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1750 in Canada

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Events from the year 1750 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Events

  • 1750s: Hudson's Bay Company Saskatchewan River region, reached by trade drummers sent out with goods to tempt the Indians to York.
  • c. 1750: The Ojibwa begin to emerge as a distinct tribal amalgamation of smaller independent bands.
  • German immigrants begin to arrive in numbers at Halifax.
  • Hidatsa villages, site of ancient trading fair, now with both French and Hudson's Bay representatives present each summer.

Births

  • James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician (d.1817)
  • Simon McTavish, fur trader and dealer in furs, militia officer, office holder, landowner, seigneur, and businessman (d.1804)

Deaths

Historical documents

  • British ambassador complains to French about forts built on Isthmus of Chignecto by de la Jonquière (hostilities ensue)[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.56267/17?r=0&s=1 "It is proper to observe"] An Impartial History of the Late War; Second Edition (1763), pgs. 16-20. Accessed 1 December 2021
  • Map: Fort Beauséjour on Isthmus of Chignecto[http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M1673.1 "Plan of the western part of the Chignecto Isthmus showing Beauséjour Fort and the surrounding area"] (ca. 1750), McCord Museum. (See also [http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M1673.2 "Plan of the Chignecto Isthmus showing Forts Beauséjour and Gaspareau"]) Accessed 6 December 2021
  • Edward Cornwallis reports that French intend to secure Chignecto with fortification and oath of allegiance (Note: "savages" used)[https://archives.novascotia.ca/deportation/archives/?Number=ONEI&Page=181 "Govr. Cornwallis to Duke of Bedford"] (excerpt; March 19, 1750), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 181-4. Accessed 6 December 2021
  • Cornwallis reports that Canadians threaten Acadians "with a general massacre[...]if they remain in the province" (Note: "savages" used)[https://archive.org/details/britishdiplomati49chan/page/9/mode/1up Note to Earl of Albemarle, British ambassador to France] (excerpt; June 4, 1750), British Diplomatic Instructions; 1689-1789; Volume VII, France, Part IV, 1745-1789, pgs. 9-10. Accessed 30 November 2021 (See [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.20368/88?r=0&s=1 Cornwallis letter with account] of incidents including this threat)
  • Cornwallis advises Minas Basin Acadians they are deceived by Canadians "to lead you to your ruin" (Note: "savages" used)[https://archives.novascotia.ca/deportation/archives/?Number=ONEI&Page=185 Letter of Edward Cornwallis] (translation; approved of by Council, April 19, 1750), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 185-7. (See [https://archives.novascotia.ca/deportation/archives/?Number=ONEI&Page=189 Cornwallis letter] of reconciliation but firmness toward Acadians) Accessed 6 December 2021
  • British captain reports on naval engagement with French ships carrying arms and provisions to Indigenous people along Bay of Fundy[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.37136/62?r=0&s=3 "An Extract of a Letter from Capt. Rous"] (October 31, 1750), A Memorial Containg a summary View of Facts, with Their Authorities[...]; Translated from the French (1757), pgs. 45-7. Accessed 2 December 2021
  • British ambassador says French unjustifiably occupy land from Chignecto to Saint John River before bilateral commission settles boundary[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.34807/43?r=0&s=1 "Memorial concerning Nova Scotia"] (July 7, 1750), in John Entick et al., The General History of the Late War; Vol. I (1763), pgs. 30-3. (See pro-French author's [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.37136/65?r=0&s=3 critical comments] on ambassador's remarks; also see British boundary commissioners' [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.34807/62?r=0&s=1 opening memorial] (September 21, 1750)) Accessed 1 December 2021
  • Letter from Father Le Loutre about movement of families to western Acadia and impatient wait for boundary decision (Note: "savages" used)[https://archives.novascotia.ca/deportation/archives/?Number=ONEI&Page=193 "From M. Loutre to M. Bigot, Commissary of New France"] (translation; August 15, 1750), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 193-4. (See [https://archives.novascotia.ca/deportation/archives/?Number=ONEI&Page=195 "Extract from a Document"] attributed to French officer who accuses Le Loutre of murdering British officer) Accessed 7 December 2021
  • French answer British allegations by saying they seek good relations but intend to defend their land against British aggression[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.37136/70?r=0&s=3 "A Memorial in Answer to the Complaints made by England"] (September 15, 1750), A Memorial Containing a summary View of Facts, with Their Authorities[...]; Translated from the French (1757), pgs. 53-6. Accessed 3 December 2021
  • Though at same latitude, Nova Scotia not "so agreeable" as southern France because of cold and fog, which forest-clearing would remedy[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.44277/9?r=0&s=1 "As to the Climate"] A Genuine Account of Nova Scotia (1750), pg. 4. Accessed 1 December 2021
  • Many in Halifax died of cold in winter of 1750 for lack of houses, and snow lying about tents "was enough to move the Heart of Stone"John Wilson, [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.20153/15?r=0&s=1 "Many unfortunate People"] A Genuine Narrative of the Transactions in Nova Scotia, Since the Settlement, June 1749[....], pg. 10. Accessed 1 December 2021
  • Pehr Kalm's visit to Niagara Falls facilitated by French at Fort Niagara after he shows with passports that he is not a British officer[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0010 "To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Kalm, 2 September 1750"] U.S. National Archives. Accessed 8 December 2021
  • Reports say Detroit has hundreds living on 30-40 farms "in a fine champaign country," and villages of Wendat, Potawatomi and Odawa[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.37998/238?r=0&s=1 "But at le Detroit"] The Contest in America between Great Britain and France (1757), pgs. 175-6. Accessed 3 December 2021
  • To find Northwest Passage, sail east from Asia to "where it is probable the Weather is milder, and the Seas clearer of Ice"Henry Ellis, [https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/345193/considerations-on-the-great-advantages-which-would-arise-fro?ctx=33e6beadcab3e2ef6ec65d148abeda26af30b7e5&idx=2 Considerations on the Great Advantages which would arise from the Discovery of the North West Passage] (1750), pg. 5. Accessed 6 December 2021

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