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Events from the year 1740 in Canada.
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Description of making and using Mi'kmaw canoes, both moosehide (in past) and birchbark currently used [4]
Woman in Montreal who needs money sells enslaved 20-year-old Pawnee named Manon for 300 livres "in receipts from the Beaver trade" [5]
In spring and summer, Joseph La France canoes Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods, meeting Monsoni Ojibwe and "Sturgeon Indians" [6]
Suffering from gout, Jesuit ministers to Indigenous people, parish of 400 and distant members of his flock near Montreal (Note: "savages" used) [7]
Council president Paul Mascarene "notifies the Indians and inhabitants" of Nova Scotia that King has declared war on King of Spain [8]
To preserve "Indulgence they have heitherto Enjoyed," Acadians are reminded to conform to government orders and decisions [9]
Mascarene letter (summary) ends with warning to Acadians to be loyal or face reaction that "will involve the innocent with the guilty" [10]
Acadian deputies to handle "restless spirits" so that "community may not make itself suspected, and avoid the ruin which may overtake it" [11]
Mascarene specifies some civil service roles, and is concerned that in "these thirty years past," Protestants have not peopled Nova Scotia [12]
Handling Acadians' need for new land when it is allowed only to Protestants means letting them take land anyway or expelling them [13]
Fearing unauthorized priest will direct when "a stroke" is to be given their government, Council decides his community must expel him [14]
Priests forbidden to excommunicate "Whereby to Deprive His Majesty's Subjects[...]of Assistance or means To Procure their Livelyhood" [15]
Mascarene advises missionary priest of King's supremacy over both Catholic Church and his conduct in Nova Scotia [16]
Mascarene reports that some shippers into and out of Nova Scotia are not clearing with port authorities [17]
"Succeeded far above our Expectations" - "Indian trade" at Oswego has undercut prices at Montreal by half and increased trade fivefold [18]
"Be always on your Guard" - Hudson's Bay Company urges Bay staff to be prepared for (probably unlikely) attack by Spanish [19]
Given war with Spain and perhaps France, chief factor at Prince of Wales Fort cancels next year's northern expedition in order to augment defences [20]
Events from the year 1730 in Canada.
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Events from the year 1737 in Canada.
Events from the year 1738 in Canada.
Events from the year 1741 in Canada.
Events from the year 1742 in Canada.
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Events from the year 1744 in Canada.
Events from the year 1745 in Canada.
Events from the year 1746 in Canada.
Events from the year 1748 in Canada.
Events from the year 1749 in Canada.
Events from the year 1754 in Canada.
Events from the year 1736 in Canada.
Jean-Paul Mascarene was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as commander of the 40th Regiment of Foot and governor of Nova Scotia from 1740 to 1749. During this period, he led the colony through King George's War with the French, and rose to the rank of Major-general. He is best known for repulsing two French attempts to capture Annapolis Royal in 1744 and 1745.
Events from the year 1739 in Canada.
Events from the year 1727 in Canada.
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