Events from the year 1734 in Canada.
Incumbents
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French Monarch
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.
Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I () as the firs ...
:
Louis XV
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British and Irish Monarch:
George II
Governors
*
Governor General of New France:
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
*
Colonial Governor of Louisiana:
Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville
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Governor of Nova Scotia
The following is a list of the governors and lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Nova Scotia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the po ...
:
Lawrence Armstrong
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Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland:
Edward Falkingham
Events
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Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye establishes the first
Fort Maurepas on the Red River about five leagues south of
Lake Winnipeg, third of the main
La Vérendrye
La Vérendrye, La Verendrye or Verendrye may refer to:
People
*Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (1685–1749), French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer, often called simply "La Vérendrye". His sons were:
**Jean ...
posts. (
Fort Saint Pierre on Rainy River; reactivated;
Fort St. Charles
Fort Saint Charles (1732) on Lake of the Woods was the second post built by La Vérendrye during his expansion of trade and exploration west of Lake Superior. It was located on Magnuson's Island on the Northwest Angle of Minnesota, 3.5 miles ea ...
on
Lake of the Woods
Lake of the Woods (french: Lac des Bois, oj, Pikwedina Sagainan) is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. Lake of the Woods is over long and wide, containing more than 14,55 ...
.)
* A
Montreal slave named
Marie-Joseph Angelique learns that she is to be sold to someone else. Possibly, to obscure her attempt to escape, she may have set fire to the house of her mistress,
Thérèse de Couagne. The fire could not be contained, causing damage to half of
Old Montreal. She was charged, tried and hanged, bringing attention to the conditions of the
slaves
Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...
.
Births
Deaths
*June 21:
Marie-Josèphe-Angélique, accused of setting a fire in April that burned part of Montréal.
Historical documents
Report of
governor and
intendant
An intendant (; pt, intendente ; es, intendente ) was, and sometimes still is, a public official, especially in France, Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. The intendancy system was a centralizing administrative system developed in France. In ...
of Canada on
Montreal fire for which enslaved Black woman "
Angélique" was convicted and hanged
Jesuit
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, founders ...
priest
describes fellow passengers on 80-day voyage to Canada, including
louse
Louse ( : lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Phthiraptera has variously been recognized as an order, infraorder, or a parvorder, as a result o ...
-covered soldiers and transported criminals
Photo:
Mauvide-Genest Manor on
St. Lawrence River, built ca. 1734
Nova Scotia governor pronounces
Acadians "proud, lazy, obstinate and untractable people, unskillful in the methods of Agriculture," etc.
Possible war with France leaves N.S. exposed to
ÃŽle-Royale
The Salvation Islands (french: ÃŽles du Salut, so called because the missionaries went there to escape plague on the mainland; sometimes mistakenly called Safety Islands) are a group of small islands of volcanic origin about off the coast of Fre ...
,
Canada, Indigenous people and even oath-taking Acadians (Note: "savages" used)
Reacting to Indigenous people's complaints about lack of gifts, Gov. Philipps argues at length that they are not deserved
Nova Scotia Council decides it's good policy to accept
oath of allegiance
An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges a duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to a monarch or a country. In modern republics, oaths are sworn to the country in general, or to the country's constitution. For ...
from "an half Indian" who is "an Active man amongst the Indians"
Nova Scotia lieutenant governor says
Annapolis River highlands are "of a thin sandy soil" and not worth "
inclosing"
Previously resisted by landowners in its path, order reissued for construction of road from
Annapolis Royal to
Minas
French deputies are to watch for "frauds" that are of "great prejudice of His Majesty's
customs
Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country. Traditionally, customs ...
" at
Saint John River and elsewhere
Council sentences man to fifty lashes with
cat o' nine tails
The cat o' nine tails, commonly shortened to the cat, is a type of multi-tailed whip or flail that originated as an implement for severe physical punishment, notably in the Royal Navy and British Army, and as a judicial punishment in Britain ...
for stealing £3 note, and orders him to return money
Woman sentenced to
ducking after she falsely charges murder against another woman, who gets sentence reduced to apology at church door
Bowling green opposite
Fort Anne to be reserved for garrison officers and "all Other
Gentlemen
A gentleman (Old French: ''gentilz hom'', gentle + man) is any man of good and courteous conduct. Originally, ''gentleman'' was the lowest rank of the landed gentry of England, ranking below an esquire and above a yeoman; by definition, the ra ...
who may please to Contribute"
Regarding suspension of Council member, Lt. Gov. Armstrong is advised "not to be too
nice or extreme in the infancy of a Colony"
Newfoundland defences are so weak that "a
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
of ten gunns and fifty men may take any harbour in the land," and 20 soldiers take
St. John's
Newfoundland survey answers are much like last year's (when stated at all), except facts about
Port aux Basques and its dangerous coast
William Taverner points out illegal fish, game and fur activity in Port aux Basques area by ÃŽle-Royale debtors, thieves and Indigenous people
Capt. Taverner warns that
Innu
The Innu / Ilnu ("man", "person") or Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh ("people"), formerly called Montagnais from the French colonial period ( French for "mountain people", English pronunciation: ), are the Indigenous inhabitants of territory in the ...
(Montagnais) cross in boats to
northwestern Newfoundland from New France every winter to take furs
"Alarmed with the Movements of the French and Indians on the Frontiers,"
New York Assembly appropriates money for fortifications
Kanien’kéhà :ka sachems remind
New York governor that
Albany tried to steal their land, and want him to accept that land in trust
Governor Cosby reports trusteeship of Kanien’kéhà :ka land, asserting deal's importance to
Covenant Chain alliance with
Six Nations
Petitioners want to settle
Mohawk River tract that is "uninhabited, except by natives who are inconsiderable in number" and "friendly"
Gov. Cosby recommends sending
smiths to maintain Six Nations' arms, as French do that and also provide
lead,
gunpowder and brandy
Virginia lieutenant governor
The lieutenant governor of Virginia is a constitutional officer of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The lieutenant governor is elected every four years along with the governor and attorney general.
The office is currently held by Winsome Earle ...
wants settlement
beyond mountains to thwart French incursions and, with control of Great Lakes, to split New France
New Hampshire seeks relief from debt of "long and destructive Indian
warr" and its "expeditions against the French at Nova Scotia and Canada"
Legal advice: reject petition similar to those of
Cabot
Cabot may refer to:
Businesses
* Cabot Corporation, an American chemicals company
* Cabot Creamery, an American dairy cooperative
Fictional characters
* Alexandra Cabot, in the ''Law & Order'' universe
* Leigh Cabot, from Stephen King's 1983 no ...
and
Raleigh "for propagating the Christian religion by very unchristian methods"
Linkage: ship arrives in Boston from Annapolis Royal where sloop from Louisbourg had news via ship from France of great
battle on Rhine River"Boston, Aug. 5"
The New-York Gazette (August 12, 1734), image 4. Accessed 8 July 2021
References
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