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1762
Events from the year 1762 in Canada.
Incumbents
French Monarch: Louis XVGuéganic (2008), p. 13.
British and Irish Monarch: George III31 December 2015 George III https://www.royal.uk/george-iii-r-1760-1820 18 April 2016 Official website of the British monarchy Royal Household
Governors
Governor of the Province of Quebec: Jeffery Amherst
Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Louis Billouart
Governor of Nova Scotia: Jonathan Belcher
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Edwards
Events
November 3 – According to the preliminaries of peace, signed at Fontainebleau, England is to have, with certain West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, to the Mississippi River (without New Orleans), Canada, Acadia, Cape Breton Island and its dependencies, and the fisheries, subject to certain French interests. Spain is to have New Orleans and Louisiana, west of the Mississippi, with an undetermined Western boundary.
Births
July 17 : Alexander Macdonell, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1840 in Scotland)Alexander Macdonell The Canadian Encyclopedia https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alexander-macdonell www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca 24 February 2021
Deaths
August 28 : Augustin de Boschenry de Drucour, governor of Isle Royale.
References
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