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1739 in Canada

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Events from the year 1739 in Canada.

Incumbents

French Monarch: Louis XV
British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors

Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley

Events

Joseph La France begins to explore between Lake Superior and Hudson Bay.
Census of New France counts 42,801 inhabitants.

Births

February 23: Jean-François Hubert, bishop of Quebec (d. 1797)
August: Alexander Henry the elder, fur trader, merchant, militia officer, jp, and author (d. 1824)

Deaths

May 19: Marie Barbier de l'Assomption, sister of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame (born 1663)

Full date unknown

Thomas Bird, Hudson's Bay Company chief at Albany Fort

References

Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
(30 December 2015). "George I".
"1739 - Census of New France". Statistics Canada.

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