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1749 in Canada

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Events from the year 1749 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 then Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière
Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
Governor of Nova Scotia: Edward Cornwallis
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: George Brydges Rodney

Events

Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia, is founded by British General Edward Cornwallis to counter French presence at Louisbourg.
La Vérendrye was awarded the cross of Saint Louis, in honour of his career.
French agricultural settlement established in what would become Windsor, Ontario.

Births

Full date unknown

Joel Stone, founder of Gananoque, Ontario (died 1833)

Deaths

December 5 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer (born 1685).

References

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

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