1735 in Canada

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Events from the year 1735 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV ^[1]
• British and Irish Monarch: George II ^[2]

Governors

• Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

Events

• Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau came to Fort St. Charles with Pierre La Vérendrye to carry out his duties as a missionary.

Births

Full date unknown

• Alexander McKee, agent for the Indian Department (died 1799)

Historical documents

• Hudson's Bay Company charter allows it to impose its sovereignty (including making war) in lands "not possess'd by any Christian Power" ^[3]
• HBC employee describes Indigenous people's divination, and how his boss turned to them in 1735 when ship from England was overdue ^[4]
• Long description of activities and Christian customs of Haudenosaunee at Kahnawake (Note: racial stereotypes) ^[5]
• Pierre de la Vérendrye informs Gov. Beauharnois that Fort Maurepas on Red River near Lake Winnipeg has been built ^[6]
• Jesuit missionary afraid to go 3,600 miles to live alone with uncontacted Indigenous people "who dwell in holes" (Note: "savages" used) ^[7]
• Panis subject to enslavement in Canada by common practice, not formal law, and can be granted freedom (Note: "savages" used) ^[8]
• Intendant Gilles Hocquart reports two executions, for abduction and violence against six-year-old and for enslaved man's domestic thievery ^[9]
• Master carpenter to be paid for major job in Montreal with merchandise, four bottles of eau de vie, 30 bushels of wheat and cash ^[10]
• Brief details of defences and fishing fleets of Louisbourg and other French settlements in region ^[11]
• Fishers working banks near Canso may have single sloop or schooner catching 400-500 quintals or send out six to twelve boats or more ^[12]
• Previous complaints about poorly cured Canso fish arise because ships load fish before salt curing process is complete ^[13]
• Nova Scotia lieutenant governor Armstrong again repeats his requests for increased strength against subject Acadians and nearby French ^[14]
• Detailed reasons for settling Nova Scotia with numerous Protestants to protect northern limit of continental colonies against French ^[15]
• Detailed proposal for establishing settlers and civil government in Nova Scotia through trusteeship of "honble. and experienced persons" ^[16]
• Petition for poor London craftsmen to be settled in Nova Scotia with civil government (tied to petition for salt works in Bahamas) ^[17]
• Armstrong visits Minas and finds locals submissive "only from policy" while "inciting the Indians [—] those poor ignorant wretches" ^[18]
• "Stocks are Impaired & greatly deminished by such pernicious proceedings" - exporting cattle prohibited except through Annapolis Royal or Canso ^[19]
• Acadian deputies can't, as Catholics, execute Council orders, which it fixes by having them made constables "in their own privite affairs" ^[20]
• Council committee sets cordwood price after Armstrong declares overcharging French are entitled only to wood they personally need ^[21]
• "Some people here tell stories of Indians have been seen some years ago[...]nor did I see one person in Newfoundland had ever seen an Indian" ^[22]
• "This day was laid the first Stone of the Fortification here [in Schenectady, New York] under the discharge of the great Guns" ^[23]
• New York governor Cosby "laid hold of the people's apprehensions" to convince them money had to be spent on defence, no matter their "poverty" ^[24]
• Board of Trade suggests to Privy Council that Massachusetts pay for defences of Pemaquid, which has only eastern fort to check French ^[25]
• Gov. Belcher reports success in peace talks with "Cagnawagas," and suggests outlawing private trading to end cheating done to "Eastern Indians" ^[26]

References

1. Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
2. "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
3. Arthur Dobbs, Remarks upon Capt. Middleton's Defence (1744), pg. 6. Accessed 2 July 2021
4. "An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay" (1752), pg. 49. Accessed 12 July 2021
5. Letter of Father L.F. Nau (translation; October 2, 1735), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents[...]; Vol. LXVIII.; Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736. Accessed 13 July 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_68.html (scroll down to Page 259)
6. "La Vérendrye to Beauharnois" (original and translation; June 7, 1735), Journals and Letters of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de la Vérendrye and His Sons (1927), pgs. 197-8. Accessed 23 August 2021
7. Letter of Father J.P. Aulneau (translation; April 25, 1735), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents[...]; Vol. LXVIII.; Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736. Accessed 13 July 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_68.html (scroll down to Page 235, and to Page 247 for more details)
8. Letter of King to Beauharnois and Hocquart (translation; April 11, 1735), France Archives nationales. Accessed 12 July 2021
9. Letter of Gilles Hocquart (translation; October 1, 1735), France Archives nationales. Accessed 12 July 2021
10. "Agreement between François Soumande Delorme and Pierre Labier" (translation; February 2, 1735), Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 12 July 2021
11. "504 Capt. Cotterell to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 15, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
12. "504 (ix) Capt. Cotterell to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 15, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
13. "504 (xv, xvii) Capt. Cotterell to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 15, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
14. "195 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (December 8, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 14 July 2021
15. "592 1 Reasons for peopling of Nova Scotia" (June 10, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 14 July 2021
16. "22 Capt. Coram to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (July 11, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 14 July 2021
17. "546 Order of Committee of Privy Council" (May 1, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
18. "Extract from a Letter of Govr. Armstrong to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle" (December 8, 1735), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 102-3. Accessed 12 July 2021
19. "Order to Prevent Exportation of Cattle" (April 2, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Commission Book, 1720-1741, pgs. 204-5. Accessed 12 July 2021
20. "The Deputys Complaining" (April 28, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 322. Accessed 12 July 2021
21. "The price of Cordwood again Recommended to the Consideration of the Board" (February 3, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 312-13. Accessed 12 July 2021
22. "119 i 38 "Capt. Lee's replies to Heads of Enquiries" (September 29, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 14 July 2021
23. "Schenectady, in the County of Albany, April 25" New-York Gazette (June 9, 1735), image 3. Accessed 15 July 2021
24. "591 14 Governor Cosby to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (June 10, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 14 July 2021
25. "554 Council of Trade and Plantations to the Committee of the Privy Council" (May 7, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
26. "The Speech of his Excellency Jonathan Belcher(...)to the General Assembly (on) November 19, 1735" New-York Gazette (December 1, 1735), image 1. Accessed 15 July 1735