sentences:  The team assigned to Canada originally planned to build their observatory on Saint Helen's Island off Montreal, but the local rocks proved to have a high magnetic influence, and the decision was made to move to Toronto instead.The team arrived in 1839, and set up camp at Fort York in a disused barracks while construction started on new buildings.The observatory was given of land to the west of King's College; the Ontario Legislature now occupies the area on which the college was located.