Английская Википедия:1752 in Canada
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Events from the year 1752 in Canada.
Incumbents
Governors
- Governor General of New France: Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière then Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville
- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
- Governor of Nova Scotia: Edward Cornwallis
- Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Francis William Drake
Events
- 23 March – Canada's first newspaper, the weekly Halifax Gazette, is published[3]
- French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts from Lake Erie to the forks of the Ohio RiverШаблон:Fact
- La Corne began a three-year appointment as the western commander of the poste de l'OuestШаблон:Fact
- The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar.
Births
- 25 February – John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d.1806)
Deaths
- Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, governor general of New France, on 17 March (born 1685)
Historical documents
British law mandates switch from Julian to Gregorian calendar, so that 2 September 1752 is followed next day by 14 September[4]
French fort at Crown Point, being "very obnoxious to His Majesty's plantations," must be demolished for security of British colonies[5]
British ambassador insists French government demolish Niagara River fort and that Governor General De la Jonquière be ordered to desist[6]
Agent of Massachusetts government learns in Montreal that its western trade involves hundreds of canoes and more than 1,000 men[7] Шаблон:Check quotation Survey of coast near Louisbourg shows where British forces might land and take unprotected road to fortress (Note: "savages" use)[8]
Earlier peace treaty renewed with Miꞌkmaq at Halifax, with hunting and fishing rights, semi-annual food provision and annual presents[9]
Essay on regaining loyalty of Six Nations includes suggestion that superintendent oversee both relations and currently exploitative trade[10]
New Nova Scotia governor echoes Cornwallis opinion that Chignecto Acadians are useful, necessary and impossible to replace[11]
Advertisement for sale of six enslaved people (four teens and two adults) in Halifax[12]
Appointed Halifax fire wardens to direct fire suppression, and anyone robbing houses in or near fire to be punished with death[13]
Estates of Nova Scotia debtors in jail who are "wholly depending upon the Charity of Compassionate Persons" may be tapped for creditors and jailer[14]
Map: Fictitious Northwest Passage that mapmaker Joseph-Nicolas Delisle based on fictitious 1640 voyage of Spanish admiral[15]
References
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- ↑ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ William Douglass, "In the sessions 1751" A Summary, Historical and Political,[...]of the British Settlements in North-America; Vol. II (1755), pgs. 340-2. Accessed 17 December 2021
- ↑ Note to Earl of Albemarle, British ambassador to France (excerpt; 4 June 1752), British Diplomatic Instructions; 1689-1789; Volume VII, France, Part IV, 1745-1789, pg. 28. Accessed 17 December 2021
- ↑ "Translation of part of the memorial" (English and French texts; 7 March 1752), The Conduct of the Ministry Impartially Examined (1756), pgs. 17-18. Accessed 17 December 2021
- ↑ "June 16th "Journal of Captain Phineas Stevens' Journey[...]to Canada, 1752," Travels in the American Colonies (1916), pgs. 309-10. (See also "A Short Description of the City of Montreal in Canada") Accessed 19 December 2021
- ↑ "Port Toulouse" "Letter II," Genuine Letters and Memoirs, Relating to the Natural, Civil, and Commercial History of Cape Breton, and Saint John (translation; 1760), pgs. 18-19, 22-3, 26. Accessed 17 December 2021
- ↑ "I. It is agreed" (22 November 1752), French Policy Defeated (1755), pgs. 43-5. (Another copy of this treaty is here, and treaty proclamation is here) Accessed 17 December 2021
- ↑ (Archibald Kennedy), "The principles to be laid down in the management of our Indians" The Importance of Gaining and Preserving the Friendship of the Indians to the British Interest Considered (1752), pgs. 14-20. (See also suggestions for fortifying and settling New York frontier) Accessed 20 December 2021
- ↑ "Extract from a letter of Governor Hopson to Lords of Trade" (10 December 1752), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pg. 197. Accessed 19 December 2021
- ↑ "Advertisements" Halifax Gazette (30 May 1752), pg. 2, Nova Scotia Archives. Accessed 21 December 2021
- ↑ "4. In Council the Twenty ninth of September, 1752" An Act for the confirming the Proceedings on the several Resolutions of the Governors and Council of this Province[....] (1758), pgs. 20-1. Accessed 17 December 2021
- ↑ Nova Scotia Council, "An Act for the Relief of Debtors(....)" (6 December 1752), pgs. 1 and 3. Accessed 17 December 2021
- ↑ Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, "Carte generale des découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte et autres navigateurs Espagnols, Anglois et Russes pour la recherhe du passage a la mer du sud" (1752), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 19 December 2021
