1704 in Canada

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Events from the year 1704 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • French Monarch: Louis XIV
  • English, Scottish and Irish Monarch: Anne

Governors[]

Events[]

  • French destroy the English settlement at Bonavista, Newfoundland.[1]

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Historical documents[]

Massachusetts governor gives details of French and Indigenous attacks planned for Connecticut River and Maine and his attack on Acadia[2]

Account of a Massachusetts boy abducted by French and Indigenous raiders[3]

Massachusetts correspondent on huge benefit France has from commercial ascendancy and number of seamen in its Newfoundland fishery[4]

During war with France, defending St. John's complicated by soldier disorder and desertions and limited support from outports[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "War of the Spanish Succession | the Canadian Encyclopedia".
  2. ^ "455. Governor Dudley to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (July 13, 1704), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 22, 1704-1705. Accessed 13 January 2021
  3. ^ George Sheldon (ed.), What Befell Stephen Williams in His Captivity (Deerfield, Mass.: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1889). Accessed 6 October 2017
  4. ^ "69. i. Reflections on the present settlement of Newfoundland" (Peter (?) Webber, Barnstable, Mass. to Council of Trade and Plantations, February 5, 1704), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 22, 1704-1705. Accessed 13 January 2021
  5. ^ "2. i. Capt. Richards to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (January 3, 1704), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 22, 1704-1705. Accessed 13 January 2021


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