head, Francis Bond. (1846). . London: John Murray.

The Emigrant

Head, Francis B[ond]. (1852). A Fortnight in Ireland.

The Defenceless State of Great Burray, 1869.

Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Francis Bond Head

Works by or about Francis Bond Head

Life of Bruce, the African Traveller

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Francis Bond Head