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1731
Events from the year 1731 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: Étienne Perier
Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Osborn
Events
1731: Fort St. Pierre on Rainy Lake established by Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye. This was the first fort in La Verendrye's expansion of the "Posts of the West".
1731-43: The La Verendrye family organize expeditions beyond Lake Winnipeg and direct fur trade toward the east.
Births
Richard Dobie, an early Canadian businessman and a sometimes partner of Benjamin Frobisher (died 1805).
November 7: Robert Rogers, army officer and author (died 1795)."Robert Rogers". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Deaths
Robert Chevalier Beauchêne, adventurer in New France."Beauchêne, Robert Chevalier" https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055051/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/robert-chevalier-beauchene/ 2016-03-04 . The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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