1733 in Canada
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Events from the year 1733 in Canada.
Incumbents[edit]
Governors[edit]
- Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Étienne Perier
- Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong
- Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Edward Falkingham
Events[edit]
- Vitus Bering's second expedition, with George Wilhelm Steller aboard, the first naturalist to visit Alaska.
Births[edit]
- Marie-Josephte Corriveau, criminal (died 1763)[3]
- François Baby, politician and businessman[4]
Deaths[edit]
Historical documents[edit]
Hudson's Bay Company chief factor roams to expand trade, "to the Hazard of my Life," doubling number of skins from "Northern Indians"[5]
HBC will sell for 1 beaver skin: 12 needles, 12 buttons, 6 thimbles, 2 scrapers, 1 lb. thread, or 3/4 lb. coloured beads[6]
HBC mason rises above others' incompetence at Churchill River construction site, and sketches winter fishing, hunting and timber work[7]
Extensive summary of century of English and French claims to Acadia supports French descendant's right to her property in Nova Scotia[8]
French threat in Nova Scotia shows need for Palatines, Newfoundland "straglers," and soldiers with wives to help "peopling the countrey"[9]
Lt. Gov. Armstrong orders troops to Minas and boat from Boston to prevent remote Nova Scotia becoming "more independent of the English"[10]
Armstrong plans to employ surveyor "to make out a plan of the woods and lands in the Bay of Fundy" and elsewhere in Nova Scotia[11]
Receiving ordnance at Annapolis, Armstrong calls for some at Canso, and also effort to undercut traders' prices to please Indigenous people[12]
"Cope[...]Agreed to the Justness of their Demand" - Nova Scotia Council decides in favour of workers' wage demand from colliery management[13]
Lt. Gov. Armstrong orders Nova Scotia Council members to address chair at their meetings, and not "Reproach and Reprimand one another"[14]
"Redress" - New York governor Cosby rectifies fraud Corporation of Albany used to cheat Kanien’kéhà:ka of 1,000 acres of their land[15]
Cosby explains how expanding settlement of northern New York requires "forts in places more advanced towards Canada"[16]
Cosby recounts answering request from Île-Royale for emergency food supplies and comments on precarious condition of Louisbourg[17]
In Newfoundland, "the New England traders do still continue to carry away numbers of fishermen and seamen"[18]
"Generally trusted on the credit of their masters,[...]many [fishers run debts too high to pay and] endeavour to get to New England"[19]
£500 sterling is penalty for any "ships belonging and bound to New England[...]to carry any men more than their ship's company"[20]
There is winter "furring trade" in Trinity Bay and north of Cape Bonavista, "but I don't learn that they have any traffick with the Indians"[21]
Contract between missionary priest and blacksmith who will work in the Wendat (Huron) village at Detroit (Note: "savages" used)[22]
References[edit]
- ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
- ^ "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ "Corriveau, La" Archived 2017-08-12 at the Wayback Machine. The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Daniel d'Auger de Subercase" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ "From Richard Norton, Prince of Wales's Fort, August 16, 1733" Number XXVI; Representations made[...]by Mr. Richard Norton[....], pg. 271. Accessed 4 June 2021
- ^ "Standard of Trade...at Albany Fort, Moose River, and the East Main, as it stood in the Year 1733.... Arthur Dobbs, An Account of the Countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay[....] (1744), pgs.193-5. Accessed 4 June 2021
- ^ Joseph Robson, "An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay" (1752), pgs. 9-12. Accessed 4 June 2021
- ^ "367 Council of Trade and Plantations to Committee of Privy Council" (October 23, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 7 June 2021
- ^ 370 Anonymous assessment of colonial security needs (endorsed October 28, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 7 June 2021
- ^ "247 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (July 10, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 7 June 2021
- ^ 390 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations (November 20, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 8 June 2021
- ^ 372 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations (October 29, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 7 June 2021
- ^ "Thomas Rawden &c Petition Complaining of Major Cape (sic) and Compy." N.S. Council meeting (September 28, 1733), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 288-9. Accessed 4 June 2021
- ^ "Att a Council held...the Seventh day of March 1732/3" Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 276. Accessed 4 June 2021
- ^ "440 Governor Cosby to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (December 15, 1733), 441 i (xxv) Accusations against Cosby re Albany deed Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 8 June 2021 (Note: controversy continues in Calendar of State Papers)
- ^ 438 Letter of Gov. Cosby (December 15, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 8 June 2021
- ^ 439, 440, 440 iii Correspondence re supplies sent to Louisbourg (December 15, 1733), 441, 441 i (xxvii-xxx) Accusations re supply effort Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 8 June 2021 (Note: controversy continues in Calendar of State Papers)
- ^ 347 i (lvii) Answers to Newfoundland survey questions (September 9, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 7 June 2021
- ^ 347 i (lii) Answers to Newfoundland survey questions (September 9, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 7 June 2021
- ^ 347 i (lviii) Answers to Newfoundland survey questions (September 9, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 7 June 2021
- ^ 347 i (xxxviii) Answers to Newfoundland survey questions (September 9, 1733), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 40, 1732. Accessed 7 June 2021
- ^ "Contract with Jean Cecile, Toolmaker" (July 16, 1733), Mission of the Hurons at Detroit, 1733-56, The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents; Vol. LIX; Lower Canada, Illinois, Ottawas, 1667-1669 [sic]. Accessed 4 June 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_69.html (scroll down to Page 239)
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