1751 in Canada

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This article lists information about events from the year 1751 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

Governors

• Governor General of New France: Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Edward Cornwallis
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Francis William Drake

Events

• Fort La Jonquière was established in 1751 by Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre on the Saskatchewan River (probably in the Nipawin, Sask. area).

Births

• Philip Turnor, HBC inland surveyor (died 1799)

Historical documents

"Good harmony [seems to be] thoroughly re-established between them" - Quiet times between French and British on Chignecto Isthmus in 1751-5 ^[3]

Sieur de Saint-Ours twice rescues British ship crews threatened by Indigenous people, and is thanked (Note: "savages" used) ^[4]

"Several acts of violence committed by the English" is France's complaint about British naval attacks off Nova Scotia ^[5]

"We are extreamly glad to hear that so few of the better sort [have left]" - Edward Cornwallis right to stop Acadians from leaving Nova Scotia ^[6]

Description of Acadian salt marsh farming includes its extent (for miles) and fertilization (Note: anti-Catholic comment) ^[7]

Agreement between superior of Huron mission at Detroit and its new farmer sets out latter's duties and share of farm produce ^[8]

French pursue westward expansion, strengthening Fort Niagara and sending settlers to Detroit and western Lake Erie ^[9]

Map: North America, showing Canada and Louisiana ^[10]

Massachusetts lieutenant governor informs legislature of New York governor's call to meet with Six Nations in Albany in June ^[11]

Benjamin Franklin says "securing the Friendship of the Indians is of the greatest Consequence to these Colonies" (Note: "savages" used) ^[12]

Connecticut will attend Albany conference to shore up Six Nations' loyalty and block French attempts to "render [it] precarious" ^[13]

British must act on opportunity to counter French policy to draw Six Nations and other Indigenous peoples to them ^[14]

Though expensive for France to maintain, Canada should be kept to thwart "the ambition of the English" in America ^[15]

"Deserve our approbation" - Mi'kmaq gratify French to same degree they earn writer's condemnation for "perfidy and cruelty" (Note: "savage" used) ^[16]

Quebec governor insists Haudenosaunee are in control of their lands, but New York governor lists reasons why British own them ^[17]

References

1. Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
2. "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
3. "Whether it was owing" The Mystery Reveal'd, or, Truth Brought to Light (1759), pg. 13. Accessed 13 December 2021
4. "The 15th of February 1751" in Letter XVIII, Genuine Letters and Memoirs, Relating to the[...]History of the Islands of Cape Breton, and Saint John; By an impartial Frenchman (translation; 1760), pgs. 272-4. Accessed 15 December 2021
5. "Number III" (January 5, 1751), The Mystery Reveal'd, or, Truth Brought to Light (1759), pgs. 66-73. Accessed 13 December 2021
6. "Extract from a Letter of the Lords of Trade to Governor Cornwallis" (March 22, 1751), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pg. 196. Accessed 15 December 2021
7. "The method by which the French inhabitants improve their lands" The Importance of Settling and Fortifying Nova Scotia (1751), pgs. 10-13. Accessed 14 December 2021
8. "Janis took the farm" (July 25, 1751), Father De La Richardie's Book of Accounts, The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents; Vol. LXX. Accessed 15 December 1751 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_70.html (scroll down to Page 67)
9. "This they first attempted" The Contest in America between Great Britain and France (1757), pg. 80. Accessed 15 December 2021
10. Eman T. Bowen, "North America, Laid Down from the Best Modern Maps, 1751" McCord Museum. Accessed 15 December 2021
11. Speech of Lieutenant Governor (January 16, 1751), Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; v.27, 1750-1751, pg. 102. Accessed 16 December 2021
12. Letter of Benjamin Franklin (March 20, 1751), U.S. National Archives. Accessed 16 December 2021
13. Connecticut General Assembly, "Act Appointing Commissioners to Albany" (May 1751), New England Indian Papers Series, Yale Library. (See instructions to commissioners) Accessed 16 December 2021
14. "The other Letter" (dated August 31, 1751), French Policy Defeated (1760), pgs. 27-8. Accessed 15 December 2021
15. M. le Marquis de la Galissonniere, "Memoir: On the Colonies of France in North America; Article 2; Of the Importance and the Necessity of Preserving Canada and Louisiana" (translation; 1751), in Anglo-French Boundary Disputes in the West, 1749-1763, French Series, Volume II, Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume XXVII (1936), pgs. 0007-11. Accessed 1 March 2021
16. "Memorial furnished by the French ministry in April, 1751" (translated excerpt), "Preface," An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets[....] (1758), pgs. i-iii. Accessed 5 January 2022
17. "Marquis de la Jonquière to Governor Clinton" (August 10, 1751; translation) and "Governor Clinton's Notes on the Governor of Canada's Letter," Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, pgs. 731-2, 735-6. Accessed 14 December 2020