1704 in Canada

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Events from the year 1704 in Canada.

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  • French destroy the English settlement at Bonavista, Newfoundland.[1]

Historical Documents

Massachusetts governor gives details of French and Indigenous attacks planned for Connecticut River and Maine and his attack on Acadia[2]

Account of a Massachusetts boy abducted by French and Indigenous raiders[3]

Massachusetts correspondent on huge benefit France has from commercial ascendancy and number of seamen in its Newfoundland fishery[4]

During war with France, defending St. John's complicated by soldier disorder and desertions and limited support from outports[5]

References
  1. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-of-the-spanish-succession/
  2. "455. Governor Dudley to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (July 13, 1704), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 22, 1704-1705. Accessed 13 January 2021 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol22/pp211-223
  3. George Sheldon (ed.), What Befell Stephen Williams in His Captivity (Deerfield, Mass.: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1889). Accessed 6 October 2017 http://memorialhall.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=5734&level=advanced&transcription=0&img=1
  4. "69. i. Reflections on the present settlement of Newfoundland" (Peter (?) Webber, Barnstable, Mass. to Council of Trade and Plantations, February 5, 1703/4), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 22, 1704-1705. Accessed 13 January 2021 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol22/pp25-41
  5. "2. i. Capt. Richards to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (January 3, 1703/4), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 22, 1704-1705. Accessed 13 January 2021 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol22/pp1-16


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