1736 in Canada
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Events from the year 1736 in Canada.
Incumbents
Governors
Full date unknown
- Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau, Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye and 19 French voyageurs were headed from Fort St. Charles to Montreal via Fort St. Pierre. On their first night out they were massacred by Sioux warriors on a nearby island in Lake of the Woods. The date was June 8.
Deaths
- March 25 - François-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, explorer and soldier (born 1700).
Full date unknown
- Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye died May 10 of this year. In ill health he was travelling from Fort Maurepas (Canada) on the Red River to Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods. He was buried near the junction of the Red and Rousseau rivers (born 1708).
- Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye died June 6, the eldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (born 1713).
Historical Documents
"Cape Breton will remain a Thorn in our Sides" - With Cape Breton's troops and Acadians' numbers, French frustrate British in Nova Scotia[1]
Hudson's Bay Company orders ships north along Bay's western shore to establish trade and record details of land and waters[2]
French have no claim to Canada because merely asking Indigenous people for permission to settle gives foreigners right of dominion[3]
References
- Mr. Salmon, "Chap. VI; Of Nova Scotia or New-Scotland, and Acadie," Modern History; or, The Present State of All Nations; Describing their respective Situations[...]; Vol. XXXI, pgs. 338-42. Accessed 6 January 2021 https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131055421283D&R=DC-37131055421283D
- "Number XVI; Copies of Instructions given by the Hudson's Bay Company to their Officers abroad, so far as they relate to the Discovery of a North West Passage; To Mr. Richard Norton, and Council, at Prince of Wales's Fort" (May 6, 1736), Appendix to the Report relating to the Hudson's Bay Company, pg. 255. Accessed 6 January 2021 https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_02954/44?r=0&s=3
- Mr. Salmon, "Chap. I; Of the French Colonies on the Continent of North-America," Modern History; or, The Present State of All Nations; Describing their respective Situations[...]; Vol. XXXI, pgs. 554-7. Accessed 6 January 2021 https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131055421283D&R=DC-37131055421283D
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