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1745 in Canada

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Events from the year 1745 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: Richard Edwards

Events

16 June 1745 - After a six-week siege, the French fort of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island falls to the British colonial forces from New England organized by Governor William Shirley. This intensifies hostilities in what is known as King George's War, an extension of the European War of the Austrian Succession. The English go on to make new conquests from the French in the West Indies.

Births

Samuel Hearne, explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist (died 1792)

References

Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
(30 December 2015). "George I".

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