1728 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1728 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch

Louis XV^[1]

• British and Irish Monarch

George II^[2]

Governors

• Governor General of New France

Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois

• Colonial Governor of Louisiana

Étienne Perier

• Governor of Nova Scotia

Lawrence Armstrong

• Governor of Placentia

Samuel Gledhill

Events

• Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye was appointed commandant of the French posts on the north shore of Lake Superior and stationed at Fort Kaministiquia.^[3]
• Vitus Bering sails through the Bering Strait.

Births

• - James Cook killed by Hawaiian natives, cutting short his search for Northwest Passage. (died 1779)
• Samuel Holland, army officer, military engineer, surveyor, office holder, politician, and landowner (died 1801)

Deaths

• February 20 - J Raudot, Intendant of New France (born 1638)

Historical documents

Nova Scotia governor petitions King for measures to address long-standing problems of defence, communication and control^[4]

Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods instructed to mark out at least 200,000 acres of forest in Nova Scotia for Royal Navy use^[5]

"Uninhabited (except by a few Indians)" - Petition to settle colonial grey zone (now in Maine) between British and French claims^[6]

"Deep Bays, large Coves and Rivers, and most excellent Harbours" - Guide to sailing charted Newfoundland coasts^[7]

Notes and References

1. Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
2. Web site: 30 December 2015 . George I . 18 April 2016 . Official web site of the British monarchy.
3. Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, Pierre . Yves F. . Zoltvany . 3 .
4. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol36/pp87-107 213 i and ii
5. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol36/pp107-113 "234 i Draught of H.M. Instructions to David Dunbar, Surveyor General of H.M. Woods on the Continent of America"
6. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol36/pp129-143 "285 Memorial and proposal...for settling the waste lands between the River St. Croix, the boundary of Nova Scotia and the River Kennebec, the boundary of Maine, N.E."
7. https://archive.org/details/cihm_16654/page/n561/mode/1up "Sailing Directions for the East and South Coasts of the great Island of Newfoundland, or so much thereof as is fully survey'd; the North and East Parts, and those formerly possess'd by the French, being not yet finish'd"