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Events from the year 1738 in Canada.
New York colonial officials describe French military assets [3]
New York lieutenant governor warns against new French settlement and treaty with Senecas for fort that will end trade at Oswego [4]
Regarding greater settlement of Nova Scotia, Council gives reasons it has not been possible (and it is not because they are military men) [5]
Settlers with cattle have arrived on Sable Island, and will "Succour, Help and Releive[sic]" any shipwreck victims tossed up there [6]
Tired of "meeting daily and almost constantly" to address litigious people's "frivolous and undigested Complaints," Council sets sittings [7]
Lieutenant governor Armstrong tells official to act with "Lenity, Good humour and[...]live as Peaceably and Quietly with all men as possible" [8]
Many of 8,000 men in Newfoundland fishery are "fresh land-men" who through hard work and weather "become pretty good sailors" [9]
Newfoundland will begin prosecuting capital offences, sparing testifiers expensive trip to British court and loss of year's fishing [10]
Newfoundland governor reports opposition to Irish Catholic immigrants for criminality and danger they pose to Protestants in any war [11]
Cree promise La Vérendrye they will not trade at York Factory, and he builds fort at portage on which people "go to the English" [12]
Program of events celebrating Pierre Gaultier de la Vérendrye's 1738 arrival in what is now Winnipeg [13]
Chief factor at Churchill reports that many "Northern Indians" were "put to such Streights in the Winter" that many "perished with Hunger" [14]
Correspondents discuss apparent but not yet accepted need to find Northwest Passage, and ways to increase enthusiasm for it [15]
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader, and explorer. In the 1730s, he and his four sons explored the area west of Lake Superior and established trading posts there. They were part of a process that added Western Canada to the original New France territory that was centred along the Saint Lawrence basin.
Events from the year 1713 in Canada.
Events from the year 1720 in Canada.
Events from the year 1726 in Canada.
Events from the year 1728 in Canada.
Events from the year 1731 in Canada.
Events from the year 1732 in Canada.
Events from the year 1734 in Canada.
Events from the year 1735 in Canada.
Events from the year 1737 in Canada.
Events from the year 1740 in Canada.
Events from the year 1741 in Canada.
Events from the year 1742 in Canada.
Events from the year 1743 in Canada.
Events from the year 1744 in Canada.
Events from the year 1749 in Canada.
Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye was a French Canadian fur trader and explorer. He, his three brothers, and his father Pierre La Vérendrye pushed trade and exploration west from the Great Lakes. He, his brother, and two colleagues are thought to be the first Europeans to have crossed the northern Great Plains and seen the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming.
Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye de Boumois was the second son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye. An explorer and fur trader who served many years under the command of his father, he was born on Île aux Vaches, near Sorel, New France.
Events from the year 1736 in Canada.
Events from the year 1739 in Canada.
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