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

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Historical documents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

  1. Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. Web site: 30 December 2015 . George I . 18 April 2016 . Official web site of the British monarchy.
  3. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84024358/1737-08-29/ed-1/seq-2/ "From the Daily-Post, London"
  4. Gilles Hocquart, "Description of Canadians" (translation; 1737), France Archives nationales. Accessed 19 July 2021
  5. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.35453/48?r=0&s=3 Letter V
  6. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.35453/73?r=0&s=3 "we saw a large cabin"
  7. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84024358/1737-09-12/ed-1/seq-3/ "Boston, Sept. 17"
  8. https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Four&Page=14 Council meeting minutes
  9. https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Four&Page=11 Council meeting minutes
  10. 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"
  11. 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"
  12. https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Two&Page=217 Instructions to incoming Gatherer of Rents
  13. https://archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/archives/?Number=Two&Page=210 "Proclamation for Settling the Province"
  14. 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"
  15. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.30214/55?r=0&s=1 The Names of the Society's Missionaries, Chatechists, and School-Masters
  16. 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
  17. 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"
  18. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84024358/1737-06-06/ed-1/seq-1/ "The Speech of His Excellency Jonathan Belcher"
  19. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol43/pp129-142 275 Letter of Lt. Gov. George Clarke
  20. 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
  21. 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