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1744 in Canada

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Events from the year 1744 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: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas Smith

Events

  • May 3 – News of the declaration of war by France on Great Britain arrives in New France, starting King George's War.
  • The Treaty of Lancaster between Great Britain and the Iroquois occurs.
  • Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles de Fleurimont succeeded Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye as the Commandant of the western French forts.

Births

  • May 22 - Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, naval officer, explorer, administrator (d.1794)
  • October 6 - James McGill, merchant, philanthropist (d.1813)
  • December 10 - William Berczy, painter, architect, author, and colonizer (d.1813)

Full date unknown

  • Elias Hardy, lawyer and office-holder (d.1798)

References

References

  1. Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. (30 December 2015). "George I".
  3. Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. (11 August 2019). "History of King George's War".
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