happened here, at one of the most prestigious churches in London. Twenty years later, Teddy Roosevelt would also tie the knot at St. George’s. And the church even pops up in My Fair Lady.

08: THE DUKE OF YORK COLUMN

In the aerial photograph above, it looks like nothing more than a thin brown line, just to the right of the number 08. But from the ground, it’s massive. The column soars 12 storeys into the air. The statue on top weighs more than 16,000 pounds. It was built in the early 1800s to honour a prince born just down the street at St. James’ Palace — the son of “Mad” King George III. In the days of the wars against Napoleon, the prince was in charge of the entireBritish military. Mostly, he’s remembered for being inept and for the time he got mixed up in one of the most notorious sex scandals in British history. But in the end, his name was cleared and every single soldier in the British army gave up one day’s pay to build him this column right in the middle of London.

His name was Prince Frederick. But he was better-known as the Duke of York. And when he won a big victory against the French in the late 1700s, the news spread all the way across the ocean and up the St. Lawrence to the brand new province of Upper Canada. Eventually, it reached the northern shore of Lake Ontario, where the Lieutenant Governor, John Graves Simcoe, had just founded a