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1742
Events from the year 1742 in Canada.
Incumbents
French Monarch: Louis XVGuéganic (2008), p. 13.
British and Irish Monarch: George II30 December 2015 George I https://www.royal.uk/george-i-r-1714-1727 18 April 2016 Official web site of the British monarchy
Governors
Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley
Events
First scientific report on the North Pacific fur seal.
First Fort Paskoya built by La Vérendrye at Cedar Lake.
Births
Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, naval officer (died 1798)
Benjamin Frobisher, fur-trader (died 1787)
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