In 1793, Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe ordered a military road built from Burlington Bay on Lake Ontario to the forks of the Thames River. This road would also be used for commercial transportation, and would be named for the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Henry Dundas. The Queen's Rangers constructed the road between 1794 and 1795. The eastern section of the road is called the Governor's Road after Simcoe; it stretches from Dundas at the westernmost end of Lake Ontario to Woodstock. At Woodstock, the name changes to the Dundas Road. The town of Dundas was named for the mills, the Dundas Mills, that were built near the Dundas Road, not for the road itself nor for Henry Dundas directly.