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1748 in Canada

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Events from the year 1748 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

Governors

Governor General of New France: Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière
Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Charles Watson

Events

Louisbourg is returned to France by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island) and Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) to French.
Treaty of Logstown (English with Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot). English later base their claim to the whole Great Lakes and midwest (or Old Northwest as it was later called) on these two treaties.

Births

June 14: Henry Allen, evangelist, hymnist, theologian (d.1784)

Full date unknown

James Henry Craig, officer, colonial administrator (d.1812)

Deaths

August 12: Jean Jeantot, Canadian Catholic brother and schoolmaster (born c. 1666)

References

Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
(30 December 2015). "George I".
Grimard, Jacques. "Jeantot, Jean".

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