1733 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1733 in Canada.
Incumbents
Louis XV[1]
George II[2]
Governors
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
Étienne Perier
Lawrence Armstrong
Edward Falkingham
Events
Births
Historical documents
Hudson's Bay Company chief factor roams to expand trade, "to the Hazard of my Life," doubling number of skins from "Northern Indians"[5]
HBC will sell for 1 beaver skin: 12 needles, 12 buttons, 6 thimbles, 2 scrapers, 1 lb. thread, or 3/4 lb. coloured beads[6]
HBC mason rises above others' incompetence at Churchill River construction site, and sketches winter fishing, hunting and timber work[7]
Extensive summary of century of English and French claims to Acadia supports French descendant's right to her property in Nova Scotia[8]
French threat in Nova Scotia shows need for Palatines, Newfoundland "straglers," and soldiers with wives to help "peopling the countrey"[9]
Lt. Gov. Armstrong orders troops to Minas and boat from Boston to prevent remote Nova Scotia becoming "more independent of the English"[10]
Armstrong plans to employ surveyor "to make out a plan of the woods and lands in the Bay of Fundy" and elsewhere in Nova Scotia[11]
Receiving ordnance at Annapolis, Armstrong calls for some at Canso, and also effort to undercut traders' prices to please Indigenous people[12]
"Cope[...]Agreed to the Justness of their Demand" - Nova Scotia Council decides in favour of workers' wage demand from colliery management[13]
Lt. Gov. Armstrong orders Nova Scotia Council members to address chair at their meetings, and not "Reproach and Reprimand one another"[14]
"Redress" - New York governor Cosby rectifies fraud Corporation of Albany used to cheat Kanien’kéhà:ka of 1,000 acres of their land[15]
Cosby explains how expanding settlement of northern New York requires "forts in places more advanced towards Canada"[16]
Cosby recounts answering request from Île-Royale for emergency food supplies and comments on precarious condition of Louisbourg[17]
In Newfoundland, "the New England traders do still continue to carry away numbers of fishermen and seamen"[18]
"Generally trusted on the credit of their masters,[...]many [fishers run debts too high to pay and] endeavour to get to New England"[19]
£500 sterling is penalty for any "ships belonging and bound to New England[...]to carry any men more than their ship's company"[20]
There is winter "furring trade" in Trinity Bay and north of Cape Bonavista, "but I don't learn that they have any traffick with the Indians"[21]
Contract between missionary priest and blacksmith who will work in the Wendat (Huron) village at Detroit (Note: "savages" used)[22]
Notes and References
- Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
- Web site: 30 December 2015 . George I . 18 April 2016 . Official web site of the British monarchy.
- https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/la-corriveau "Corriveau, La"
- https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/daniel-dauger-de-subercase "Daniel d'Auger de Subercase"
- https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_02954/60?r=0&s=3 "From Richard Norton, Prince of Wales's Fort, August 16, 1733"
- https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.35075/208 "Standard of Trade...at Albany Fort, Moose River, and the East Main, as it stood in the Year 1733....
- Joseph Robson, "An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay" (1752), pgs. 9-12. Accessed 4 June 2021
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp216-232 "367 Council of Trade and Plantations to Committee of Privy Council"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp216-232 370 Anonymous assessment of colonial security needs
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp135-154 "247 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp232-243 390 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp216-232 372 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations
- https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Three&Page=288 "Thomas Rawden &c Petition Complaining of Major Cape (sic) and Compy."
- https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Three&Page=276 "Att a Council held...the Seventh day of March 1732/3"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp243-262 "440 Governor Cosby to the Council of Trade and Plantations"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp243-262 438 Letter of Gov. Cosby
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp243-262 439, 440, 440 iii Correspondence re supplies sent to Louisbourg
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp179-197 347 i (lvii) Answers to Newfoundland survey questions
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp179-197 347 i (lii) Answers to Newfoundland survey questions
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp179-197 347 i (lviii) Answers to Newfoundland survey questions
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol40/pp179-197 347 i (xxxviii) Answers to Newfoundland survey questions
- "Contract with Jean Cecile, Toolmaker" (July 16, 1733), Mission of the Hurons at Detroit, 1733-56, The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents; Vol. LIX; Lower Canada, Illinois, Ottawas, 1667-1669 [sic]. Accessed 4 June 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_69.html (scroll down to Page 239)
