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Events from the year 1754 in Canada.
British not disposed to negotiating with French until they (among other things) give up parts of Nova Scotia they have taken [3]
New York asks Six Nations to treaty talks, but they delay over concerns about land, Ohio fighting and (false) smallpox news from Albany [4]
Convention at Albany of colonial officials hears from Indigenous leaders before drawing up plan for union of British colonies [5]
Albany Plan of Union would end weakness of disunity, create protective colonies on Great Lakes and regulate "Indian" trade and purchases [6]
Apparently, British government planned combined operations against French on Ohio River, and at Niagara, Crown Point and Fort Beauséjour [7]
Strategic analysis suggests attacks on French at Niagara and Crown Point, rather than Ohio, as easiest and cheapest [8]
France wants New York most because of its proximity to Canada and its Lake Ontario trade route, and (from French intelligence) its weaknesses [9]
"Under no kind of discipline" - British colonial troops practice "licentiousness, under the notion of liberty," toward authority [10]
Timeline of preparations for war against French in New England and Nova Scotia [11]
Acadians will not have to bear arms because British constitution "makes it both unsafe & unprecedented" for Catholics to do so [12]
Officer at Annapolis warned not to trust treacherous Le Loutre, but stay open to peaceful intentions under treaty with Kopit [13]
"Would be much better[...]that they were away" - Charles Lawrence details Acadians' non-compliance, but also their "ill humour" toward French [14]
Lawrence recommends demolishing Fort Beauséjour and moving nearby Acadians either within Nova Scotia or "totally away by Fire and Sword" [15]
"Too insolent and absurd" - Le Loutre's take on current affairs and list of Mi'kmaw demands are rejected by N.S. Council (Note: "savages" used) [16]
Control of "corn" (grain) sales will divert it from Beauséjour and estranged Saint John River area and toward underserved Halifax market [17]
Council agrees to aid Acadian families' return home after their unsuccessful exodus to Cape Breton at Le Loutre's urging [18]
On staff of Fort Beauséjour, spy for British reports on Le Loutre's intimidation of parishioners [19]
To thwart French seduction, New York Indian affairs commissioners want each of Six Nations to draw its dispersed members into one "castle" [20]
Cayuga sachems say that if rum is made available to them, "they Cannot Remain A Nation" and will relocate to Canada, where rum is prohibited [21]
"Trembling alive with fear" - New Hampshire woman begins account of captivity among Indigenous people in Canada (Note: "savages" used) [22]
Events from the year 1740 in Canada.
Events from the year 1744 in Canada.
Events from the year 1745 in Canada.
Events from the year 1748 in Canada.
Events from the year 1749 in Canada.
Events from the year 1750 in Canada.
Events from the year 1751 in Canada.
Events from the year 1753 in Canada.
Events from the year 1755 in Canada.
Events from the year 1756 in Canada.
Events from the year 1757 in Canada.
Events from the year 1764 in Canada.
Events from the year 1765 in Canada.
Fort Lawrence was a British fort built during Father Le Loutre's War and located on the Isthmus of Chignecto.
The Battle of Fort Beauséjour was fought on the Isthmus of Chignecto and marked the end of Father Le Loutre's War and the opening of a British offensive in the Acadia/Nova Scotia theatre of the Seven Years' War, which would eventually lead to the end of the French colonial empire in North America. The battle also reshaped the settlement patterns of the Atlantic region, and laid the groundwork for the modern province of New Brunswick.
Fort Gaspareaux was a French fort at the head of Baie Verte near the mouth of the Gaspareaux River and just southeast of the modern community of Strait Shores, New Brunswick, Canada, on the Isthmus of Chignecto. It was built during Father Le Loutre's War and is now a National Historic Site of Canada overlooking the Northumberland Strait.
John Rous was a Royal Navy officer and privateer. He served during King George's War and the French and Indian War. Rous was also the senior naval officer on the Nova Scotia station during Father Le Loutre's War. Rous' daughter Mary married Richard Bulkeley and is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755), also known as the Indian War, the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the British and New England colonists were led by British officer Charles Lawrence and New England Ranger John Gorham. On the other side, Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre led the Mi'kmaq and the Acadia militia in guerrilla warfare against settlers and British forces. At the outbreak of the war there were an estimated 2500 Mi'kmaq and 12,000 Acadians in the region.
The Acadian Exodus happened during Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755) and involved almost half of the total Acadian population of Nova Scotia deciding to relocate to French controlled territories. The three primary destinations were: the west side of the Mesagoueche River in the Chignecto region, Isle Saint-Jean and Île-Royale. The leader of the Exodus was Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre, whom the British gave the code name "Moses". Le Loutre acted in conjunction with Governor of New France Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière who encouraged the Acadian migration. A prominent Acadian who transported Acadians to Ile St. Jean and Ile Royal was Joseph-Nicolas Gautier. The overall upheaval of the early 1750s in Nova Scotia was unprecedented. Present-day Atlantic Canada witnessed more population movements, more fortification construction, and more troop allocations than ever before in the region. The greatest immigration of the Acadians between 1749 and 1755 took place in 1750. Primarily due to natural disasters and British raids, the Exodus proved to be unsustainable when Acadians tried to develop communities in the French territories.
Fort Menagoueche was a French fort at the mouth of the St. John River, New Brunswick, Canada. French Officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot and Ignace-Philippe Aubert de Gaspé built the fort during Father Le Loutre's War and eventually burned it themselves as the French retreated after losing the Battle of Beausejour. It was reconstructed as Fort Frederick by the British.
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