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1739
Events from the year 1739 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: Lawrence Armstrong
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley
Events
Joseph La France begins to explore between Lake Superior and Hudson Bay.
Census of New France counts 42,801 inhabitants.http://estat.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.exe?Lang=e&ESTATFile=/ESTAT/English/A17394.HTM 1739 - Census of New France Statistics Canada 2018-08-23 https://archive.today/20120708151636/http://estat.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.exe?Lang=e&ESTATFile=/ESTAT/English/A17394.HTM 2012-07-08 dead
Births
February 23: Jean-François Hubert, bishop of Quebec (d. 1797)
August: Alexander Henry the elder, fur trader, merchant, militia officer, jp, and author (d. 1824)
Deaths
May 19: Marie Barbier de l'Assomption, sister of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame (born 1663)
Full date unknown
Thomas Bird, Hudson's Bay Company chief at Albany Fort
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