1720 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1720 in Canada.

Incumbents

Louis XV^[1]

1720-60 - The Chickasaw fight the French and the Choctaw in the Southeast.
c. 1720: French forts along the Mississippi River spread northward from New Orleans.
To compensate for their loss, the French build a fortress at Louisbourg on the southeast tip of Cape Breton Island.

"A Hundred Pieces of Cannon fired together" - Ship crossing Grand Banks draws St. Elmo's Fire before fierce lightning storm^[3]

St. John's merchants include "litle pedlers" who reduce indebted planters "to a servant, and soon after to slavery for life"^[4]

Extensive piracy is committed in Newfoundland's Trepassey and St. Mary's harbours because road for sending help still not built^[5]

Newfoundlander William Keen requests full judicial authority to address "evills and outrages dayly committed in this place"^[6]

Nova Scotia governor urges Acadians to take oath of allegiance to King, who has preserved their civil and religious rights^[7]

Acadians residing in Nova Scotia appeal to Île-Royale (Cape Breton Island) leader for advice and assistance^[8]

"Demands we cannot agree to" - Acadians tell Governor Philipps they cannot take oath because they fear "savages" will retaliate^[9]

Nova Scotia described in its mineral and agricultural potential, its settlements and people (Note: "savage" and other racial stereotypes)^[10]

Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, . Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
Pierre-F.-X. de Charlevoix, "Letter I; A Storm" (September 24, 1720), Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres (London, 1763), pgs. 4-5. Accessed 28 December 2020
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol32/pp165-187 "260i Commodore Percy to Council of Trade and Plantations; Answers to Heads of Enquiry relating to Trade and Fishery of Newfoundland"
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol32/pp187-195 "281i Lt. Governor Gledhill to Council of Trade and Plantations"
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol32/pp212-228 331 Keen to Board of Trade secretary
Richard Philipps, "To the Inhabitants of Menis and Places Adjacent" (April 28, 1720), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 21-2. Accessed 21 December 2020
https://archives.novascotia.ca/deportation/archives/?Number=ONEI&Page=25 "Letter of the inhabitants of Acadie to Mr. St. Ovide(....)"
https://archives.novascotia.ca/deportation/archives/?Number=ONEI&Page=28 "Letter from the inhabitants of Mines to Mr. Philipps(....)"
Paul Mascarene, "Description of Nova Scotia" (1720), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 39-49. Accessed 21 December 2020