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1750
Events from the year 1750 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: 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
1750s: Hudson's Bay Company Saskatchewan River region, reached by trade drummers sent out with goods to tempt the Indians to York.
c. 1750: The Ojibwa begin to emerge as a distinct tribal amalgamation of smaller independent bands.
German immigrants begin to arrive in numbers at Halifax.
Hidatsa villages, site of ancient trading fair, now with both French and Hudson's Bay representatives present each summer.
Births
James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician (d.1817)
Simon McTavish, fur trader and dealer in furs, militia officer, office holder, landowner, seigneur, and businessman (d.1804)
Deaths
October 14: Richard Philipps, military officer, governor of Nova Scotia (b.1661)
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