Events from the year 1742 in Canada.
Louis XV[1]
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Without Île-Royale "and other Indulgencies at the Treaty of Utrecht," France's fisheries would have "by this time been totally destroyed"[3]
"What humanity!" - French missionary surprised by Indigenous travel companions' generosity with game they hunt (Note: "savages" used)[4]
"Indefatigable, artful, insinuating" priests among Six Nations assert France's "Power and Grandeur" and "render the English[...]contemptible"[5]
Poor crop at Lorette means people must forage for food, "which is prejudicial[...]to their spiritual interests" (Note: "savages" used)[6]
Montreal renews law requiring ladders on roofs and by chimneys and attic battering rams, all in case of fire[7]
When Northwest Passage not found, Arthur Dobbs suggests locating trading posts up rivers that flow to Hudson Bay and James Bay[8]
Joseph La France canoes down Nelson River in warm, leafy spring and arrives at York Factory on June 29 to find ice and snow[9]
Nova Scotia Council president reminds Board of Trade that without their directives, he can maintain authority only through deputies[10]
Mascarene tells Bishop of Quebec that priests "who presume to exercise any ecclesiastical power" in Nova Scotia violate British law[11]
Rumours of war with France have not lessened Acadians' fidelity and obedience, except when growing families take "unappropriated lands"[12]
Unmistakable warning to Acadians: "By continuing in your disobedience, you will oblige us to make use of force to reduce you to your duty"[13]
Council hears first that ship's cables cut and ship robbed, then that cables and robbers found by Acadian deputies and "Indian Captains"[14]
"Offensive and unwholsome" - Heating Hudson's Bay Co. buildings includes capping chimneys when fires burn down to coals, causing headache[15]