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Events from the year 1743 in Canada.
Incumbents
Governors
- Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville then Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
- Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
- Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas Smith
Events
- Concentrated hunting of sea otter by Russia begins.
- Father Claude-Godefroy Coquart joins La Vérendrye at Fort La Reine becoming the first recorded missionary in present-day Manitoba and the first to travel beyond Lake of the Woods.
Deaths
- April 11 - Jean-Baptiste Chardon, jesuit missionary (born 1672).
Historical documents
Montreal merchant sells five enslaved Black people (2 men, 3 "women and girls") in Quebec City for 3,000 livres
Ordinance refers to 445,000-livre construction expense for Montreal wall, with part of 115,500 livres paid by city returned by king
Any war declared against France need not involve Acadians and Indigenous people, "if they are wise" (Note: "savages" used)
Nova Scotia president Mascarene points out dangers of having potentially insurgent population, far too few soldiers and poor defences in case of war
Council hears "Indians no Intention to take or Pillage the Traders," but orders all to "even by forcePrevent all Such Robberys"
Council orders priests (and their parishioners) to get its prior consent to enter Nova Scotia, and not "behave themselves Irregularly"
Mascarene satisfied with all but one priest and says "if everyone aims at the same End We may prevent trouble from approaching Us"
Visitor to Onondaga describes town and its situation, longhouse, and "comical fellow" with mask, staff and rattle
Sixteen-year-old James Wolfe marches "in the greatest Spirits shall be very well able to hold it out with a Little help of a Horse"
References
- Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
- "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Sale of five Black slaves, Québec, 25 September 1743" (translation), Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 22 September 2021
- "Ordinance relative to the fortifications of Montréal, 1 May 1743" (translation), Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 22 September 2021
- "Govr. Mascarene to Alexander Bourg" (October 21, 1743), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 126-7. Accessed 22 September 2021
- "Governor Mascarene to Secretary of State" (excerpt; December 1, 1743), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 128-30. (See elaboration of these deficiencies) Accessed 22 September 2021
- "At a Council held by order of the Honble Paul Mascarene Esqre Presidt(....)" (October 10, 1743), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1736-1749, pgs. 40-1. Accessed 22 September 2021
- "Collection of Orders(...)in Relation to The Missionary Romish Priests" ("as by Minute of Council," March 1, 1743), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 124-5. Accessed 22 September 2021
- "Gov. Mascarene to M. Goudalie, Priest" (November 14, 1743), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 127-8. Accessed 22 September 2021
- "We alighted at the council house(...)" ObservationsMade by Mr. John Bartram, in his Travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario (1751), pgs. 40-4 (entry of July 21, 1743). Accessed 21 September 2021
- Letter of James Wolfe (February 12, 1743), General Wolfe's Letters to His Parents. Accessed 23 September 2021 https://collections.library.utoronto.ca/view/wolfe:F7025 (swipe to F7025_0029_L006_02)
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