1737 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1737 in Canada.
Incumbents
Louis XV[1]
George II[2]
Governors
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville
Lawrence Armstrong
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Events
- Marguerite d'Youville (Born Varennes, France October 15, 1701 Died December 28, 1771) and some friends in Montreal, begin taking in the poor and educating abandoned children.
Births
Full date unknown
Deaths
Historical documents
Ways French try to surpass British include linking Canada and Louisiana through wheat- and lead-rich Great Lakes province called "Hanois(e)"[3]
Intendant says Canadians "have a too-high opinion of Themselves [to achieve] the success they are capable of in the arts, Agriculture and Commerce"[4]
French priest gets tough with shipwreck victims, calling their despair criminal in eyes of God, to whom they should offer their pain[5]
Shipwrecked priest learns respect for Indigenous people "whom a false prejudice makes us suppose incapable of thinking or reasoning"[6]
Ship carrying sugar from Jamaica to London loses 17 drowned plus one of three who made it to shore after it wrecks on Sable Island[7]
Minas Indigenous people are accused of forcing sloop captain and crew to give up trade cargo worth £1,546 New England currency[8]
Pre-teen servant confesses to intentionally burning his master's house, and Council delays judgment pending legal advice from Boston[9]
Board of Trade submits proposal for settlement of Nova Scotia under trustee-appointed council until assembly and government can be established[10]
Unemployed London carpenters and other artisans request free passage to and 200-acre grants in 14-miles-square township in Nova Scotia[11]
King's rent collector must: take in quit-rents, fines and arrearages; note all sales, exchanges and wills; and "take a Particular Account" of strangers[12]
In Nova Scotia, "all discoverers of mines or minerals [will have] an equal share with those who own and work them"[13]
Noting his seizure of smugglers' ship in Newfoundland, Navy captain hopes new admiralty court there will end such long-practised trade[14]
Mission society has missionaries at Trinity Bay, Newf. and Albany, N.Y. ("to the Mohawk-Indians") and schoolmasters at Annapolis Royal and Canso[15]
Trinity Bay can't support its missionary after "catching little Fish for two or three Voyages, and selling at a bad Market"[16]
Massachusetts governor gives brief details of military assets in Canada, and warns of danger to trade and Indigenous relations[17]
Gov. Belcher reports good results from talks and local contacts with Penobscot, citing benefit of "honestly and justly" observing treaties[18]
New York lieutenant governor will meet Six Nations to renew treaties and "keep them from" allowing French fort in Seneca country[19]
N.Y. lieutenant governor reports complaint from Gov. Beauharnois and query to Oswego officer about shooting at French canoe passing by[20]
Arthur Dobbs calls Hudson's Bay Company's 1736 bid to find Northwest Passage "idle or faulty," and company "unwilling to make the Attempt"[21]
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://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84024358/1737-08-29/ed-1/seq-2/ "From the Daily-Post, London"
- Gilles Hocquart, "Description of Canadians" (translation; 1737), France Archives nationales. Accessed 19 July 2021
- https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.35453/48?r=0&s=3 Letter V
- https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.35453/73?r=0&s=3 "we saw a large cabin"
- https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84024358/1737-09-12/ed-1/seq-3/ "Boston, Sept. 17"
- https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Four&Page=14 Council meeting minutes
- https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Four&Page=11 Council meeting minutes
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol43/pp111-129 "246 Council of Trade and Plantations to Committee of Privy Council"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol43/pp99-111 "201 i Petition of divers of H.M.'s subjects for a tract of land in Nova Scotia and a charter of incorporation"
- https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Two&Page=217 Instructions to incoming Gatherer of Rents
- https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Two&Page=210 "Proclamation for Settling the Province"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol43/pp240-250#anchorfn1 "Captain Fitzroy Henry Lee to Council of Trade and Plantations"
- https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.30214/55?r=0&s=1 The Names of the Society's Missionaries, Chatechists, and School-Masters
- https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.30214/41?r=0&s=2 Letter to Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol43/pp59-74 "121 i (16-17) Answer of Governor of Massachusetts to several queries received from Council of Trade and Plantations"
- https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84024358/1737-06-06/ed-1/seq-1/ "The Speech of His Excellency Jonathan Belcher"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol43/pp129-142 275 Letter of Lt. Gov. George Clarke
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol43/pp99-111 211, 211 i-iv Correspondence of Lt. Gov. George Clarke
- Arthur Dobbs, Letters III-IX Appendix, Remarks upon Capt. Middleton's Defence (1744), pgs. 90-9. (See Evidence that HBC did not support search for passage, pgs. 18-20) Accessed 29 July 2021
