Editing Elizabeth Simcoe (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Portion of Elizabeth Simcoe's Diary, pages 6-7 (I0032531).jpg|alt=Pages 6 and 7 of Elizabeth Simcoe's diary. Page 6 is a textual entry into her diary and page 7 a drawing of trees and two small buildings.|thumb|262x262px|Pages 6-7 of Elizabeth Simcoe's diary created between 1795 and 1796 from the Simcoe Family [[Fonds]] at the [[Archives of Ontario]] ]]
[[File:Cascade in Wolfe's Cove (I0006888).tif|alt=A cascade surrounded by trees.|left|thumb|A watercolour painting by Elizabeth Simcoe created in [April 1792?] depicting a cascade in Wolfe’s Cove from the Simcoe Family Fonds]]
Elizabeth Simcoe's diary provides a valuable impression of life in colonial Ontario. First published in 1911, there was a subsequent transcription published in 1965 and a paperback version at the turn of the 21st century, over 200 years after she wrote it. She also left a series of 595 [[Watercolor painting|watercolours]] that depict the town of [[York, Upper Canada]]. She proposed the naming of [[Scarborough, Toronto|Scarborough Township]], an eastern Toronto district, after [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire]]. The townships of [[Georgina, Ontario|North]], [[East Gwillimbury|East]] and [[Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario|West Gwillimbury]], just south of [[Lake Simcoe]], Ontario, are also named after her family. The Township of Whitchurch, today the town of [[Whitchurch–Stouffville]], [[Ontario]], honours her ancestral home, [[Whitchurch, Herefordshire]].<ref>Jean Barkey, et al., [http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=2871735&amp;qryID=0eb09b9a-c844-41ad-8105-9f81bdb11bd3 Whitchurch Township]{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Toronto: Stoddart, 1993), p. 14.</ref>

In December 2007, a statue of Elizabeth Gwillim Simcoe was raised in the town of [[Bradford West Gwillimbury]], when it commemorated the 150th anniversary of its incorporation. The statue stands in a small park in front of the Bradford post office, at the corner of John Street West and Barrie Street.
[[File:Barracks at Queenston (I0006924).tif|alt=A watercolour painting that includes a body of water with a boat on it, barracks, and trees.|thumb|264x264px|[Ca. 1792] watercolour painting by Elizabeth Simcoe depicting the barracks at [[Queenston]] from the Simcoe Family Fonds]]

In 2015, her work was included in ''The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Artists'', an exhibition co-curated by [[Alicia Boutilier]] and [[Tobi Bruce]] who also co-edited the book/catalogue.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wall |first1=Erin|title="Elizabeth Simcoe". The Artist Herself |date=2015 |publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre/ Art Gallery of Hamilton |location=Kingston and Hamilton|p=38-39 |isbn=978-1-55339-407-5|url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/abruce%2C+tobi/abruce+tobi/1%2C1%2C16%2CB/frameset&FF=abruce+tobi+++++1965&1%2C%2C16 |access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref>